Flaviana Calignano is an Associate Professor at the Department of Management and Production Engineering (DIGEP), Politecnico di Torino. She received the M.Sc. in 2005 in management and industrial engineering and the Ph.D. in 2008 in industrial production systems engineering, both at the Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy. From 2005 to 2011, she worked on virtual reality in the study of facial morphology, web-based interactive 3D models for design and training, and virtual machines for the simulation of machining, reverse engineering, and workability of aluminum alloys. She joined the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in 2012. She is a member of the Interdepartmental Center IAM@PoliTo-Integrated Additive Manufacturing and Quality Assurance Monitoring Committee. Her research activity in the Additive Manufacturing/3D Printing research line of the Center for Sustainable Futures CSF@POLITO is focused on designing complex parts to be fabricated through additive manufacturing (AM), on the study and the definition of design rules for AM, and the final surface optimization of the parts after 3D printing.