Professor Jennifer Johns is School Interdisciplinary Research Lead & SIMBE Research Director at the University of Bristol Business School & Design and Manufacturing Futures Lab.
Her work on 3D printing covers makerspaces through to industrial applications, with a keen interest in the impact of digitalisation on the geographies of production. Jennifer has received funding for her research from the British Academy and ESPRC and is currently working on a project developing a cloud and agent-based distributed manufacturing system, recently demonstrated at Formnext. In addition to academic publications, she has published industry reports and articles in Metal AM and TCT Magazine, and regularly speaks at industry events
In addition to being a member of the TCT Expert Advisory Group, Jennifer is an Academic Advisor to the GTMA Trade Association & Reshoring UK.
