Dr. Sarah Wolff is an assistant professor in the mechanical and aerospace department. Her previous roles include an assistant professorship in the industrial and systems engineering department at Texas A&M University and an Enrico Fermi Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory. She graduated from Northwestern University in 2018 with a PhD in mechanical engineering. She was awarded the 2022 SME Sandra L. Bouckley Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer, is a CIRP research affiliate, and is an associate editor for Additive Manufacturing Letters. 

Dr. Wolff's expertise is in metal additive manufacturing and laser processing, particularly in the areas of situ monitoring, high-speed X-ray imaging, image processing, microstructural characterization, and developing AI/ML tools for additive manufacturing. Some of her ongoing projects include understanding powder impact during the directed energy deposition process, thermal behavior and changes in metal additive manufacturing, magnetically-assisted additive manufacturing, in situ alloying, and using convolutional neural networks to predict for defects. She is also active in broadening participation for women in manufacturing and for international educational opportunities for graduate students.