The Cold Spray Conversation list of speakers
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Dr Julio Villafuerte
Dr Villafuerte is currently Corporate Technology Strategist at Centerline Windsor Ltd, one of North America’s premier designers and manufacturers of production automation for automotive fabrication, welding equipment, and cold spray systems. Recognized by the 2011-2016 Windsor-Essex Business Excellence Awards and 2013-2021 Canada best managed companies’ awards.
Dr Villafuerte is a holder of a PhD and Master Degrees in Mechanical & Materials engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada. He has over 25 years of experience in materials science and processes. For the last 15 years, he has devoted himself to the promotion of cold spray technology. Prior to Centerline, Dr. Villafuerte worked as senior technical director for Tregaskiss Ltd after his previous appointment as Director of Technology for the Welding Institute of Canada. Dr. Villafuerte is very active with ASM-TSS, International Thermal Spray Association, American Welding Society, Professional Engineers Ontario, and Canadian funding agencies, serving in various committees and boards. He is the author of over 50 technical publications and regularly presents advances in cold spray technology around the world.
Dr. Villafuerte serves as Technical Reviewer for the Canada Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Science Foundation Ireland, as well as referee for a number of professional magazines on Materials Engineering, Corrosion and Coatings Technology. He is Adjunct Professor for the University of Waterloo and the University of Windsor, involved in academic and collaborative research activities with these and other academic institutions. In 2022, ASM International granted the status of ASM Fellow for “the development and successful commercialization of low-pressure cold spray technology and for leadership in R&D for developing application solutions for industry.
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Prof. Lesley Cornish
Director: DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Strong Materials, and Professor in the School of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.Director: ARUA Centre of Excellence in Materials, Energy and Nanotechnology (CoE-MEN). Prof. Lesley Cornish obtained her BSc (Metallurgy and Materials), MSc (Computer Science) and PhD (Metallurgy and Materials) from the University of Birmingham, UK.
She is a Physical Metallurgist who has worked in phase diagrams since the beginning of her PhD, and has worked for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, the University of the Witwatersrand, and Mintek.
Her research has focused on alloy development, including platinum-based alloys, titanium alloys, cermets, as well as the derivation of phase diagrams.
As part of the alloy development work, she also works with characterisation techniques, and well as mechanical properties and corrosion.
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Mr Markus Brotsack
International Sales Manager at Impact Innovations GmbH. Markus Brotsack can look back to seven years in metal additive manufacturing industry.Markus did collect experiences in laser powder bed fusion and cold spray technology. Right now, he is working in the sales department at Impact Innovations GmbH, the market and innovation leader in high-pressure cold spray equipment.
Before that Markus covered different positions as R&D, field application and sales engineer for different high-tech companies. Markus holds a degree in Physics (1995) and MBA International Marketing (2004).
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Mr Dominic Parsonson
Dominic Parsonson joined Titomic in April 2019 after 20 years in South Africa, Germany, China and Australia.
Doinic has extensive experience in manufacturing, spanning Transport, Chemical and Additive Manufacturing industries.
He has 11 years of experience in Additive Manufacturing, with 4 of those in Cold Spray. He is a passionate exponent of the value of Cold Spray, as a technique for Additive Manufacturing as well as Coating & Repair.
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Mr Aaron Nardi
Mr Aaron Nardi is the Chief Technology Officer at VRC Metal Systems. VRC Metal Systems is a metals additive company primarily focused in equipment and process development using Cold Spray deposition for repair, additive manufacturing, feature addition, and surface enhancement.VRC works with multiple commercial and industrial partners as well as with the Department of Defense to extend component life, enhance performance, or create new parts or features that are difficult or impossible with other available processes.
Mr Nardi previously worked for U.S. Army Research Laboratory Providing materials science and engineering support for many large projects and working to develop and implement new manufacturing and repair processes for the Army.
Key manufacturing technical areas of interest include Cold Spray Deposition, Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing, Ultrasonic welding, as well as laser and electron beam powder bed and blown powder additive processes.
I also have a technical background in mechanical behaviour of materials specializing in fatigue and fracture as well as tribology.
