Leandro Bolzoni currently works at WaiCAMM, the Waikato Centre for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing, of the School of Engineering at The University of Waikato (New Zealand). Leandro has a background on Materials Science and Engineering and does research on physical metallurgy of light metals to gain fundamental understanding with the aim to develop and improve the processing and properties of light metals such as titanium, aluminium and magnesium manufactured via non-traditional near net shape fabrication methods. Leandro got his BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering at the Polytechnic of Turin in Italy, where he is originally from. In 2006 he moved to Spain to the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid where he received an MS in Materials Science and Engineering and was awarded his Doctorate in Materials Science and Engineering. Before joining The University of Waikato, Dr. Leandro Bolzoni spent the previous three years at Brunel University London working on the development or reliable and efficient grain refiners for Al-Si cast alloys. Leandro received different including the prestigious Charles-Hatchett Award from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3), the Innovation Award from the Cast Metals Federation and the Early Career Research Excellence Award from the University of Waikato.