Jérôme Rascol is Head of the Additive Layer Manufacturing Platform since mid-2015.  His mission is to ensure a fast and pragmatic implementation of ALM technologies as future state of the art technologies for Airbus aircraft families.

Jérôme started his career in 1987 in the US in micro-electronics materials R&T, contributing to the development of a new generation of solid state microwave semi-conductors devices.

In the 90ies, he joined Aerospatiale design office in the field of systems. He led the new world-wide Air Traffic Management system development and implementation on Airbus aircraft families until certification. At this occasion, he developed a new generation of avionics architecture to become the state of the art on the A380 Program.

In 2000, Jérôme joined the A400M Program organization to lead the overall tests and facilities development including flight tests.

Early 2009, he joined the A350XWB Program organization. He led the overall aircraft systems integration tests and facilities development including flight tests preparation, until certification then entry into service of the first customer aircraft.

Jérôme holds an Engineering Degree in Materials Physics and a PhD in Solid State Physics. 

For more 25 years, Gilles Surdon is in charge of development of manufacturing processes and numerical simulation applying on metallic and composite materials in he Advanced Technologies Development Center of Dassault Aviation, located at Merignac.

Guy Larnac begun his career at Aerospatiale working on the development of thermo-structural protection system for Hermes shuttle and ram jet project.

He then took the direction of the material lab where all materials and processes are developed for space and civil and military launchers applications.

Since 2012 he is in charge, for Ariane Group, of the coordination of the materials, structures and industrialization domain for the R&T. He is managing the strategic roadmaps and the implementation of cooperation in this domain.

He is also member of the strategic activity domain dedicated to materials in the Aerospace Valley competitivity cluster where is in charge of managing the additive manufacturing roadmap.

David Wimpenny, Chief Technologist, has been involved in AM research for 30 years, establishing Additive Manufacturing research groups at both Warwick and DeMontfort Universities before joining the newly constructed Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry in 2011, where he set-up the Net Shape and Additive Manufacturing research theme which has grown to be one of the largest activities in the MTC, driven by demand from some of the world’s leading industrial organisations. In 2014 the MTC was awarded the status as the National Centre for Additive Manufacturing which has the largest array of AM equipment in Europe.  David, sits on the UKs AM strategy committee and is the author of over 90 publication in the field of AM and is an honorary professor at Nottingham University

Mariangela Lombardi is Associate professor in Material Science and Technology at Politecnico di Torino (Italy). She holds a PhD degree in Materials Science and Technology from Politecnico di Torino and INSA (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées) of Lyon (2009). She gained experience in the field of material research over the last 10 years. She is involved in about 12 Regional, National or European projects focused on materials development and optimization, characterization and testing. She was involved in applied research in the field of materials concerning: the elaboration of dense and porous materials for environmental or biomedical applications and their mechanical characterization; the characterization of nanocomposite oxide ceramic powders, studying the influence of the phase transformation on the final microstructure of the components, and of pure and substituted nanostructured hydroxyapatite powders, evaluating their thermal stability; the preparation and characterization of polymer-based composites, containing ceramic fillers able to influence their thermal or functional behavior; the characterization of metallic samples prepared through additive manufacturing technologies, in order to evaluate the relationship among thermal treatments, microstructures and final properties. These research activities were carried out in the frame of scientific collaborations with universities, such as INSA of Lyon, MIT, EPFL, the University of Rome Tor Vergata, the AGH University of Science and Technology, and in the frame of partnerships with GE Avio, ENI, PRIMA INDUSTRIE, ENEL. She is Author of about 100 papers, including publications on international papers and international conference proceedings, in the areas of material science and engineering.

Haize Galarraga is a Mechanical Engineer from the University of the Basque Country (2005) and a Materials Engineer from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (USA) (2016). He is a researcher with more than 10 years of experience in the technical-scientific development of research projects of national and international scope in the area of ​​metal components manufacturing, as well as in technological services to companies. He specialized in Additive manufacturing during his stay in the United States where he worked as a researcher in the "Integrative material design Center" of the WPI in collaboration with the Oak Ridge National Labs and published several articles related to additive manufacturing in powder bed fusion (PBF) and direct energy deposition (DED). Within this scope, he has given international conferences, given courses and participated in round tables in congresses. Since 2018, he has been responsible of additive manufacturing in the Industry and Transport Division in Tecnalia, where he coordinates the actions related to this field. He is a member of the board of directors of Addimat (Spanish Association of Additive Manufacturing Technologies), and member of the Additive Manufacturing Node of the Basque Digital Industry Hub and AMplatform (European Platform for Additive Manufacturing).