Joamin  Gonzalez-Gutierrez is a Senior Research and Technology Scientist at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), where he develops and characterizes functional and sustainable polymeric materials for additive manufacturing.  He obtained the right to supervise PhD candidates (Privatdozent) in polymer processing from the Montanuniversität Leoben (Leoben, Austria), his PhD in mechanical engineering from the Univerza v Ljubljani (Ljubljana, Slovenia), his joint European Master in engineering rheology from the Universidad de Huelva (Huelva, Spain), Universidad do Minho (Guimaraes, Portugal) and Université Catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) and his BSc in biosystems Engineering from the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada).