Prof. Noam Eliaz is the Dean of the Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering at Tel Aviv University (TAU), a professor and the founder of its DMS&E, the founding director of TAU’s AM R&D Center, and an endowed Chair Professor in Advanced Manufacturing at the Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology in India. He was elected to the Israel Young Academy (2015) and to the US National Academy of Inventors (NAI, Senior Member, 2020). He has garnered numerous awards, including ASM Fellow (2024), TMS Leadership award (2024), Electrodeposition Division Research Award (of the ECS, 2021), IVS 2021 Excellence Award for Research, NACE International’s H.H. Uhlig Award (2010), Fellow Award (2012), Technical Achievements Award (2014), JSPS fellowship (Japan, 2005-7), T.P. Hoar Award for the best paper published in Corrosion Science (2001). He was listed among the top 0.14% scientists over a career period and the top 0.06% in a single year (2024) in the subfield Materials, based on Stanford-Elsevier World’s Top 2% Scientists Ranking.