Additive Manufacturing

Anna is a PhD student working at Loughborough University, investigating the use of in situ heat treatments to improve the metallurgy of tool steel components produced by additive manufacturing. She has recently won second place prize in the IOM3 Young Person’s Lecture Competition national final, and in 2021 was awarded Postgraduate Female Engineer of the Year by the Loughborough University Women’s Engineering Society.

Alongside her research, Anna is passionate about increasing awareness of engineering careers among young people, in particular engaging girls in STEM activities and education programmes

In her video, Anna Tholen discusses the role of Additive Manufacturing and it’s real world applications. Additive Manufacturing can be used for a whole host of inventions, functions and developments in the engineering sector.

In this talk, Anna considers the past of Additive Manufacturing, the journey it has taken to get to where the sector is now, Anna’s current research and the research and experiences she has had working at Renishaw and Loughborough University.

Anna ends her video by looking to the future of the industry and suggests some of the incredible opportunities posed by the development of this area of engineering.