Programme
The AAMS 2026 Abstract Booklet and Programme Schedule can be found below.
18:00–19:30 · Welcome Reception & Registration
St John's College
08:00–09:00 · Reception & Registration St John's College
09:00–09:10 · Opening Ceremony — Main Lecture Theatre
09:10–09:50 · Keynote Talk — Main Lecture Theatre
Hang Yu
09:50–10:30 · Keynote Talk — Main Lecture Theatre
Chinnapat Panwisawas
10:30–10:50 · Coffee Break
10:50–12:50 · Novel & Emerging AM Processes — Main Lecture Theatre
10:50 · Rajiv S. Mishra — Microstructural Evolution During Intense Shear Deformation Processing
11:10 · Joey Wheeler — Effects of External Heating on Additive Friction Stir Deposition of Aluminum 7075
11:30 · Amir Jamili — Formation of a quasicrystalline phase in hybrid additive manufacturing of Ti-Cu combining powders and foils
11:50 · José Miguel Lourenço das Neves — From Field Assisted Sintering to Directed Energy Deposition-Arc-Wire: Preliminary results
12:10 · Thomas Stoll — Eliminating Hot Cracking — Novel Process-based Approaches vs. Material-based Approaches
12:30 · Ben Yass — Laser Arrays for High-Throughput Metal Additive Manufacturing
10:50–12:30 · Computational Modelling & Simulation — Lightfoot Room
10:50 · Jang Griffin — Exploiting oxide formation to control melt pool dynamics and material properties: A high-fidelity Multiphysics framework
11:10 · Konrad Gruber — Mapping Process–Structure–Property Trade Spaces in Laser Powder Bed Fusion via Pareto Optimization
11:30 · Roya Darabi — From Classical Thermodynamics to Phase-Field Modeling in IN625: A Multiscale Approach
11:50 · Qi Chen — Numerical Investigation on the Influence of Material Properties on Overflow Defect Formation in Wire Arc AM
12:10 · Yanheng Xie — Process-dependent intrinsic precipitation strengthening in LPBF 17-4PH stainless steel: roles of dislocation pipe diffusion and heterogeneous nucleation
12:50–13:50 · Lunch Break
13:50–15:10 · Multi-material & Functionally Graded AM — Main Lecture Theatre
13:50 · Lucy Farquhar — Use of multi-material additive manufacturing to produce complex dual steel parts with superior fatigue properties
14:10 · Pere Barriobero-Vila — Transition microstructures between copper and steel in a bimetallic material fabricated by blue laser directed energy deposition
14:30 · Haeju Jo — Interfacial microstructure and tensile behavior of structurally graded Ni/Al joints fabricated by laser directed energy deposition
14:50 · Zaheen Zahoor Banday — Understanding the mechanism of part delamination during laser powder bed fusion of pure copper on stainless steel substrates
13:50–15:30 · Architected Materials & Mechanical Metamaterials — Lightfoot Room
13:50 · Felicity Freeman — Microstructural Control for Mechanical Metamaterials
14:10 · Isaac Toda-Caraballo — Meta-high-entropy lattice architectures: Influence of lattice architecture in strength and damage tolerance
14:30 · Aliakbar Emdadi — Porous Fe3Al intermetallics produced by laser powder bed fusion
14:50 · Dilay Kibaroglu — Understanding and exploiting characteristic deformation mechanisms in high-manganese steels processed by PBF-LB/M
15:10 · Soumith Yadav Yeshamoni — Effect of build orientation on the deformation behavior of additively manufactured Nimonic 263 lattice structures
15:30–15:50 · Coffee Break
15:50–17:50 · Novel Functionalities & Smart Materials — Main Lecture Theatre
15:50 · Hamed Shokri — Texture Evolution and Magnetic Anisotropy in Electron Beam Powder Bed Fusion-Processed Ni-Mn-Sn Heusler Alloys
16:10 · Hideaki Ikehata — Crack Suppression and Improved Printability of L-PBF Fabricated Cu–Al–Ni Shape Memory Alloy by TiC Addition
16:30 · Kevin Khoudi — Additive Manufacturing of Shape Memory NiTi Alloys: Influence of Substrate Heating on Material Integrity and Phase Transformation
16:50 · Silja-Katharina Rittinghaus — Towards Understanding Dispersoid-Matrix Interactions in Oxide-Strengthened Copper Alloys
17:10 · Himesha Abenayake — Probing strain-rate sensitivity in PBF-LB processed biodegradable Zn alloys as a pathway to alloy design for AM (presented by Francesco D'Elia)
17:30 · Nikolaos Michailidis — Corrosion-Fatigue Performance of Laser Powder Bed Fusion and Rolled 18Ni-C300 Maraging Steel
