Professor Eujin Pei
Associate Dean (Quality Assurance)/Professor

Research Interests

Eujin’s research centres on Additive Manufacturing, 4D Printing and Functionally Graded Materials, and serves as the Additive Manufacturing & 4D Printing Research Group Leader. In 2021, he was appointed Co-Director, Brunel Centre for Digital Manufacturing; and in 2023, appointed as Co-Director, Brunel Design Research Centre where he holds both concurrent positions. He is the Chairperson for the British Standards Institute AMT/8 Committee for Additive Manufacturing; and UK Head of Delegate for ISO/TC261. He has been the Convenor of the International Organisation for Standardisation ISO/TC261/WG4 working group since 2015, working with stakeholders to develop and publish global Standards for Additive Manufacturing Data and Design; and served as Convenor of ISO/TC261/JG67 for Functionally Graded Additive Manufacturing (2016-2020) responsible for the publication of ISO/ASTM TR 52912:2020. 

Upon completion of his PhD, he worked with Professor RI Campbell as a Postdoctoral Researcher to investigate aspects of Material Extrusion for Additive Manufacturing. Subsequently, he worked in South Africa under the supervision of Professor Deon de Beer to develop novel Test Artefacts for Additive Manufacturing. He also collaborated with Professor Mario Monzon to further develop his expertise in 4D Printing. He is also interested in aspects of Reverse Engineering, Topology Optimisation and Augmented Reality. Within the Department, Eujin is an active Member of the Design for Sustainable Manufacturing (DSM) theme and co-organises Research seminars. As a means to disseminate new knowledge, Eujin publishes in international peer-reviewed journals, conference papers, periodicals and books. In 2019, he published a book titled "Additive Manufacturing - Developments in Training and Education - Best Practices, Challenges and Opportunities” (ISBN: 978-3-319-76083-4) by Springer Nature; and contributed to a book chapter for "Additive Manufacturing: Applications and Innovations" by Taylor & Francis in 2018. In 2022, he was awarded by the American Society for Testing and Materials for the 2021 ASTM Additive Manufacturing Award of Excellence in Education.

External sources of funding for Eujin's academic research have been received from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC); the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC); the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC); the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE); Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE); the British Council; and from the European Commission. He was a Co-Investigator for the European Commission's H2020 Erasmus+ Capacity-building in the Field of Higher Education programme for “LeNSin - International Learning Network on Sustainability” which was completed in 2019. In 2018, he received funding as Work Package Leader for the European Commission's H2020 WIDESPREAD-05-2017 programme for "Increasing Excellence on Advanced Additive Manufacturing” (INEX-ADAM). In 2019, he also received funding as Work Package Leader for the European Commission's H2020 Erasmus+ Sector Skills Alliances programme for “Strategy in Additive Manufacturing” (SAM). In the same year, he received a grant from the EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) Engagement award. In 2020, he received a grant from the British Council Newton Institutional Links fund for “Direct Writing of Cementitious Inks to Scaffolds with Complex Microarchitectures (DIWoCIS)” as a Co-Investigator, as well as two additional grants from the Global Challenges Research Fund, Demonstrate Impact Programme. In 2021, he was funded by the European Commission's H2020 Erasmus+ Key Action 2: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices programme for Develop Engaging Massive Open Online Resources for Designers Innovative Education (DEMO). Eujin is also involved in the department's Co-Innovate programme which is an innovation support scheme for London-based SMEs and start-ups to help entrepreneurs achieve business growth through collaboration with the university's academics, supported by the European Regional Development Fund.

Proven Track Record of Funded Research Projects (Ongoing - 2023)

• European Union Partnership for Excellence - Centres of Vocational Excellence grant: "Centres of Vocational Excellence in Aerospace & Defence for Advanced Manufacturing" - AILEEN (until 2027)
• European Union Erasmus+ Key Action 2 Programme grant: "Developing SustaINable Skills for DesiGners in Additive Manufacturing" - SING FOR GREEN (until 2025)
• European Union Horizon Europe grant: "Multi material additive manufacturing for lightweight and thermal management" - MULTHEM (until 2025)
• InnovateUK, Design Foundations Round 2: Net Zero Environments grant - Rethinking Phyona (until 2024)
• European Union Horizon Europe grant: "Boosting the Exploitation of Standardisation Inputs from European Projects" - STAND4EU (until 2024)
• European Union Erasmus+ grant: "Learning by Sharing Knowledge in Design for Additive Manufacturing" - ShakeAM (until 2024)
• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) SSH Connections grant: "Pedagogic best practice for technology-driven design futures" - Design 4.0 (until 2023)
• European Union Erasmus+ grant: "Sector Skills Alliances in Additive Manufacturing" - SAM (until 2023)

