Heidi Piili is working as a research scientist at the laboratory of Laser Materials Processing (LUT Laser) of Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT), in Finland.
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Cheryl Macleod: “3D Printing Was Appealing To Me”
Cheryl Macleod is the global head of 3D fusion science at HP and is based in Corvallis, Oregon.
Jo Sommers: “I Started To Experience The Pleasures (And Of Course The Pain) That Comes With 3D Printing!”
Jo Sommers is a co-founder at Maker Sense – a maker-ed publishing company.
Cynthia Rogers: “There Is An Opportunity For Everyone – I’ve Created An Entirely New Career For Myself Because Of It”
Cynthia Rogers: “There Is An Opportunity For Everyone – I’ve Created An Entirely New Career For Myself Because Of It”
Banu Kose: “The First Things I Printed Were Models Of Two Pediatric Pulmonary Arteries“
Banu Kose is a researcher and lecturer with the background in Physics Engineering (BSc), Genetics Engineering (MSc) and Biomedical Engineering (Ph.D.).
Joyce Yeung: “I Haven’t Experienced This Level Of Comradery In Any Other Industry”
Joyce recently joined VELO3D as a Marketing Director responsible for bringing their value proposition to life.
Meet The Wi3DP Ambassadors, Part 2
The Women in 3D Printing phenomenon has grown significantly in the few short years it has been in existence.
Meet The Wi3DP Ambassadors, Part 1
The Women in 3D Printing phenomenon has grown significantly in the few short years it has been in existence.
Sol Belén Colqui: 3D Printing Is My Job And My Hobby
Sol Belén Colqui is a young enthusiast, passionate about self-learning and entrepreneurship.
Banu Kose: “I Printed Models Of Two Pediatric Pulmonary Arteries With Stenosis”
Banu Kose is a researcher and lecturer with the background in Physics Engineering (BSc), Genetics Engineering (MSc) and Biomedical Engineering (Ph.D.).
Sara Bonomi: “This Is How The Future Looks!”
Sara Bonomi is a marketer specialized in hardware with a focus on 3D printing.
Juliette Prebot: “Very Simple 3D-Printing Parts Can Have Such A Positive Impact On People Life”
Juliette Prebot is a research and development engineer at Bone3D, a Paris-based 3D printing startup.
Alex Kingsbury: “It Took A Lot Of Courage To Leave A Great Job And Venture Into The Unknown”
Alex Kingsbury is an engineer who consults to businesses on metal additive manufacturing, providing expert technical advice, business analysis, and commercialization strategy for businesses both locally and overseas.
Yuko Oda: “I Am Particularly Drawn To Bringing Together The Digital And Non-Digital In One Piece”
Yuko Oda teaches in the Art and Design Department at the University of Massachusetts Lowell specializing in Sculpture, Expanded Media, and 3D.
Shweta Thapa: “It Doesn’t Tell You Which Machine Is Best Suited For Your Application”
Shweta Thapa is a mechanical engineer, educator, and co-founder of 3Ducators.
Sarah Pavis: “I’m Good At 3D Printing Because I’m A Mechanical Engineer”
Sarah Pavis is the Founder and Principal Engineer at Measure Twice Labs.
Sonette Du Preez: “My Research Will Serve A Starting Point For Assisting AM Facilities”
Sonette du Preez is a Lecturer for Occupational Hygiene at North West University Potchefstroom Campus.
Katie Hardiman: “There Is Currently A Polymer Material Race In The Additive World Happening”
Katie Hardiman is an Additive Manufacturing Applications Engineer at the Irish Manufacturing Research, which provides information and support to manufacturing SMEs.
Dawn Morse: “Each And Every Sculpture In Our Studio Has A Story Which Is Priceless”
Dawn Morse is the co-founder of Holodeck 3D Studios, a 3D photography and printing studio.
