Ali Zolfagharian is a 4D printing leader at Deakin University, and the recipient of the Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA (2024), the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Career Excellence in Research and Innovation (2023), and has been among the 2% top cited scientists listed by Stanford University and Elsevier for successive years (in 2023, 2022, and 2021), the Alfred Deakin Medallist for Best Doctoral Thesis (2019), and the Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Fellowship Awardee (2018). He is co-founder of the 4D Printing Society, editor-in-chief of 4D Printing, and co-editor of Smart Materials in Additive Manufacturing V1, V2, and V3 book series published by Elsevier while being a senior lecturer in the School of Engineering, Deakin University, Australia, where he established the 4D Printing and Robotic Materials lab in 2018. He has thus far received more than A$1M research funds, leading to successful outputs in the field of 3D and 4D printing of smart robotic materials, including 134 journal articles, 15 special issues, 8 book chapters, and 6 books. He is currently on the editorial board of Designs, Smart Materials in Manufacturing, and Materials Research Express.