**About the Editor**

**Tomasz Trzepiecinski** is currently an associate professor in the Department of Materials Forming and Processing of the Rzeszow University of Technology. After he finalized his Ph.D. thesis, he received an assistant professor position in the same department. In 2013, Dr. Trzepiecinski ´ competed his habilitation thesis, "Selected Aspects of Tribological Evaluation of Plastically Deformed Sheets". His research experience abroad included a three stay of about four months at the Stavanger University (Norway). Tomasz Trzepiecinski ´ has many years research experience in metal forming processes, plasticity, tribological behavior of metallic materials, numerical modeling of plastic working processes, and the application of artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms to optimize forming processes. His research areas include advanced manufacturing technology, processing of advanced materials, and analysis of contact phenomena in sheet metal forming. He is reviewer for more than 70 scientific journals in materials science and engineering. He has coauthored 7 monographs and 14 scientific book chapters. He authored and coauthored more than 200 papers in national and international peer review journals, 96 in ISI Web of Knowledge, for an h-index of 14 (Scopus).
