Catalin I. Pruncu undertook an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Paul Verlaine Metz (France) in 2009. In 2013, he received a Ph.D. in Design Mechanics and Biomechanics from Politecnico di Bari (Italy). Then, he completed his Postdoc fellowship at the Universite de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis in 2013. Before his current role, he was a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham (2014–2020), at Imperial College London (2018–2021) and at the University of Strathclyde (2020–2021). He is now an Associate Lecturer at the School of Engineering and the Built Environment, Buckinghamshire New University. His research is dedicated to further developing and validating hot form quench (HFQ®) Technology for its use in the global automotive industry and applying the EBSD technique to correlate the evolution of microstructures/GNDs with the mechanical behavior of material subjected to forming processes and other mechanical/chemical treatments.