Ehsan Toyserkani, Canada Research Chair in Additive Manufacturing (AM), is world renowned for his pioneering contributions to the modeling, simulation, in-situ monitoring, and quality assurance of metal AM. He is founding director of the NSERC Holistic Innovation in AM Network, a pan-Canadian initiative connecting seven universities and >24 private companies. He has published >175 scholarly articles, authored the seminal textbook "Metal Additive Manufacturing" (Wiley, 2021), filed/received 18 patents, and has disclosed or transferred >35 technologies and recipes to industry. His group's research has spun out three start-ups and is the basis for a global standard draft (ISO/ASTM52958) currently on ballot.