Speakers

Additive manufacturing, Powder bed fusion, Alloy design, Synchrotron/neutron diffraction, Thermomechanical processing

Kenta Yamanaka is a Professor at the Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan, where he leads the Deformation Processing Research Laboratory. He holds joint appointments in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Tohoku University, following industry experience at Kobe Steel, Ltd. His research spans additive manufacturing, thermomechanical processing, and alloy design across titanium alloys, steels, superalloys, high-entropy alloys, and metallic biomaterials, as well as alloys for energy applications such as ammonia combustion and thermal energy storage, leveraging synchrotron and neutron diffraction to elucidate processing–structure–property relationships.