RepRap创始人Dr Adrian Bowyer

Dr Adrian Bowyer

BSc(Eng) PhD CEng CMath CITP ACGI MBCS FIMA FRSA

Dr Bowyer did a first degree in mechanical engineering at Imperial College in 1973, and then did a PhD in tribology there.
In 1977 he moved to Bath University's Department of Mathematical Sciences to do research in stochastic computational geometry.
He then spent several years as the head of Bath's Microprocessor Unit in what is now Bath University Computing Services.
In 1984 he took up a lectureship in manufacturing in Bath's Department of Mechanical Engineering and was subsequently promoted to senior lecturer. He retired in 2012 to concentrate on the RepRap Project and his company RepRapPro Ltd. His main areas of research are geometric modelling and geometric computing in general (he is one of the creators of the Bowyer-Watson algorithm for Voronoi diagrams), the application of computers to manufacturing, and the engineering use of biology, called Biomimetics. In Biomimetics he work on self-copying and self-assembly in engineering.
He is the originator of the worldwide RepRap Project - a project that has created humanity's first general purpose self-replicating manufacturing machine. He is also a founder and director of RepRapPro Ltd - a company formed to sell RepRap kits and RepRap-related products and services.
He has more than 90 peer-reviewed papers and been invited to give talking, interview, presentation in the field of 3D printing. He gained a well-known honour as the only founder of RepRap which become the most widely-used 3D printer among the global members of the Maker Community.

    Adrian Bowyer 博士是RepRap-快速复制原型理念的创立者。RepRap是最早出现的低成本3D打印机。Adrian的研究掀起了开源3D打印机的一场革命。Adrian于1952年出生在伦敦，1973年毕业于伦敦帝国理工学院机械系，并在此获得摩擦学博士学位。1977年在巴斯大学数学系从事随机计算几何研究，是微处理器中心的负责人， 此中心后来转化成巴斯大学计算机服务中心，1984年开始任职于巴斯大学机械系的讲师，随后升为高级讲师。2012年，从大学离职专心致力于RepRap方面的发展并成立了RepRapPro公司。Adrian主要研究领域是几何造型，几何运算，应用计算机到实际工业生产，以及把生物学概念用在工程领域中，是Bowyer-Watson沃罗诺伊图算法的创建人。Adrian作为3D打印领域中广泛使用的RepRap机型唯一创建人， 近年来被欧美知名高校， 国际会议， 著名媒体邀请做有关3D打印的演讲，报告和专题讨论。

( Personal website: http://adrianbowyer.net/ )
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英国RepRepPro公司官网：www.reprappro.com
中国RepRapPro公司西安锐普3D打印机有限公司：www.reprappro.com.cn