Prof.  Jinyang Xu

Faculty of Intelligence Technology, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: fibrous composites; metallic alloys; hybrid composite stacks; high-performance materials; functional surfaces; multilayer coatings; coating evaluation; coated tools; mechanical machining; materials processing; numerical modeling; surface texturing.

Dr.  Justyna Trojanowska

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland.

Research Interests: mechanical engineering; industrial engineering; production engineering.

Dr.  Katarzyna Antosz

Department of Manufacturing Processes and Production Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics, Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszów, Poland.

Research Interests: manufacturing engineering; Lean Six Sigma; maintenance management; decision support systems; machine learning.

Prof.  Vitalii Ivanov

Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Machines and Tools/Faculty of Technical Systems and Energy Efficient Technologies/Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine.

Research Interests: manufacturing technology; multiaxis machining; fixture design; product design; production planning.

Prof.  Ivan Iglesias Sanchez

Manufacturing Engineering, Universidade de Vigo, Galicia, Spain

Research Interests: additive manufacturing; machining; material forming; robotic; mechanics; design and project management.

Dr.  Marek Chodnicki

Department of Applied Mechanics and Biomechanics, Institute of Mechanics and Machine Design, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Ship Technology, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland.

Research Interests: mechatronics; manufacturing; space technologies; vibration surveillance; machining; 3D printing.

Dr.  Angelos P. Markopoulos

School of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Research Interests: machining; non-conventional machining; additive manufacturing; simulation and modeling.

Prof.  Jerzy Winczek

Department of Technology and Automation, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Czestochowa University of Technology, Czestochowa, Poland.

Research Interests: mechanics; thermo-mechanics; mechanics of materials; fundamentals of machine construction; theory and modeling of technological processes; welding; mechanical properties of composite materials based on natural fibers.

Prof.  Djordje Vukelic

Department of Production Engineering, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia.

Research Interests: machining; fixture; cutting tool; burnishing; tribology; cleaner production; eco-design.

Assoc. Prof.  Panorios Benardos

School of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

Research Interests: intelligent manufacturing; artificial intelligence/machine learning; modelling and optimization of manufacturing processes and systems; human-robot collaboration; machine vision; design of experiments.

Prof.  Marcello Pellicciari

Department of Sciences and Methods for Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Research Interests: design methods; digital twin; engineering design; industrial robotics; Industry X.0; mechatronics.

Dr.  Rita de Cássia Mendonça Sales-Contini

• 1. Technological College of São José dos Campos, Professor Jessen Vidal, Centro Paula Souza, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil.
• 2. Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, São Paulo, Brazil
• 3. Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Porto, Portugal

Research Interests: composite materials manufacturing; composite joints; fracture mechanics; additive manufacturing; machining; recycling of composite materials; nanocomposites.

Prof.  Abílio de Jesus

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.

Research Interests: fatigue; fracture; structural integrity; manufacturing processes; materials; machining; additive manufacturing.

Prof.  Dusan Losic

School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.

Research Interests: nanotechnology; nanomaterials; biomaterials; nanofabrication; graphene; 2D materials; surface engineering; functional coatings.

Prof.  Wenfeng Ding

College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China.

Research Interests: high-efficiency cutting/grinding; precision manufacturing; green and low carbon manufacturing; intelligent manufacturing; machining tools.

Assoc. Prof.  Mykhaylo Frolov

Department of Metal Cutting Machines and Tools, Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.

Research Interests: quality insurance; reliability; theory of metal cutting; mathematical modelling and optimization; statistic in scientific research and quality insurance.

Prof.  Fábio Fernandes

Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation (TEMA), Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.

Research Interests: welding; numerical modelling; composites; laser processing; sustainability; impact engineering; biomechanics.

Dr.  Ioannis Adamopoulos

• 1. Coordinator and Associated Teaching in the School of Social Science, Department of Postgraduate Program in Public Health Policies at Hellenic Open University, Patra, Greece.
• 2. Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Public Health Policy, Sector of Occupational & Environmental Health, School of Public Health, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece.
• 3. Public Health and Environmental Inspector at the Region of Attica, Department of Environmental Hygiene and Public Health Inspections, Athens, Greece.

Research Interests: environmental health; occupational safety and health; safety manufacturing interventions; climate change; public health policy.

Prof.  Qilin Li

School of Mechanical Engineering, Jiangsu University of Technology, Changzhou, China.

Research Interests: brazing of super-abrasive tools; grinding of difficult-to-machine materials.

Prof.  Dahu Zhu

State Key Laboratory of Light Superalloys, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China.

Research Interests: robotics; visual measurement; measurement-machining integration; intelligent manufacturing; robotic machining.

Prof.  Xia Ji

College of Mechanical Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai, China.

Research Interests: high performance machining; additive manufacturing.

Prof.  Feng Jiao

School of Mechanical and Power Engineering, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo, China.

Research Interests: precision machining technology for difficult-to-cut materials; multi-energy- field hybrid machining technology.

Prof.  Jian Cheng

School of Mechatronics Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.

Research Interests: advanced manufacturing; precision machining; optical manufacturing; micro/nano fabrication; atomic-level manufacturing.

Prof. Dr.  Changhe Li

• 1. School of Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Qingdao University of Technology, Qingdao, China.
• 2. Qingdao Jimo Qingli intelligent manufacturing industry Research Institute, Qingdao, China.

Research Interests: sustainable manufacturing; energy management and assessment; energy field assisted manufacturing; mechanisms of manufacturing process; process performance of difficult-to-cutting materials; intelligent manufacturing and equipment.

Prof.  Fengjun Chen

School of Robot Engineering, Wenzhou University of Technology, Wenzhou, China.

Research Interests: polishing; dicing; grinding; precision machining; cutting.

Prof.  Changfeng Yao

School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China.

Research Interests: intelligent control of surface integrity; anti-fatigue & precision machining; intelligent manufacturing with multi-energy field hybridization; intelligent manufacturing.

Dr.  Hernán Svoboda

• 1. Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Buenos Aires, GTSyCM3, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 2. Instituto de Tecnologías y Ciencias de la Ingeniería (INTECIN), CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Research Interests: mechanical properties; welding; microstructure; metallic materials.

Prof.  Reza Ansari

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran.

Research Interests: nonlinear solid mechanics; large deformations of shell‑type structures; hyperelasticity; elastoplasticity; generalized continuum mechanics (gradient, nonlocal, micropolar and micromorphic theories); size‑dependent and multi‑field nonlinear finite element approaches; micromechanics and advanced composite materials; piezoresistive sensing element; molecular dynamics simulations; density functional theory; fractional calculus.

Prof.  Abdollah Saboori

Department of Management and Production Engineering (DIGEP), Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy.

Research Interests: metal additive manufacturing; process-structure-properties; new alloys; process optimization.

Prof.  Guoqin Huang

Institution of Manufacturing Engineering, Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, China.

Research Interests: high efficient and precision machining technologies; including grinding processes and systems; grinding tool manufacturing and evaluation.

Dr.  Olivia McDermott

College of Science & Engineering, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland.

Research Interests: quality management; lean; quality 4.0; industry 4.0; medical device.