Rocco Lupoi

In July 2004, Lupoi completed a master's degree in mechanical engineering at Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy. Then, he was awarded a PhD from the University of Bath, UK in 2008, with thesis title "Effect of shape, size and material on energy dissipation in Equal Channel Angular Extrusion".[3] From a grant he received for his PhD, Lupoi was able to develop a new technology that dissipates energy in engineering systems against earthquakes, collisions and other unwanted events.[1]

From October 2008 to July 2012, Lupoi joined the Institute of Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge as a research associate focusing on melting-free material additive processes. He is currently Assistant Professor within the Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Department of Trinity College Dublin.

In 2011, he was awarded of a Marie Curie Fellowship[4] from the EU, which supports research training and career development.[5]

In 2015, he led a research program on 3D printing of metal components and reducing its cost, which received funding from the European Space Agency (ESA).[6] With other professors he has been able to improve efficiency of cold spray 3D printing technology by increasing the speed to 2,472 km per hour and using helium gas as a carrier of the metallic particles.[7]

In February 2019, he was one of eleven Trinity College researchers to be awarded of the SFI Technology Innovation Development Award (TIDA).[8][9] He is also a Funded Investigator of AMBER and I-Form in the development of free-form printing of orthopedic implants with selective laser melting, which also involves research on biomedical compatibility of the three-dimensional manufactured parts.[10][11]

He is also one of the inventors of a patented technology "SprayLaze" consisting of a Laser-based coating. Lupoi is actively involved in projects with the Irish Research Council on spacecraft coating systems and Enterprise Ireland on additive and cold spray techniques for valve components.[3][12]

• Yin S, Cavaliere P, Aldwell B, Jenkins R, Liao H, Li W, Lupoi R. Cold spray additive manufacturing and repair: Fundamentals and applications. Additive Manufacturing. 2018 May 1;21:628-50 [13]
• Li W, Yang K, Yin S, Yang X, Xu Y, Lupoi R. Solid-state additive manufacturing and repairing by cold spraying: A review. Journal of Materials Science & Technology. 2018 Mar 1;34(3):440-57 [13]
• Yin S, Xie Y, Cizek J, Ekoi EJ, Hussain T, Dowling DP, Lupoi R. Advanced diamond-reinforced metal matrix composites via cold spray: properties and deposition mechanism. Composites Part B: Engineering. 2017 Mar 15;113:44-54 [13]