Priti Wanjara is an Indian-Canadian metallurgist and an expert on welding and additive manufacturing. She is a principal researcher for the National Research Council of Canada, [1] and head of metal manufacturing at the National Research Council's Aerospace Research Centre. [2]
At the age of five, Wanjara moved with her family at age five from Mumbai, where she was born, to Montreal. [3] She has a 1993 bachelor's degree in materials engineering from McGill University. She continued at McGill for a Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering, completed in 1998. [4] [5]
She has been at the National Research Council Aerospace Research Centre since 2002, and was named as a principal research officer there in 2020. [4] She also holds an adjunct faculty affiliation at McGill University. [3]
Wanjara is a Fellow of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute, [6] of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM), [1] of the Canadian Welding Bureau, [1] of ASM International, [7] and of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. [8] She is a distinguished lecturer of CIM for 2024–2025. [1]
She has received the following awards:
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