Professor Sutcliffe the director of Meta Consultancy has over 20 years of experience in Additive Manufacturing both as an academic and in industry, he is regarded globally as an AM expert. He has recently moved from the UK to mainland Europe leaving his positions at the University of Liverpool (where he remains an Honorary Visiting Professor) and Renishaw plc. His career highlights are,
- he was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal in 2018 for achievement in Additive Manufacturing,
- his research teams project on feedback control of E-PBF won the Manufacturing Technology Award at the Institute of Engineering and Technology Innovation Awards 2019
- he built the UK’s first”classical” Laser Powder Bed Fusion machine in 1998/9,
- he developed fundamental techniques and IP/Patents and licenses for the production of porous materials by AM,
- he led the research team at the University of Liverpool responsible for the development of metallic AM orthopaedic materials
- co-founded and is Director of Fusion Implants manufacturing AM implants in the veterinary space,
- he grew and maintained the AM research group at University of Liverpool for 15 years,
- prior to their purchase by Renishaw he was the prime mover in Laser Powder Bed Fusion at MCP/MTT designing the AM250 class machines
- he led the Renishaw design team developing the RenAM 500 platform,
- he led the funded projects team at Renishaw securing national and international funding for engineering programmes in Additive Manufacturing
- he has published over 100 papers on the science and engineering of Additive Manufacturing
- he has been cited over 4500 times with an h-index of 37 (February 2019)
- he is the inventor on over 30 patents in the AM arena,
- he has supervised and graduated over 20 PhD students and
- he has been an industrial supervisor on numerous projects at various universities globally.