Geoffrey Mitchell is Professor and Coordinating Researcher of the Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development at the Polytechnic of Leiria in Portugal. He is Adjunct Professor at the Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering in Mysore, India, and Visiting Medical Physicist Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford UK. Geoffrey Mitchell carried out his doctoral work at the University of Cambridge in the UK and subsequently held a post-doctoral fellowship at Cambridge and a JSPS Fellowship at Hokkaido University in Japan. Prior to his current position, he was Professor of Polymer Physics at the University of Reading, UK, and from 2005 the founding Director of the Centre for Advanced Microscopy at Reading. His research work bridges physics, biology, chemistry, and technology, and he is passionate about the opportunities afforded by Additive Manufacturing. He has pioneered the use of in-situ x-ray and neutron scattering in the study of polymer processing and has most recently extended this concept to injection moulding. At CDRSP, he is responsible for Internationalisation, and he is an enthusiastic supporter of Green and Digital Transitions.