Jinoop Arackal Narayanan

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ABOUT JINOOP ARACKAL NARAYANAN

Dr. Jinoop Arackal Narayanan is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA), and a Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the School of Computing, Engineering & Digital Technologies, Teesside University, UK. He is leading research in the area of advanced manufacturing and materials including additive manufacturing, surface engineering and metallurgical engineering. Prior to this role, he held positions as a lecturer in mechanical engineering at Teesside University from July 2023 - April 2025, research fellow in additive manufacturing at the Welding and Additive Manufacturing Centre, Cranfield University, UK, from January to June 2023, and as an industrial postdoctoral researcher at the Multi-scale Additive Manufacturing Lab, University of Waterloo, Canada, from 2021 to 2023. He also worked as a DAE Research Fellow at the Laser Additive Manufacturing Laboratory at Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore, India, from 2016 to 2021.Dr. Narayanan earned his PhD in laser additive manufacturing from Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, India. With over seven years of experience in additive manufacturing, his research interests encompass various areas, including metal additive manufacturing, process window development in additive manufacturing, processing of advanced materials, post-processing of metal additive manufactured components, and in-situ and ex-situ material characterizations.He has more than 100 publications in the field of additive manufacturing, including journal papers in peer-reviewed international journals, book chapters, and international and national conference papers/ presentations. Notably, he authored the first comprehensive textbook on Additive Manufacturing in India, published by McGraw-Hill Higher Education for UG and PG Scholars. Additionally, Dr. Narayanan serves as an editor and reviewer for several reputed international journals.Dr. Narayanan is actively involved in several collaborative projects related to metal additive manufacturing with several international universities, research labs and industries.If you are interested in collaborating or developing research projects, feel free to contact me via email at J••••••••@tees.ac.uk.