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Full Professor and Chair of Additive Manufacturing
Director of the Centre for Engineering Innovation and Research (CEIR)
Research Group Lead for Additive Manufacturing of Functional Materials (AMFM)
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Appointed Member of the ‘AMT/8 Additive Manufacturing’ BSI standards development committee
Arun Arjunan is the Director of the Centre for Engineering Innovation and Research (CEIR) at the University of Wolverhampton. He also leads the Additive Manufacturing of Functional Materials (AMFM) research group. Prior to that, he was a Reader, Senior Lecturer, Lecturer, and Course Leader in mechanical engineering at the same university. He obtained his PhD on a fully-funded research scholarship at the interface of structural mechanics, vibro-acoustics, and numerical modelling. As a result of his innovative pedagogic practices and research lead teaching, Arun was recognised as the Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) in 2015.
Arun leads the Additive Manufacturing of Functional Materials (AMFM) research group, which is focused on developing multifunctional materials that can be additively manufactured (3D printed) for on-demand problem-solving. The research group is composed of interdisciplinary academic specialists, post-docs, research technicians and PhD students. Arun’s research specialises in the development of advanced additive manufacturing techniques for the fabrication of metamaterials with unprecedented or rare mechanical, auxetic, acoustic, or biological properties. He has made numerous contributions in meta-biomaterials used in the context of bone tissue regeneration, implant performance and decreasing the risk of implant-associated infections. His interest in metamaterial has also led to the development of the Herschel Quincke-Arjunan waveguides for passive noise cancellation. Arun actively supervises PhD students, publishes in leading research journals, and has his research funded by numerous research grants including from the UK Department of Transport (DfT), European Union, and Industrial Partnerships.
Arun was appointed as a member of the ‘AMT/8 Additive Manufacturing’ BSI standards development committee in 2020. The committee is responsible for developing ISO standards to support innovative advancements within additive manufacturing processes relevant to the UK industry and input into the international additive manufacturing standards committee ISO/TC 261 and the European additive manufacturing standards committee CEN/TC 438. He is also an external examiner (2016-2020) for the University of Greenwich and serves as a Reviewer and Panel Member for the British Research Council. He won the GKN award in 2011, the Vice chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Research in 2020 and UK Engineering Innovation Awards in 2021. He was also nominated for the 2019 and 2020 ‘Blavatnik Awards in the United Kingdom’ and was THE ENGINEER UK Collaborate to Innovate Finalist for the research on 3D smart swabs for COVID-19 sample collection. He has served on international advisory committees, review panels of funding agencies, and as a member of award committees.
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01R19P03464
2019-1-UK01-KA203-062066
32R19P03053
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