Milan Brandt is a professor in Advanced Manufacturing in the School of Engineering, Technical Director of Advanced Manufacturing Precinct and Director of RMIT Centre for Additive Manufacturing, RMIT University, Melbourne Australia. Professor Brandt has been involved with lasers and manufacturing technologies professionally for some 38 years and is recognised nationally and internationally as the leading Australian researcher in the field.  He is the recipient of a number of awards and is the author of over 300 publications, 9 book chapters, and two books on additive manufacturing.  He has also commercialised the results of his research through the companies he has helped establish.  

Professor Brandt is a Fellow of LIA. In 2018 he was the president of LIA.  He has had a 36-year association with LIA being involved on the organizing committees for ICALEO and LAM for many years, as well as serving on the LIA Board of Directors. He was also the Senior Editor of JLA in additive manufacture for a number of years.  Milan Brandt was the 2020 Arthur L. Schawlow Award winner.