Li-Liang Wang is Head of the Metal Forming and Modeling Group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College. He received his PhD degree from Delft University of Technology. He joined Imperial College in 2009. Dr Wang’s major research interests include the design and development of advanced metal forming technologies and manufacturing system. His work has made fundamental contributions to characterization and modelling of materials and interfacial behaviors of engineering materials. Particularly, Dr Wang’s research has direct impacts on sustainable manufacturing, e.g., Hot stamping of Aluminum alloy (International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture 87, 39-48); Data sciences in metal forming (Nat. Commun., 2022, 13: 5748,); novel lightweight forming technology: FAST (Int. J. Plast., 2019, 119: 230-248); Tribology in metal forming (Friction 10 (6), 911-926) and innovative material characterization techniques (Addit. Manuf. 2021, 37: 101720).