Large scale research projects within Production Technology have included those related to:

• Laser processing
• EBM: Electro discharge machining
• Machine automation
• Additive manufacturing
• Operations research
• Supply chain value analysis
• Lean manufacturing
• Near Net Shape forming

Significant research projects undertaken within Advanced Materials Engineering have included those related to:

• Aerospace and automotive
• Biomedical devices and implants
• Sports products: polymer, metal, structure
• Photocurable polymers for 3DP
• Metal powders for additive manufacturing
• Nanoalloys & nanoorganics
• Chemical & bio-sensing, functionalisation, catalytic, drug delivery
• Heat exchange
• Heat Exchange under product design and sustainability.

Extensive research projects within Product Design & Sustainable have included those related to:

• Efficient production: laser processing; 3DP/AM
• Efficient products: submersible pumps: Long-life stent design; Long-life rock drills
• Fabrication of functional, crack-free, multilayer integrated circuits for industrial components
• High magnetostrictive part fabrication; Solar cells; superstrate texturing & Si QD
• Energy sensing and Renewable energy

Extensive research projects within Product Design & Sustainable have included those related to:

• Efficient production: laser processing; 3DP/AM
• Efficient products: submersible pumps: Long-life stent design; Long-life rock drills
• Fabrication of functional, crack-free, multilayer integrated circuits for industrial components
• High magnetostrictive part fabrication; Solar cells; superstrate texturing & Si QD
• Energy sensing and Renewable energy

Diverse research projects within the APT Bio focus area have included those related to:

• Microbial bioprocessing process development
• Biomass probe development
• Nanoparticle generation for bio-sensing
• Biomaterial product testing and development
• Tissue Engineering
• Healthy living systems
• Biomechanics analysis for injury reduction/optimised rehabilitation

Dermot Brabazon holds a Full Professorship of Materials Science and Engineering in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Dublin City University (DCU). He received his BEng (Mechanical Engineering) and PhD (Materials Science) from University College Dublin. From 1995 to 2000 he worked with Materials Ireland, a state materials science research centre.  He was appointed as a Lecturer in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Dublin City University at the start of 2000, promoted to Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of School in 2007, to Associate Dean for Research in 2009, and to Professor in 2014. Dermot was conferred with the President’s Award for Research in 2009, Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering in 2015, received Invent Commercialization awards in 2015 and 2017, and the AMPT Gold Medal for Contributions to Materials Processing Research and Education in 2018. He is currently Director for the Advanced Processing Technology Research Centre at DCU; co-founder and Deputy Director for the I-Form Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, and is Director (RoI) of the Advanced Metallic Systems Centre for Doctoral Training. His teaching and research activities are focused in the areas of materials and processing technologies with a particular emphasis on the development of advanced technologies to enable improved advanced materials science and  engineering knowledge to enable improved product and production, capability and quality, for the benefit of companies and the broader society.

Dr. Tanya Levingstone was awarded a bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Dublin City University in 2003. She then undertook her PhD in the area of bioceramic coatings in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and the National Centre for Plasma Science and Technology (NCPST) in DCU. In 2008, she joined the Tissue Engineering Research Group in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, where she led the cartilage tissue engineering faction of the group. Dr. Levingstone returned to DCU to join the academic staff in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in 2016 where she leads a translational research group focused on the development of novel biomaterials based approaches for bone and cartilage repair.

Dr Inam Ul Ahad is Assistant Professor in Advanced Manufacturing in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Dublin City University. Dr Ahad is a Principal Investigator in the Advanced Processing Technology Research Centre, Dublin City University. Dr Ahad earned his M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Dr Ahad completed 

Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Programme and received his PhD degree in Electronics jointly from Dublin City University, Ireland and Military University of Technology, Poland. Dr Ahad has worked in world leading companies in biomedical engineering, Gambro, Siemens and Philips Medical Systems. Dr Ahad main area of research is focused around development of sensors for industrial applications, new materials and in-situ process monitoring techniques for additive manufacturing, enhancement of corrosion resistance using laser based techniques, technology transfer and prototype development. Dr Ahad has participated in seven European Consortia including (EXTATIC, Laserlab Europe, COST Action MP1203, COST Action MP 1401, CEZAMAT, and ACTTiVAte) related to multidisciplinary fields. These projects are related to applications of EUV and Soft x-ray (SXR) in science and technology and assessment of technologies to identify new cross border value chains across four industry sectors (healthcare, agro-food, ICT and aerospace). Dr Ahad is leading two Erasmus+ ICM programmes in DCU.