Ana Rosanete Reis received a PhD degree, in mechanical Engineering from the University of Gent, Belgium, in 2008. She is an Assistant Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Porto, Portugal. The author's research path, has a strong component of technology transfer to industry, particularly in the field of Materials and Technological Processes. She is director to the research group of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies at INEGI. She was responsible for the creation of laboratory conditions, and coordination of several scientific projects within themes such plastic forming and castings technology (as Magnetic Pulse Forming; incremental sheet metal forming; development of high-performance parts, by high pressure die casting of aluminum alloys). More recently the background gained, led the author to embrace another line of research, additive metal manufacturing. Since 2019, she put efforts to create laboratory conditions in the field the additive manufacturing by direct laser deposition and by powder bed fusion (projects based on competitive financing). This line of research, additive metal manufacturing, resulted already in several publications as well as several ongoing PhD. The objectives of this line of research are mainly to explore the differentiating capacity of customization of materials and structures that the metallic additive manufacturing technology, in particular, the DDL allows, the development of heterogeneous structures, multilaterial, gradient, impossible to produce by other processes, and which allow customizing components to specific requirements/functionality.