2024 TCT Women in 3D Printing Innovator Award finalists announced

The finalists for the 2024 TCT Ladies in 3D Printing Innovator Award sponsored by EOS have been revealed.

Now in its fourth yr, the award is a joint collaboration between TCT and Ladies in 3D Printing (WI3DP) and celebrates the contributions of feminine innovators within the additive manufacturing (AM) house.

Every yr, we invite the general public to place ahead their nominations and a panel of judges at TCT and WI3DP have the tough job of whittling these nominations down a shortlist. This yr’s finalists are:

• Brigitte de Vet, Chief Government Officer, Materialise, 
• Cora Leibig, Founder and Chief Government Officer, Chromatic 3D Supplies
• Melissa Orme, Vice President of Additive Manufacturing, The Boeing Firm
• Nesma Aboulkhair, Director of Additive Manufacturing, Expertise Innovation Institute
• Olga Ivanova, Director of Functions & Expertise, Mechnano  

In a panel session co-hosted by TCT Head of Content material Laura Griffiths and Ladies in 3D Printing President Kristin Mulherin, the 5 finalists spoke about their journeys into 3D printing, present tasks, and their views on the trade at present. Watch in full.

Launched in 2019, earlier recipients embody Wai Yee Yeong, Chair for the College of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological College; Eliana Fu, Business Supervisor, Aerospace and Medical at TRUMPF; and Alba Gonzalez Alvarez, Physician in Biomedical Engineering at College Carlos III of Madrid.

The general public vote is now open and the winner will likely be introduced in the course of the TCT Awards ceremony on June fifth at The Nationwide Convention Centre, Birmingham, UK. The TCT Awards is the trade’s premier celebration of additive manufacturing applied sciences, functions and collaborations and takes place alongside TCT 3Sixty, the UK’s largest showcase of commercial 3D printing and additive manufacturing applied sciences.

Study extra about this yr’s finalists under and register to your ticket. 

Brigitte de Vet – Chief Government Officer – Materialise 

Brigitte de Vet is CEO of main AM firm Materialise, after revolutionising the corporate’s medical phase as Government Vice President of Materialise Medical, which grew to become the corporate’s quickest rising and most worthwhile enterprise phase below her management. Previous to Materialise, Brigitte was an completed enterprise chief with over 20 years of expertise throughout a number of industries, main a number of corporations via development and transformation. 

Cora Leibig – Founder and Chief Government Officer – Chromatic 3D Supplies 

Cora Leibig is the Founder and CEO of Chromatic 3D Supplies, a producing know-how firm combining industrial chemistry and 3D printing to make manufacturing extra versatile, cost-effective, and sustainable. Cora invented RX-AMTM, a novel supplies and know-how platform based mostly on reactive extrusion additive manufacturing which permits producers to 3D print industrial-strength elastomeric utilizing an economical printing platform.  

Melissa Orme – Vice President of Additive Manufacturing – The Boeing Firm 

Melissa Orme is Vice President of Additive Manufacturing at The Boeing Firm, the place she leads a extremely revolutionary crew that drives superior engineering options to advanced design issues for all kinds of flight automobiles. Previous to Boeing, Melissa was a Professor on the College of California, Irvine, the place she developed a analysis programme centred on AM that drew worldwide recognition, and resulted in 15 US patents.  

Nesma Aboulkhair – Director of Additive Manufacturing – Expertise Innovation Institute 

Nesma Aboulkhair is the Director of Additive Manufacturing on the Expertise Innovation Institute’s Superior Supplies Analysis Centre TII-AMRC (UAE). She specialises in growing new supplies, supplies processing, manufacturing, multi-material 3D printing, and characterisation for metallurgy and mechanical properties. At TII Nesma has arrange a state-of-the-art AM laboratory, and the most recent output of her crew is the invention of excessive energy and excessive temperature aluminium alloys for AM. 

Olga Ivanova – Director of Functions & Expertise – Mechnano  

Olga “Dr.O” Ivanova is the Director of Functions & Expertise at Mechnano, a specialist supplies firm bringing carbon nanotube know-how to the world of AM. She leads the event of additive manufacturing supplies and identifies functions for these supplies to satisfy buyer wants. Throughout her time at Mechnano Olga has developed and launched 4 new product strains and developed quite a few additional supplies. 

Get to know this yr’s finalists in our Meet the Innovators panel session and vote to your winner right here.