Dr Gladys Benghalia

Head of Programmes for Electrification Manufacturing

National Manufacturing Institute Scotland

Dr Gladys Benghalia is a chartered engineer and PhD graduate in Mechanical Engineering, currently serving as Head of Programmes for Electrification Manufacturing at the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS).

She earned her BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Strathclyde in 2011, followed by a PhD at the Weir Advanced Research Centre. Her doctoral work focused on developing a fatigue resistant weld cladding technology. After completing her PhD, she joined the Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC) in 2015 as a Research Associate in materials science. In that role, she led industry focused projects, working with partners like Rolls Royce and Boeing, to study residual stress characterisation, modelling and validation in forged and formed components.

Gladys is currently leading the technical development of NASPIC (National Semiconductor Packaging and Integration Centre), driving the establishment of advanced UK packaging capabilities to scale up back-end processes, from wafer receipt to fully packaged devices and integrated subsystems.

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