Dermot Brabazon received his BEng (Mechanical Engineering) and PhD (Materials Science) from University College Dublin. From 1995 to 2000 he worked with Materials Ireland, a state materials science research centre. From 2000 he was appointed as a lecture at Dublin City University and Senior Lecturer in 2006, Deputy Head of School in 2007, Associate Dean for Research in 2009, and to Professor in 2014. In recognition of his academic achievements and contributions to development of engineering technologies, he was conferred with the President’s Award for Research in 2009.

Since 2012, he has been Director of the Advanced Processing Technology Research Centre at DCU and is currently co-Director of I-Form, the national centre focused on development and implementation of Additive Manufacturing technologies. He has published over 200 in- ternationally peer reviewed papers. His research is focused in the areas of materials and processing technologies and based on the pillars of Additive Manufacturing, Near Net Shape Forming, Laser Processing and Separation Science. These overlapping activities are focused toward the development of advanced processing technologies to enable the improved efficiency and quality of production technologies for the benefit of MNC and SME companies, and the broader society.

Over the last few years Dermot’s research work has focused on powder metallurgy, additive manufacturing, laser processing, nanomaterials processing, and ceramic-metal composite structures as noted in the references below. In other work, laser processing for advanced material surface control has been applied across an increasing number of novel research areas. This has included the usage of laser processing to achieve increased corrosion resistance, physical durability, biocompatibility, as well as unique phase structures and surface texture for enhanced control of interference fit joint bond strength. Surface phase change and structuring has also been examined in this work to enable separation and detection of chemical and biological species (e.g. separation and detection of DNA, proteins, and other biomarkers).