Kamil Zuber

Dr Kamil Zuber MIEAust CPEng NER DipPM is a Senior Industry Research Fellow in the Future Industries Institute. He specialises in materials engineering, coatings, additive manufacturing and product development. He’s been engaged in collaborative projects with DSTG, local SMEs and primes across projects such as adaptive camouflage, freeform optical components for small satellites, heat reflective coatings for automotive, and industry 4.0 aspects of manufacturing.

Kamil joined UniSA in 2009 where he worked in the Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Automotive Technology (AutoCRC); initially on the Electrochromic Mirrors project which then became the Plastic Mirror project. The Plastic Mirrors project was conducted in cooperation with SMR Technologies and resulted with commercialised product produced by the SMR pilot production facility in Lonsdale, SA with over 3,000,000 parts sold till present for Ford F250 trucks.

Dr Zuber also provided a contribution to several other projects including Automatic Contrast Control for Augmented Reality Devices (Gamma Tint), Development of WiFi Controlled Heliostats (concentrated solar thermal systems) and Heat Reflective Coatings for Automotive Glazing. He’s been also involved in the Defence and Space Industry 4.0 TestLab at UniSA, Mawson Lakes which is part of a national network focused on working with SMEs on advanced manufacturing. Currently Dr Zuber is also the course coordinator for MFET2001 Manufacturing Processes course.

Dr Zuber was granted his PhD from the Mawson Institute, UniSA in 2015 and he was awarded the Ian Wark Research Medal for the most outstanding thesis. Earlier in his career, he has obtained the degree of Master of Science in Technical Physics with a specialisation in Solid State Physics at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland in 2008. His engineering qualification obtained at AGH followed by engineering experience has been accredited by Engineers Australia by granting the qualification of Chartered Professional Engineer. Recently Dr Zuber obtained qualification of Diploma of Project Management provided by Engineering Education Australia.