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Warren Lewis
Warren has been involved with metal atomised and milled powders used primarily for the protection of industrial components deposited by either thermal spray or welding processes such as spray and fuse, PTA, laser cladding and HVOF since around 1980.He has also been involved with the high temperature nickel based brazing market which includes applications such as EGRs and Catalytic Converters for the automotive industry for several years.
However, Warren specialised in the oil and gas exploration market over the years concentrating on the wear protection of downhole tools such as stabilisers, drill bits, steering pads and the hardbanding of drill pipes.
He has spent time demonstrating and training customers back in the 80’s on metallising applications, consumables and equipment.
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Dr. Satish Tailor
Dr Satish Tailor is the Founder of the Indian Thermal Spray Association (iTSA), working as Chief Scientist and GM-R&D at Metallizing Equipment Co. Pvt. Ltd. Jodhpur. In this role, Dr Tailor is leading and supporting ongoing research and development activities and assisting to improve the company’s established Thermal Spray products.He handles all international research projects. The development of new and novel thermal spray coatings for various industrial applications would be a target to fulfil the current gaps. Dr Tailor’s leadership and research experience span a broad range of advanced thermal spray coatings, materials for thermal spray including oxides, metal, ceramics, and composite powders. He has more than 10 years of thermal spray coating experience in research & development as a principal scientist.
Among his career highlights, Dr Tailor associates with the Journal of Materials Science and Surface Engineering [JMSSE] and Journal of Thermal Spray and Engineering [JTSE] as Chief Editor and is also a Reviewer of many reputable journals. He associates as a Young Scientist position with the National University of Scientist and Technology (NUST) “MISiS”, Moscow, Russia; He did his Ph.D. (2013) in Metallurgical Engineering with a specialization in Plasma Spray Coatings from Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India.
As he has established a track record in R&D by successfully completing many projects, he is delivering solutions to customers through novel coating developments and new materials design. He has published many national and international research papers in reputable journals on thermal spray technology. He is an active candidate in all international conferences based on thermal spray worldwide. Recently, NASA has shown interest in his work, and the news got published by prestigious news agencies around the world.
Dr Satish Tailor profile links: (Research publications)
ResearchGate
Linkedin
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Prof. Sara Bagherifard
Dr Sara Bagherifard is holding an Associate Professor position in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano.She has been awarded various grants, awards, and scholarships including the ERC-Consolidator grant (2021), ASTM International AM Young Professional Award (2021), Best Talk Award from the European Conference on Structural Integrity of AM Materials (2019), and the Young Scientist Lecture Gold Prize from 10th International Conference on Surfaces, Coatings, and Nanostructured Materials (2015).
Her major research interests are mechanical surface treatments and their applications in improving the structural integrity of metallic materials, and additive manufacturing.
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Dr Dibako Boruah
Senior Project Leader, Surface, Corrosion & Interface Engineering, TWI Ltd, Cambridge, UK.Dibakor Boruah joined TWI’s surface engineering team in 2022, having joined TWI (NSIRC) as a PhD researcher in 2017.
During his PhD, Dibakor has worked extensively on cold spray technology, particularly on the structural integrity of cold spray deposited Ti6Al4V alloy for repair and additive manufacturing applications.
Dibakor has more than six years of industry-led research experience in materials engineering and published multiple high-quality research articles as the lead author.
Currently, Dr Dibakor is contributing to collaborative projects related to cold spray and thermal spray processes involving Compositionally complex alloys (CCA) and Oxide dispersion-strengthened (ODS) alloys.
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Dr Satish Bhattiprolu
Senior Project Leader, Surface, Corrosion & Interface Engineering, TWI Ltd, Cambridge, UK. Satish Bhattiprolu joined the surface engineering team in 2022, following the completion of his PhD in cold spray processing of Ti-6Al-4V.Post his PhD, Satish has managed multiple projects on cold spray and laser assisted cold spray involving Al alloys, Fe alloys, Ti alloys, and stainless steel. In addition, he is active in the development of new processes like cold spray additive manufacture and powder heat treatment for cold spray applications.
In general, Satish is keen on understanding and exploring the relationships between cold spray processing-microstructure-mechanical properties in a wide variety of material groups and has published his work in ~10 international journals and conferences.