15:50–17:50 · Aluminium Alloy Design — Lightfoot Room
15:50 · Henry Summers — Zinc enrichment as a route to expanding the LPBF processability window of AA7075
16:10 · Joseph Chamberlin — Benchmarking of New High-Strength Aluminium Alloys for Powder Bed Fusion-Laser Beam
16:30 · Piotr Ledwig — Microstructure and Phase Evolution of an Al-Fe-Cr-Mo-Nb Alloy from Casting to LPBF
16:50 · Ali Rezaei — Tailoring The Microstructure of Scalmalloy® via Laser Powder Bed Fusion to Promote Portevin-Le Chatelier Effect
17:10 · Frederike Brasche — Heterogeneities-Guided Design of L1₂-Strengthened Aluminium Alloys for Metal Additive Manufacturing
17:30 · Farsad Forghani — Designing Aluminium Alloys for Industrial Additive Manufacturing
18:00 · Flash Poster Presentations — Main Lecture Theatre
19 presenters · 1 minute each
18:30 · Poster Session & Drinks Reception
Until 21:00
09:00–09:40 · Keynote Talk — Main Lecture Theatre
Chris Hutchinson
09:40–10:20 · Keynote Talk — Main Lecture Theatre
Atieh Moridi
10:20–10:40 · Coffee Break
10:40–12:40 · Beam Shaping & Texture Control — Main Lecture Theatre
10:40 · Fiona Schulz — Tailoring Material Properties through Beam Shaping
11:00 · Bochuan Liu — Investigating the metallurgical impact of dynamic beam shaping in Laser Powder Bed Fusion
11:20 · Jamasp Jhabvala — Beam shaping for tailoring metallic microstructures in Laser Powder Bed Fusion
11:40 · Magnus Cheung — Beam-shaping for melt pool control: model and experimental validation
12:00 · Guillaume Lévêque — Texture control with L-PBF through spatial laser beam shaping
12:20 · Tomonori Kitashima — Single-Crystal Ti–42Nb Fabricated by Flat-Top Laser LPBF: Anisotropy in Elastic Modulus and Compressive Yield Strength
10:40–12:40 · Site-specific & In-situ Microstructure Control — Lightfoot Room
10:40 · Cindy He — Towards site-specific microstructure control in laser powder bed fusion stainless steels
11:00 · Xiaobo Wang — Influence of crystallographic texture and cell structure on tensile properties in L-PBF 316L
11:20 · Jayant Barode — Microstructural heterogeneities and site-specific mechanical properties in additively manufactured 316L stainless steel
11:40 · Zhihao Pan — Laser Remelting for In-situ Microstructural Engineering in Laser Powder Bed Fusion of 17-4 PH Stainless Steel
12:00 · Samuel Taylor — Enhanced necking resistance in 316L through novel microstructure design within LPBF
12:20 · Prithwish Tarafder — Composition-dependent solidification pathways in 316L steel processed via EB-PBF and their influence on material properties
12:40–13:40 · Lunch Break
13:40–15:40 · Operando & Advanced Characterisation — Main Lecture Theatre
13:40 · Steven Van Petegem — Composition-Dependent Keyhole Stability in Multi-Material LPBF: Operando Validation and Predictive Multiphysics Modeling
14:00 · Ilies Bentamene — Revealing 3D strain localization and delocalization in an additively manufactured aluminium alloy using synchrotron X-ray nano-tomography
14:20 · Qianglong Wei — Quantifying the absorptivity in laser additive manufacturing and welding of aluminum alloy and copper
14:40 · Cole Jetton — Efficient image segmentation for metallic powder characterization with machine learning
15:00 · Paulo Davi Borges Esteves — Effect of beam oscillation on microstructural features of Steel-Copper interface in Wire Electron Beam AM
15:20 · Beata Dubiel — Processing–Microstructure Relationships in γ′-Strengthened Ni- and Co-Based Superalloys Manufactured by LPBF
13:40–15:40 · Process Innovation in DED — Lightfoot Room
13:40 · Yingwei Wu — Advances in Laser Material Deposition for AM and Repair
14:00 · Wangshu Zheng — Harnessing active cooling to strengthen and ductilize additively manufactured nickel-based superalloy
14:20 · Maria Montero-Sistiaga — Microstructure and mechanical behaviour of an aluminium metal matrix composite produced by DED
14:40 · Ajithkannan R — Effects of Synchronized Gas Cooling and Mechanism of Grain Growth during Directed Energy Deposition of Haynes 282
15:00 · Folco Perego — In-Situ Microstructural Engineering: Localized Phase and Grain Control of DED-Processed Stainless Steel via Coaxial Titanium Injection
