Dr Khamis Essa is Reader in Advanced Manufacturing and Process Modelling. He is the Deputy Head of the Advanced Manufacturing Centre at the School of Engineering, the University of Birmingham. Dr Essa holds PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Birmingham (2011), BSc and MSc degrees from the University of Alexandria, in Production Engineering. His research is focused on advanced manufacturing technologies for instance Metal and ceramic 3D printing, Hot Isostatic Pressing and Incremental Sheet Forming. He has been developing novel manufacturing routes and applications for aerospace, defence, automotive and biomedical industries. The scientific emphasis of his research is on material and process interaction. He has been also developing holistic modelling for comprehensive understanding of process and material behaviours. He has been leading a number of research projects funded by EU, UK research councils and industry. His research portfolio has a research income in excess of £12M. His research has been supporting major companies across the world including Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, MBDA Missles, MicroTurbo, Ford, European Space Agency and Caterpillar. He has been also supporting Small to Medium enterprises through major ERDF funding programmes such as CASIM2 and SmartFub. Dr Essa is currently supervising 15 PhD students and 6 Research Fellows, and he successfully completed the supervision of 14 PhD projects. He was appointed as an examiner for quite large number of PhD and MRes students and acted as reviewer for a number of grant applications.