**Giovanni Bruno**

Giovanni Bruno studied Nuclear Engineering then Physics at the University of Bologna, Italy. He obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Science at the University of Ancona, Italy, working on residual stress analysis in welds of several metallic alloys. He worked as a Post-Doctorate researcher in the UK, in Germany, and in France. He then moved on to industry (Corning Incorporated), where he worked first as the head of the Physical, Mechanical and Structural Characterization Group in France and then as a project leader in the United States.

As of 2012, he became head of the Division 8.5 Micro NDT at BAM (Berlin, D) and professor at the University of Potsdam (D). His research is focused on the use of microstructural investigations (in particular by X-ray computed tomography) and the determination of residual stress and mechanical properties to assess the performance and damage mechanisms of composites, metallic alloys (in particular additively manufactured materials), and ceramics.
