Bradley Deuser is an Assistant Research Professor at Missouri S&T and Operations Manager of the facility and Center for Advanced Manufacturing. His research is focused on cold spray additive manufacturing and other emerging technologies as part of the Protoplex initiative. Prior to his work at Missouri S&T, Brad worked in the manufacturing industry for 10 years in areas of R&D, Quality, Project Management, facility start-ups, and manufacturing production. His responsibilities included: leading Global-scale metal packaging lightweighting initiatives with Anheuser-Busch Inbev R&D and spearheading process improvement innovations with ABI-Metal Container Corporation. He received his M.Sc. and B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering at Missouri S&T where his research was in Additive Manufacturing of Functionally Graded Ultra High Temperature Materials.