Muofhe Tshibalanganda is a research analyst at the Stellenbosch CT scanner facility, an open-access laboratory providing non-destructive X-ray computed tomography (CT) and high-performance image analysis services. Based in Stellenbosch, South Africa, this facility offers open access to the general user community, including local researchers, companies and remote users (both locally and international). She joined the facility in 2017 after completing her honours degree in geology from Nelson Mandela University. She is now a full-time analyst and a researcher at the Research group 3D Innovation while pursuing a masters degree in Geology using microCT in petroleum exploration. She is a two-time South-32 National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) award finalist for outstanding contributions to science, engineering and technology by advancing the availability, management and use of data for research in South Africa. Since joining the facility, she has published six interdisciplinary research publications from geology, palaeontology, material science, 3D printing to biocontrol science and technology. https://scholar.google.co.za/citations?user=VCeqKxoAAAAJ&hl=en

Nikhilesh Chawla is the Ransburg Professor in Materials Engineering at the School of Materials Engineering, Purdue University. Prof. Chawla’s research interests encompass the mechanical behavior and modeling of advanced materials at bulk and small length scales, including Four Dimensional (4D) materials science, Pb-free solder alloys, composite materials, and nanostructured materials. He has co-authored close to 180 refereed journal publications (h-index of 31) and 360 presentations in these areas. He is the author of the textbook Metal Matrix Composites (co-authored with K.K. Chawla), published by Springer. The second edition of this book was published in 2013.
Prof. Chawla is a fellow of ASM International and past member of The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS) Board of Directors. He’s the recipient of the 2013 Brimacombe Medalist Award from TMS; 2011 Distinguished Lectureship given by Tsinghua University, China; 2009 Raymond Award for Best Paper by the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME); 2004 Bradley Stoughton Award for Young Teachers, given by ASM International; and the 2006 TMS Young Leaders Tutorial Lecture. He’s also won the National Science Foundation Early Career Development Award and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award.
Prof. Chawla is editor of Materials Science and Engineering A. He also serves on the Editorial Boards of Advanced Engineering Materials and Materials Characterization. His work has been featured on the show Modern Marvels on the History Channel, R&D News, Fox News, and the Arizona Republic.

Juliana Martins is the leader of the X-ray imaging group at the Chair of Microstructure-based Materials Design at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (MLU - Germany). Her research focuses on the synthesis of inorganic and hybrid organic-inorganic materials and their characterization using high-resolution X-ray computed tomography. Before joining the MLU, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Technische Universität München (Chair of Biomedical Physics, 2015 - 2017), where she worked on the development of chemical methods to increase the X-ray image contrast of soft-tissues. Earlier, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory from 2012 to 2015. Juliana Martins received a PhD in Science from the Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale (Italy) and a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Campinas (Unicamp - Brazil).