Successfully Completed Research Projects & Grants 

• European Union Erasmus+ Key Action 2 Programme grant: "Develop Engaging Massive Open Online Resources for Designers Innovative Education" - DEMO (until 2022)
• European Union Horizon 2020 H2020-WIDESPREAD-05-2017-Twinning Programme grant: "Increasing Excellence on Advanced Additive Manufacturing" - INEX-ADAM (until 2022)
• Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and KTN - "Design Exchange Partnership" (DEP) grant (until 2022)
• British Council Newton Institutional Links Programme grant: "Direct Writing of Cementitious Inks to Scaffolds with Complex Micro Architectures" - DiWoCiS (until 2022)
• InnovateUK, Designing Sustainable Plastic Solutions grant - AgriFlex (until 2021)
• InnovateUK, Sustainable Innovation Fund Round 3 grant - MediFlex (until 2021)
• UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund, Demonstrate Impact Programme grant - AquaSense (until 2021)
• UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund, Demonstrate Impact Programme grant - BioSan (until 2021)
• Harrow Council Innovation Grant (until 2021)
• EPSRC Impact Acceleration Grant (until 2020)

        (full list of completed projects available upon request)

Opportunities for PhD Study

Enquiries are very welcome from those who are keen to pursue PhD and MSc degrees regarding Additive Manufacturing and Design. Joint supervision, industry partnerships and collaborative research opportunities are all very welcomed.

PhD Research Supervision as First Supervisor

• Jessie Lei: 4D Printed Textiles and Applications in Fashion Design
• Jinghao Bai: Human Centred Design and User Interface tools for 4D Printing
• Christopher Biggadike: Leading Engineers in the 21st Century Using Complexity Leadership Theory
• Aymane Sahli: AI assisted Project Management: Predicting Patterns and Behaviours in Complex Projects
• Faten Ezrin Azhar: Improving Communication between Product Designers and Manufacturing Engineers when Designing 4D Printed Parts
• Peter Booth: 4D printing of Intelligent Bio-Materials with Self-sustaining Structure
• Harry Sutcliffe: Developing a Design for 4D Printing (Df4DP) Framework
• Alex Marler: Exploring the use of Fused Deposition Modelling for 4D Printing
• Seok Woo Nam: Programming 4D Printed Parts with Computer-Aided-Design
• Giselle Loh: 4D Printed Textiles and Functionally Graded Additive Manufacturing (completed 2022)
• James Burchill: Improving Dissemination of Radical Innovations in Material Science (completed 2020)
• Lulu Yin: Understanding the relationship between the environment and walking behaviour (completed 2019)
• Thomas Stead: Product Development of Self-Use Medical Devices (completed 2017)
• Jerry Tagang: Designing a framwork for footware solutions for diabetic patients (completed 2014)

PhD Research Supervision as Second Supervisor

• Montida Lertnimanoradee: Upcycling of Materials in Thailand
• Zakaria Monteiro Najmi: Applications for Artificial Intelligence
• Edvard Schroeder: Developing Passive Flow Control Techniques for Quiet Wind Turbine Blades 
• Aine Petrulaityte: Investigating Product-Service Systems and Distributed Manufacturing (completed 2019)
• Milad Areir: 3D Printed Active Carbon Electrode for Electric Double-Layer Capacitors (completed 2018)
• Mazin Al-Wswasi: Algorithmn-based Computer Aided Design for Digital Manufacturing (Research Development Advisor)

Invited Visiting Academics and Postdoctoral Research Associates 

• Dr Bahareh Shahri (Visiting Senior Lecturer, 2023)
• Dr Benjamin Watson (Visiting Professor, 2023)
• Dr James Self (Visiting Reader, 2023)
• Dr A. Uddin (Postdoctoral Researcher, ongoing - 2023)
• Mr J. Gooneratne (Research Assistant, ongoing - 2023)
• Mr S. Kumar (Research Assistant, ongoing - 2023)
• Dr M. Osmani (Postdoctoral Researcher, 2022)
• Dr S. Nammi (Postdoctoral Researcher, 2022)
• Dr S. Srinivasan (Postdoctoral Researcher, 2022)
• Dr Shahriar Bakrani Balani: (Postdoctoral Researcher, 2021)
• Dr Israt Kabir: (Postdoctoral Researcher, 2021)
• Dr Adeayo Sotayo: (Postdoctoral Researcher, 2020)
• Ms Daniela Ribeiro: FAPESP funded programme (Visiting Researcher, 2019)
• Dr Malte Ressin: EPSRC funded programme (Postdoctoral Researcher, 2017)

Overseas Postgraduate Supervision

• Muhammad Kazimi bin Muhamad: Universiti Teknikal Melaka, Malaysia
• Nsengimana Joseph: Central University of Technology, South Africa