PrintCity Staff

We have a team with a wealth of skills and experience to help you reach your goals.

Whether you want advice on integrating additive manufacturing into your business, are looking to upskill on our postgraduate Digital Design and Manufacturing programme, have a potential future product you need a prototype for, or are taking your first steps into Computer-Aided Design (CAD), we can help you.

Find out more about our staff specialisms below. If you are interested in working with us, please get in touch through our contact form.

Prof. Carl Diver

PrintCity Director Carl is a Professor of Innovative Manufacturing and the Director of PrintCity as well as the Faculty of Science and Engineering Theme Lead for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing. …

Prof. Craig Banks

Academic Lead Craig Banks is the academic lead at PrintCity and is Head of Research and Knowledge Exchange within the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Manchester Metropolitan University. He …

Alan Dempsey

PrintCity Project Manager  Alan is the Project Manager and oversees all strategic planning and operations at PrintCity. Alan works across all of PrintCity’s research projects and supports the development of …

Pete Gough

Senior Lecturer: Programme Leader: MSc Digital Design and Manufacturing  Pete leads our MSc Digital Design and Manufacturing programme in addition to overseeing the postgraduate taught programmes in the Department of …

Gary Buller

Technical Specialist Gary Buller is a Technical Specialist with ten years of experience in Additive Manufacturing. His expertise spans areas such as file-fixing, 3D print production and print room management, …

Mark Chester

Product Development Specialist  Mark is the Product Development Specialist and operational lead on the Industrial Digitalisation strand in the Centre for Digital Innovation Programme. Within his role, he is responsible …

Matt Whittingham 

Technical Specialist Matt is a Technical Specialist working across the Banks Research Group, PrintCity commercial and academic projects. An alumni of the university with a MSc (Industrial Digitalisation) and a …

Nicholas Hurst 

Technical Specialist Nick is a research-focused Technician contributing toward several research projects delivered by PrintCity. Nick was a student on the MSc Digital Design and Manufacturing course and transitioned from …

Emma Rothwell

Technical Officer Emma is the Technical Officer overseeing the 3D printing production schedule, specialising in Additively Manufacturing for textiles. Her role focuses on managing the incoming requests, accepting, file fixing …