Lee-Bath Nelson: “AM Is Most Impressive As An Enabler Of Distributed Manufacturing”
Lee-Bath Nelson is Co-Founder and VP Business at LEO Lane, which offers brands a way to stay in control of the quality and quantity of their parts and products in the additive manufacturing ecosystem.
Diana Kalisz: “I Helped Introduce The First Large Format 3D Printer, The Sla-500”
Diana Kalisz came out of an early career in aerospace, joining 3D Systems in early 1989.
Qurratulain (Annie) Mehdi: “Re-Live Good Times With Some Tangible Souvenirs From The Past”
Qurratulain (Annie) Mehdi is the co-founder of Tangible Recollections, an art & design collective, focusing on creating personalized tangible reminders centered around people’s favorite memories.
Alison Mendoza: “It’s Time To Uncover The Overlooked”
Alison is a Business Development professional with diverse experience in Commercial Aviation, Aerospace MRO, and Additive Manufacturing (AM).
Timea Tihanyi: Rule-Making And Rule-Breaking Is My Focus
Timea Tihanyi is a Hungarian born cross-disciplinary artist and ceramist living and working in Seattle, United States.
Dawn Putney: “I Have Learned Firsthand That Small Changes Make A Big Difference”
Dawn Putney is the founding president and lead strategist at Toolbox Creative, a brand design firm for innovative technology companies.
Lieve Boeykens: “I Believe We All Have To Prove Our Worth”
Lieve Boeykens is the driving force behind the go-to-market strategies of Materialise innovation programs on AM quality control.
Vicky Somma: “3D Printing Has Become The Culmination Of My Crafting Mindset”
Vicky Somma is the author of Blender 3D Printing by Example and teaches classes on TinkerCAD, OpenSCAD, Blender, Cura, and 3D Printing at libraries and local colleges.
Steph Piper: “Printing Isn’t Just About Making Knick-Knacks”
Steph has a background in biofabrication and 3D printing for medical grade implants.
Gesa Schneider: “Getting involved is one of the best ways to get motivated”
Gesa Schneider is BigRep’s Sales Channel Manager for the EMEA region.
3D Printing Works to #BalanceforBetter This International Women’s Day
The theme of International Women’s Day 2019 is #BalanceforBetter and the 3D printing community is embracing inclusion and diversity.
Diversity For Additive Manufacturing Report #3 Released
The Diversity For Additive Manufacturing Report #3 report has been released today, International Women’s Day.
Looking for International Women’s Day Plans? Women in 3D Printing Events Go Global
International Women’s Day is this Friday, March 8, and Women in 3D Printing ambassadors are hosting events around the world.
Youjung Choi: “We Can Cut Down The Lead Time Of Development By 1-2 Months”
Youjung Choi is a designer of eyewear for 3D printing with Selin Olmsted Eyewear Design studio.
Lilian Van Daal: “I Want To Contribute To The Re-Appreciation Of Things, Objects”
Product designer Lilian van Daal bridges with her work the natural and the artificial – or designed – world.
Jenna Margaria: “It’s Funny To See The Surprise On People’s Faces When You Say You Are An Engineer”
Jenna Margaria is an Applications Specialist Supervisor at Protolabs.
Jackie Sosnowski: “My Challenge Has Been Based On Age Rather Than Gender”
Jacqueline Sosnowski is a Project Manager for The Technology House in Streetsboro, Ohio.
Natalie Rudolph: “Every Successful Technology Moves 3D Printing One Step Closer To Our Common Goals Of Changing The Manufacturing Industry”
Natalie Rudolph is the Director of Material & Process development at AREVO, Inc.
Brenna McCornac: It Is Exciting To See A Manufacturing Field Where Women Get In On The Ground Floor
“It is exciting to see a manufacturing field where women get in on the ground floor and pave the way for the gap of women in STEM to be closed”
Pooja Venkatesh – “3D Bioprinting Technology Can Be Used To Develop Organ-On-A-Chip”
Pooja Venkatesh is Co-CEO and Co-Founder at Next Big Innovation Labs.