15:20 · Dohyun Jang — Effect of Ultrasonic Vibration on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of L-DED fabricated 316L Stainless Steel
15:40–16:00 · Coffee Break
16:00–17:00 · Extreme Environments & High-performance Materials — Main Lecture Theatre
16:00 · David Cook — Fracture Behavior of Additive Manufactured Alloys in Extreme Environments
16:20 · Erick Ernesto Alvarado Lopez — Microstructural Evolution and Mechanical Response of G91 Steel Fabricated by L-PBF for Advanced Power Plants
16:40 · Farzaneh Zareipour Dezkooh — Effect of laser powder bed fusion processing parameters on microstructure evolution in ABD900 Ni-based superalloy
16:00–17:00 · High-entropy & Composite Alloys — Lightfoot Room
16:00 · Bartosz Moronczyk — Challenges of HEAs/CCAs Atomisation
16:20 · Joshua Berry — Design of Carbide Dispersion Strengthened High Entropy Alloys for Additive Manufacture
16:40 · Angelos Evangelou — Powder Development and LPBF Processing of Al2618–Zr Metal Matrix Composites
17:30–19:00 · Punting on the River Cam
19:00–19:30 · Drinks Reception
19:30 · Conference Dinner
09:00–09:40 · Early Career Keynote Talk — Main Lecture Theatre
Christos Sofras
09:40–10:20 · Early Career Keynote Talk — Main Lecture Theatre
Sebastian Lech
10:20–10:40 · Coffee Break
10:40–12:20 · In-situ Heat Treatment & Defect Control — Main Lecture Theatre
10:40 · George Maddison — Suppression of Defect Formation and Evolution in LPBF Superalloys through In-Situ Heat Treatment
11:00 · Dylan Cuskelly — How to Hold a Star: In-situ Microstructural Control of Stainless Steel for Fusion First Wall Components
11:20 · Hubert Pasiowiec — Reduction of anisotropic tensile behaviour in LPBF Inconel 625 superalloy via in-situ heat treatment
11:40 · Abdullah Aydemir — Effect of LPBF Process Parameters on the Heat Treatment Dynamics and Post-Heat Treatment Microstructure of Hastelloy X
12:00 · Alessandra Martucci — Rethinking Heat Treatments for LPBF Aluminum Alloys: A Comparative Study on Commercial, Novel, and MMC Systems
10:40–12:40 · Novel Alloy Design and Development I — Lightfoot Room
10:40 · Christian Leinenbach — Reprogramming Grain Structure in an Aluminum Alloy: Ultrafine Architectures by LPBF
11:00 · Avinash Hariharan — Exploiting microstructure heterogeneities to engineer Fe based alloys using additive manufacturing
11:20 · Milo Maguire — Feedstock Modification Effects on Compositional Accuracy in Elemental Powder Direct Energy Deposition
11:40 · Marco Bona — Microstructure Control in a High-Performance Al–Mg–Sc–Zr Alloy Through Process and Post-Process Optimization
12:00 · Paul Steinmeier — In Situ Alloying via LPBF for Accelerated Alloy Development using the Example of Ti-6Al-7Nb and Copper
12:20 · Kostas Georgiou — Pulsed-Laser Powder Bed Fusion of 2618+ Aluminium Alloy for Aerospace Applications: From Process Optimization to High-Temperature Performance
12:40–13:40 · Lunch Break
13:40–15:00 · Post-processing & Solidification — Main Lecture Theatre
13:40 · Francesco D'Elia — Controlling dual-phase Mg–Li microstructures by laser processing: eutectic hierarchy formation and prospects for graded properties in PBF-LB builds
14:00 · Alessandro Rocco — Investigation of the Mechanical Behavior of an Al-Fe-Ce Alloy by PBF-LB/M after Long Thermal Exposure at High Temperature
14:20 · Zhiyi Zou — Achieving excellent strength-ductility synergy in a low-cost laser powder bed fusion metastable β-Ti alloys
14:40 · Dong Qiu — Enhancing the performance of additively manufactured Ti alloys via Cu addition (presented by Mark Easton)
13:40–15:00 · Novel Alloy Design and Development II — Lightfoot Room
13:40 · Mark Easton — A novel additively manufactured Ti alloy cheaper and better than Ti6Al4V
14:00 · Inès Crouzet — Role of Zr Addition on Melt Pool Behavior and Process Stability in LPBF of Aluminum Alloys
14:20 · Belén Alonso Rancurel — Devitrification simulation in a glass-forming Mg-Zn-Ca powder for PBF-LB
14:40 · David San-Martin — Alumina forming HEA produced by LPBF for nuclear applications
15:10 · Closing Remarks — Main Lecture Theatre
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