Dr Panwisawas is currently Associate Professor in Digital Manufacturing at NISCO UK Research Centre, University of Leicester and Academic Visitor at Department of Materials, University of Oxford. He obtained his PhD in Metallurgy and Materials from University of Birmingham, UK (2013), and his BSc (First Class Honours) in Physics (Honours Programme) from Department of Physics, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand (2008). After the conferment of his PhD, Dr Panwisawas has joined the Centre for Advanced Simulation and Modelling (CASiM2) programme within Partnership for Research in Simulation of Manufacturing and Materials (PRISM2) research group at the University of Birmingham from June 2013 to May 2018. On June 2018, Dr Panwisawas has awarded EPSRC UKRI Innovation Fellowship to conduct his project on additive manufacturability at Department of Materials, University of Oxford. He joined Oxford as EPSRC UKRI Innovation Fellow in Department of Materials.

Before joining the University of Oxford, Dr Panwisawas worked as a Research Fellow at University of Birmingham to develop predictive capability for advanced manufacturing processes – investment casting, laser/electron beam fusion welding and additive manufacturing (AM). His research interest focused on multi-scale multi-physics approaches to modelling of liquid/solid reactions, particularly in fusion welding and AM of high performance alloys (nickel-based superalloys and titanium alloys) using an integrated computational material engineering (ICME) framework. Validatory studies with a variety of experimentation such as in-situneutron measurement, X-ray tomography and high speed imaging were used to verify the mathematical modellings. At Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Dr Panwisawas’ research concentrates on the alloy design for AM of nickel-based superalloys using computational modelling. Dr Panwisawas works with OxMet Technologies Ltd on the Innovate UK project “Optimisation of superalloys for additive manufacture using computational methods (OptAM)” to accelerate development of new metallic materials specifically for AM. He uses Alloys-by-Design software to identify and optimise alloy compositions for future AM applications.