Dr. Chu Lun Alex Leung is the Co-director of the Materials Structure & Manufacturing group at the Harwell (MSM@H). He works closely with many leading academics and industrialists to perform manufacturing research using large facilities located at the Harwell Campus, e.g. Diamond Light Source, ISIS Neutron Source, the Central Laser Facilities, and the Harwell XPS facility.

Leung's research focuses on the development of intelligent advanced manufacturing using cutting-edge sensing technologies. We achieve this by probing the heart of the advanced manufacturing process to gain new understanding of the laser-matter interaction, multi-phase flow, and solidification behaviour; and then apply that knowledge to design next-generation engineering tools for process and product optimisation.

Current research topics include:

• Materials design for laser additive manufacturing Application of X-ray computed tomography for assessing product quality from powder materials to manufactured components, including defect and service performance analysis.
• Application of multi-modal imaging techniques, e.g. optical, thermal and synchrotron X-rays, to visualise, understand, and elucidate process and defect dynamics occurring during laser material processing.
• Application of AI-based image anomaly detection for manufacturing.