Xichun Luo is a Professor in ultra precision manufacturing and technical director of Centre for Precision Manufacturing at the University of Strathclyde (UK). He is an elected fellow of International Society for Nanomanufacturing and a member of scientific committee of European Society of Precision Engineering & Nanotechnology (euspen). He is an associate editor for Proceeding of IMechE Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Nanomanufacturing and Metrology, Mechanical Sciences and Journal of Micromanufacturing. He obtained his PhD in ultra precision manufacturing at Harbin Institute of Technology (China) and second PhD in Precision Engineering at Leeds Metropolitan University (UK). He worked at Cranfield University, Heriot-Watt University and University of Huddersfield before joined Strathclyde in 2013. He has strong research interests in ultra precision machining, micromachining and nanomanufacturing, supported by the EPSRC, EU and industries. He has published two books and more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed highly ranked journals. He won Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) 2015 Ludwig Mond Prize for his work in micro- and nano-manufacturing.

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