4 years of Women in 3D Printing
Women in 3D Printing celebrates four years of work promoting, supporting, and inspiring women using additive manufacturing technologies.
Kay Matin – “The AM Industry Is Exactly Where It Should Be”
Kay Matin has served AlphaSTAR as President and Chief Operating Officer since 1990.
Katie Weimer – “We Utilize 3D Printing To Directly Impact Human Beings”
As VP Medical Devices, Healthcare, 3D Systems, Katie Weimer leads the company’s healthcare operations.
April Staines – “Guess Who Fixes The Machines In My Shop? Me”
April Staines is a seasoned technology leader and passionate girl geek with over 15 years’ industry experience.
Christina Guo – “92% Of Indie Game Companies Want To Sell 3D Printed Merchandise Based On Their Games”
Christina Guo is the founder of U-Dimensions.
Eve Tan – “A Majority Of Men Would Be Surprised To See A Woman In The 3D Printing Industry.”
Eve Tan is our Women in 3D Printing Singapore local ambassador since this summer.
Casey Kerrigan – “I Knew I Had To Develop Better Shoes”
Dr. Casey Kerrigan, a Harvard Medical School graduate, recognized internationally
Heidi Hostetter – “This Isn’t Just Technology That’s Happening”
Heidi has over 23 years of experience in technical sales, marketing, and operations.
Beatrice Müller – “One Day It Will Be Possible To Print A Sneaker Of Different Materials Including Textile In One Go”
Beatrice Mueller is a German industrial designer based in London.
Marylou Morat – “3D printing is a fantastic tool!”
After studying design and art, Marylou began her career in prototyping and 3D printing for a French car manufacturer.
Nicole Clement – “Rapid Prototyping Is Clearly Still The Core Application Of 3D Printing”
Nicole Clement is Vice President of Global Marketing and Demand Generation for 3D Systems.
Keri Wright – “Many Are Introducing Carbon Fiber Into Aerospace Manufacturing”
Keri Wright is the CEO of Universal Asset Management (UAM)
Eliana Fu – “Additive Manufacturing Is Changing The Way We Want To Think About Manufacturing Launch Vehicles”
Eliana Fu is the Senior Raw Materials Supply Chain Engineer at Relativity Space.
Melanie Lang – “By Leveraging Additive Manufacturing, I Realized We Could Eliminate Some Limitations”
Melanie Lang, Formalloy Co-Founder, and Managing Director is motivated by developing a disruptive technology
Deirdre MacCormack – “The Importance Of Prototyping To The Product Development Cycle Cannot Be Overstated”
Mcor Chief Marketing Officer, Deirdre MacCormack has gained transatlantic experience with companies such as Panavision New York, Golden Books Entertainment, Carlsberg, Vodafone and Cadburys in a variety of marketing roles.
Magalie Steinmetz & Pascale Chabal – “Entrepreneurship Allowed Me To Reveal Myself In Different Fields, Like Commercial And Leadership”
On one hand, Magalie Steinmetz worked for 10 years in a rail transport company as project leader.
Chloe Kow – “Due To This Learning Curve, We Haven’t Seen The True Untapped Potential Of Metal 3D Printing Just Yet”
Chloe Kow has 10 years of industry experience including more than 5 years specializing in additive manufacturing and metallurgical research related to aerospace and transportation applications.
Melissa Ng – “I Gave Myself A Time Limit Of Three Months To Learn How To 3D Model And 3D Print Something And Whether Or Not It Was Worth Pursuing”
Melissa Ng makes intricate Dreamer Masks and fantasy wearable art for ambitious creatives who want to take people’s breath away.
Sarah Boisvert – “It is much easier now to work in digital fabrication technology than it was 30 years ago. At least now there ARE other women in additive!”
Sarah Boisvert is the founder of the Fab Lab Hub, an MIT-based Fab Lab Network non-profit.
Dominique Mueller – “3D printing today is a very powerful tool but using it in the right way is still difficult”
Dominique Mueller is a Principal Research Engineer at Autodesk with a focus on large-scale additive manufacturing applications.
