Current research areas include:

•  extrusion of metals, powders and polymers,
•  sheet material formability
•  rolling
•  wire drawing
•  forging
•  semi-solid forming
•  light-optical and electron-optical micro-texture analysis
•  coatings of powders
•  tooling design and tooling materials
•  thermo-mechanical processing of metals
•   rapid prototyping and rapid tooling.