
Professor Sameh Tawfick
Visiting Professor in Engineering and Beaufort Visiting Fellow in St John’s College
Manufacturing Engineering Tripos (MET)
Sameh Tawfick is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Engineering and a Beaufort Visiting Fellow in St John’s College. His research in Cambridge will be performed at the IfM. Sam’s home institution is the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where he is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering and at the Beckman Institute. Sam obtained his PhD from the University of Michigan and was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He studies advanced materials and manufacturing processes. He is the recipient of the AFOSR Young Investigator Program, the Chao and Trigger Young Manufacturing Engineer from ASME, the Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer by SME, The Everitt Award for Teaching Excellence and the Two-year Alumni Teaching Award from the University of Illinois.
Academic/Research Interests
Prof. Tawfick’s current focus is on the fabrication and mechanics of bioinspired actuators and new processes for additive manufacturing.
Publications
To see a list of Sam Tawfick’s publications, please visit here.

- Institute for Manufacturing
- 17 Charles Babbage Road
- Cambridge CB3 0FS
Research
- Artificial Intelligence
- Asset Management
- Business Model Innovation
- Complex Additive Materials
- Decision-Making for Emerging Technologies
- Design Management
- Digital Manufacturing
- Distributed Information & Automation Laboratory
- Fluids in Advanced Manufacturing
- Healthcare
- Industrial Photonics
- Industrial Resilience
- Industrial Sustainability
- Inkjet Research
- Innovation and Intellectual Property
- International Manufacturing
- Manufacturing Industry Education Research
- NanoManufacturing
- Science, Technology & Innovation Policy
- Strategy and Performance
- Technology Enterprise
- Technology Management
- Service Alliance
- University Commercialisation and Innovation Policy Evidence Unit