Dr Sundar Marimuthu, a principal research engineer at the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) has been awarded a prestigious UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship. Part of the laser processing team at the MTC, Dr Marimuthu has been awarded a grant of £1.5m over four years to develop next-generation laser-based manufacturing processes for processing advanced composites. He will achieve the goal by developing two laser-based technologies into fully-fledged manufacturing solutions, underpinning the large-scale industrialisation of advanced composite solutions.

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