Kim Thoman – “Many Artists Running Art Departments Stick With Their Own Medium And Don’t Branch Out”
Kim Thoman has been painting and exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area and nationally for more than 35 years.
Malika Khodja – “It Is Important To Show Local Manufacturing Industry The Advantages Of Metal 3D Printing”
Malika Khodja is the business development engineer at Metal Heart, the 1st and so far only commercial metal 3D printing company in South Africa.
Linda Pouliot – “I would love to see advances in the speed and durability of the products printed”
Linda Pouliot is a serial entrepreneur specializing in robotics, based in Silicon Valley.
Laurence Berthoud-Lafarge – “Manufacturing will have to adapt to technical changes, pollution problems related to transport, waste caused by overproduction”
Laurence is the founder of a fablab and “La Fab”, a 3D Printing service company.
Laura Gilmour – “It’s now an industry I’m passionate about because of the promise it has for improving medicine and medical devices for years to come”
As the Global Medical Business Development Manager of EOS North America, Laura Gilmour oversees more than 20 medical device OEMs and contract manufacturers using EOS technology around the world.
Greta D’Angelo – “It was really fun and inspiring spending whole days in the lab, getting our hands dirty and discovering new things every day”
Greta is a multidisciplinary engineer born and raised in Italy.
Jennifer A. Prioleau – “I spend a good part of my time thinking about the potential legal uncertainties and risks 3D printing could present”
Jennifer A. Prioleau is Division Counsel at HP Inc. for the 3D Printing business.
Chantelle Sims – “Look! I’m 3D Printing men!”
Chantelle Sims came to engineering late in life, enrolling in Portland Community College’s Civil/Mechanical Engineering Technology (CMET) program as a 43 year old.
Resha Agarwal – “3D printing has already broken the barriers of traditional ways of design. Similarly, we have to break the traditional belief that manufacturing is a man’s game”
Resha Agarwal is the Marketing Head at Imaginarium India Pvt Ltd. As such, she is responsible for marketing initiatives of the company, catering to a vast array of industries ranging from jewelry, medical, automotive to education. Nora Toure: Resha, could you let us know about your background and what brought you into 3D printing in… Continue reading Resha Agarwal – “3D printing has already broken the barriers of traditional ways of design. Similarly, we have to break the traditional belief that manufacturing is a man’s game”
Irene Healey – “My strengths are coming up with new designs for prostheses and working with patients to develop products specific to their needs”
Irene Healey is a visual artist and Certified Clinical Anaplastologist
Kadine James – “The Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the way we receive information, how we process it, how we work and what jobs we will do. It is happening at an unprecedented pace”
Learner, maker, innovator & 3D technology enthusiast, Kadine James is Hobs studio’s 3D Tech Lead. Combining 6+ years’ experience in 3D Printing, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality.
Priyanka Nadig – “At the end of the day the skill set of the person oversees the gender”
Priyanka Nadig is the Assistant Manager-Materials Engineering at Intech DMLS Pvt. Ltd, a Metal Additive Manufacturing company in Bangalore, India.
Laura Griffiths – “Often the most interesting stories are those where 3D printing isn’t the primary focus”
Laura Griffiths is the Deputy Group Editor at TCT Magazine, the magazine for design-to-manufacturing innovation.
Fawn Medesha – “3D printed homes could quickly provide housing for disaster victims”
Lucie Pertuisel – “It is really fascinating to what extent we can replicate the human anatomies through 3D printing technology”
Manual, thorough and passionate about the realization of objects, Lucie Pertuisel oriented herself towards engineering and industry work early on in order to perfect her craftsman skills.
Wi3DP Releases Report on Diversity in 3D Printing
Diversity in the 3D printing industry has long been the focus of Women in 3D Printing.
Julie Reece – “The consumer 3D printing bubble burst and now we are wisely back to focusing on the fast-growth industrial market”
Formerly the Director of Marketing at Mcor Technologies, 3D Systems and Z Corporation, and having held senior marketing and leadership team positions in global companies across industries, Julie joined Rize as Vice President of Marketing.
