Editorial Board

Lukasz Madej is a full professor and the head of the Industrial Digitalization and Multiscale Modelling Division at the Faculty of Metal Engineering and Industrial Computer Science at AGH University of Krakow. His research focuses on the development of modern numerical solutions for the industry and, in particular, full-field multiscale modelling models for materials science. He is a member of various scientific organisations, e.g., the Polish Association of Computational Mechanics, Committees on Mechanics and on Metarials Engineering and Metallurgy of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2022, he was elected as a Fellow of the CIRP – The International Academy for Production Engineering. Since 2020, he has also been a member of the Board of Directors of ESAFORM. He is a member of editorial boards in various academic journals, e.g., Steel Research International, International Journal of Material Forming, Journal of Materials Processing Technology or Production Engineering.
Research interests:
Multiscale modelling; digital material representation; modelling of microstructure evolution; strain localization; simulation of deformation; combining methods such as cellular automata, finite element analysis, Monte Carlo; virtual metallurgy and materials engineering; modelling of complex materials structure, artificial intelligence, computer vision.

Junying Min is a full professor and the head of Lightweight Manufacturing Group at the School of Mechanical Engineering of Tongji University, China. His research interests include advanced/intelligent forming technology, mechanical characterization and constitutive modeling etc. He is member of several societies, China Society of Technology of Plasticity, expert committee of China Auto Lightweight Technology Innovation Strategy Alliance etc. He sits on the editorial boards of Automotive Innovation and Advances in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Journal of Advanced Joining Processes.
Research interests:  Mechanical manufacture and automation; lightweight technologies for new energy vehicles; precision forming technologies (e.g. bipolar plate forming in fuel cells); interface science in heterogeneouscomponents; industrial robotics and intelligent forming manufacturing processes and equipment.

Mihaela Banu is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan. The research focuses on lightweight materials, with emphasis on developing micro- and nanocellulose composites, natural fiber composites, and associated manufacturing processes for automotive and aerospace applications, multi-scale modeling of materials, and simulation of forming processes, and manufacturing of personalized dental ligaplants.
Research interests: Materials engineering & processing; computational modelling of materials behaviour, sheet forming, biomedical applications

The research focuses on the development of numerical methods dedicated to the modeling, at the fine scales, of complex media (metallic materials, composites, geological materials and regoliths) and to the modeling of microstructure evolutions (metal forming), Multiscale modeling, HPC in materials science, Front-tracking/front capturing approaches, FE Meshing/Remeshing. 
Research interests: Polycrystal mechanics; microstructure modelling; grain growth, grain boundary modelling, full-field numerical methods for materials, level set methods.

Zeran Hou is an assistant professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Tongji University, China, and a member of the Lightweight Manufacturing Group. His research interests include robot-assisted laser intelligent forming theory, lightweight technologies for new energy vehicles, and intelligent forming manufacturing processes and equipment. He is a senior member of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society. He serves on the Youth Editorial Board of the journal Rolling Steel and is also a guest editor for the journal Symmetry. He also serves as a reviewer for multiple international journals.
Research interests: Computational mechanics; forming processes; numerical simulation in manufacturing.

Konrad Perzyński, PhD, is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Metals Engineering and Industrial Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland. His research interests focus on numerical modeling of materials, multiscale modeling, and digital material representation of thin films and coatings. He is actively involved in several scientific committees and societies, including the European Scientific Association for Material Forming (ESAFORM) and the Polish Society for Computational Mechanics Methods (PTMKM). He has contributed extensively to international conferences ESAFORM and ECCOMAS YIC.
Research interests: Multiscale modelling; cellular automata & Monte Carlo, microstructure evolution; finite element simulation of metal forming and thin layers, fracture mechanics

Mateusz Sitko is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Metals Engineering and Industrial Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland. His main research interests include modeling microstructure development on a micro scale using discrete methods, mapping numerical solutions to grid architectures, high-performance computing, performing numerical analysis across multiple scales simultaneously, and developing virtual and augmented reality tools for industrial applications. He is a member of various scientific organisations, e.g., the Polish Association of Computational Mechanics, ESAFORM, The Polish Forge Association (ZKP).
Research interests: Cellular automata; Monte Carlo; recrystallization modelling; high-performance computational models for microstructure evolution, virtual reality solutions, computer vision.