World Scientific Series in 3D Printing: Lasers in 3D Printing and Manufacturing (ePub)

Professor Chua has published extensively with over 300 international journals and conferences, attracting close to 6000 citations, and has a Hirsch index of 37 in the Web of Science. His book, 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing: Principles and Applications, now in its fifth edition, is widely used in American, European and Asian universities and is acknowledged by international academics as one of the best textbooks in the field. He is the World No. 1 Author for the area of Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing (or Rapid Prototyping as it was previously known) in the Web of Science, and is the most 'Highly Cited Scientist' in the world for that topic. He is the Co-Chief Editor of the international journal, Virtual & Physical Prototyping and serves as an editorial board member of three other international journals. In 2015, he started a new journal, the International Journal of Bioprinting and is the current Chief Editor. As a dedicated educator who is passionate in training the next generation, Professor Chua is widely consulted on additive manufacturing (since 1990) and has conducted more than 60 professional development courses for the industry and academia in Singapore and the world. In 2013, he was awarded the "Academic Career Award" for his contributions to Additive Manufacturing (or 3D Printing) at the 6th International Conference on Advanced Research in Virtual and Rapid Prototyping (VRAP 2013), 1–5 October, 2013, at Leiria, Portugal.

Murukeshan Vadakke Matham is an Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He has extensive teaching experience of over 17 years in the area of optical engineering and laser machining. In addition, Dr Murukeshan has published heavily in the area of long, short and ultrashort pulse bases laser material processing, micro and nanoscale patterning using conventional and near-field interference concepts. He has delivered over 50 keynote, plenary and invited talks at international workshops, conferences or forums and is the author of over 270 international articles, which include 157 international journal papers, more than 120 international conference proceedings papers or conferences and six book chapters. He has also published four papers in Nature Publication group journals as a lead corresponding author. Dr Murukeshan is also inventor or co-inventor of six awarded or filed patents and holds eight innovation disclosures. He serves in the editorial boards of international journals such as Nature publication group's journal, Scientific Reports; is joint editor of the Journal of Holography and Speckle (JHS) and the International Journal of Optomechatronics (IJO). He was also associate editor of the Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics (JMIHI) until 2015. He also leads a research group which focuses on cutting edge research on Laser-assisted Fabrication, Nanoscale Optics, Bio