Karen Dubbin – “Bioprinting serves an unmet need in tissue engineering”
Karen has studied biomaterials for almost 10 years during both her undergraduate career at MIT and graduate work at Stanford.
Kristel Van den Bergh – “3D Printing is not the Panacea some claim it to be – but the untapped potential is huge!”
Kristel Van den Bergh is a creative intrapreneur with a deep passion for people and technology.
Sarah O’Sell – “3D printing enables rapid physical communication of scale, detail, function, and direct user experience”
Growing up in the Pacific NW part-time on a farm and highly involved in Girl Scouts, environmental and community stewardship became embedded values at a young age.
Christina Perla – “It’s exciting to see a variety of people in different sectors embracing 3D Printing”
Christina Perla is Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Brooklyn-based 3D Printing company Makelab, known for producing high quality, affordable and fast 3D prints in just 4 easy steps.
Nicole Wake – “Although 3D printing is being utilized at many hospitals, I’d like to see it become fully incorporated into the medical infrastructure”
Nicole Wake, a PhD candidate in biomedical imaging at the Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at NYU School of Medicine, is investigating the intersection of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), 3D printing, and medical practice
Sylvia Heisel – “3D printing clothes at scale isn’t possible yet but we are moving closer very quickly”
Named as one of the “25 Forward Thinkers Defining the Future of Fashion”
Tatiana Reinhard – “The faster we are, better our chance to survive is”
Proud to be part of the maker movement, Tatiana Reinhard is a jack-at-all-trades:
Selin Olmsted – “The fact that designing in millimeters can have such a profound impact on a person’s face and the way they feel about themselves is exciting”
Selin Olmsted discovered her passion for art and design at a young age while growing up in Istanbul, Turkey.
Sarah Goehrke – “The more diversity that comes into the industry, the more ways of thinking that are brought to the table, the more approaches become possible”
Sarah Goehrke has been covering the 3D Printing industry since 2014
Anouk Régnier – “77% of girls between the ages of 5 and 10 love science and technologies”
Passionate about human interactions, Anouk started her career in human resources.
Kadet Kuhne – “I’m glad I’m alive in this era to witness […] a sweeping democratization in manufacturing”
Kadet Kuhne is an accomplished artist, using multiple technologies and media in her art.
Monica Smith – “I have the opportunity to see many different applications for our technology and bring my expertise into each industry”
Monica Smith moved from the US to Germany to work as an Application Development Consultant for EOS.
Three Years for Women in 3D Printing
One of our blogging partners, Women in 3D Printing is having an anniversary.
Kasia Wisniewski – “I’m inspired by the fusion of handcraft and machine”
Kasia Wisniewski is a fashion and accessories designer.
Naomi Wu – “My visibility allows me to direct more attention to important issues and other deserving women”
Our Chinese readership might have met with Naomi Wu at tradeshows and maker fairs in Shenzhen.
Virginia Estrada – “Sharing our experiences and working together as women is so important”
Virginia Estrada is a lifelong artist and sculptor, with an extra passion for hand-carving alabaster, wood, and metal.
Lizz Hill Wiker – “In 10 years, perhaps Autodesk will be the new Adobe!”
Lizz (Hill) Wiker grew up in the Pacific Northwest where she spent her days learning, crafting, designing and making.
Alice Caboste – “3D printing gave me a new freedom as a designer”
After studying product & furniture design in London, Alice went to work in Paris for two great designers – Andrée Putman and Pascal Mourgue – on many projects for the home & luxury industry.
Dr. Tracy L. Albers – “Careers in manufacturing are real and can offer an exceptional career experience”
Dr. Tracy Albers is the President and CTO of Rapid Prototype and Manufacturing LLC, (rp+m) a technology company focused on the production applications of additive manufacturing in the aerospace, automotive, energy and consumer markets.