Daniel Omidvarkarjan is a research associate at ETH Zurich & Inspire AG. In his doctoral studies, he investigates the value driven adoption of Additive Manufacturing (AM) in industry. His research aims at developing methods and tools to support organizations in their AM implementation endeavor. These include for instance frameworks for the structured adoption of AM. Further key fields of his research encompass the design of digital process chains for the development of AM products and the applicability of novel engineering methodologies as Agile for Hardware. He is intensively collaborating with early adopting AM companies all over Switzerland.