We are Bright

Brightening the path for future heroes in technology. We are a talent incubator nurturing a unique group of PhDs by giving them space to flourish; along with building a Bright society that cares about the world.

Federico Forni

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    Joined us on September 1, 2018

  • PHD

    Signal processing

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  • Thesis

    Indoor optical network technologies for multiple services provisioning
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Behnam Asadi

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    Joined us on July 1, 2017

  • PHD

    Mechanical Engineering

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  • Thesis

    Event-triggered control for linear systems with performance and rate guarantees
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Jorick van 't Oever

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    Joined us on August 1, 2016

  • PHD

    Applied Physics, Optical Sciences

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  • Thesis

    On the interaction of waves carrying light, sound and small particles: wave-based methods for miniature laboratories and fast optical sensing
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Mirella Haartmans

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    Joined us on February 1, 2024

  • PHD

    PHD Candidate Biomedical Sciences at Maastricht University

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  • Thesis

    Biomarkers in cartilage repair and osteoarthritis
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Jibbe Soetens

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    Joined us on April 1, 2019

  • PHD

    Biomedical engineering

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  • Thesis

    Mechanical and biochemical response of human skin to diverse loading conditions
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Marilia Zorzato

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    Joined us on June 17, 2019

  • PHD

    Materials Scientist

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Matteo Madonia

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    Joined us on February 1, 2022

  • PHD

    PhD Student Applied Physics (Fluids & Flows Group) @ Eindhoven University of Technology

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  • Thesis

    Laboratory study of rotation-dominated convective turbulence
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Celien Jacobs

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    Joined us on February 1, 2024

  • PHD

    Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology

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  • Thesis

    A biomimetic artificial cervical disc replacement: biomaterial and biomechanical design characterization
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Johan Smeets

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    Joined us on September 1, 2016

  • PHD

    Electrical Engineering, Electromechanics and Power Electronics

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  • Thesis

    Contactless transfer of energy: 3D modeling and design of a position-independent inductive coupling integrated in a planar motor
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Nadia Salman

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    Joined us on January 4, 2021

  • PHD

    PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds

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Priyam Samantray

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    Joined us on May 1, 2019

  • PHD

    Multiscale modelling of the thermo-hygro-mechanical behavior of sheets of paper

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  • Thesis

    Multiscale modeling of the hygro-mechanical response of paper sheets
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Mario Coppola

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    Joined us on February 15, 2021

  • PHD

    Space Systems Engineering, TU Delft

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  • Thesis

    Automatic Design of Verifiable Robot Swarms
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Jeroen Janssen

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    Joined us on February 1, 2016

  • PHD

    Electrical Engineering, Electromechanics

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  • Thesis

    Extended analytical charge modeling for permanentmagnet based devices: practical application to the interactions in a vibration isolation system
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Isaac Guerra

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    Joined us on January 1, 2018

  • PHD

    Mechanical Engineering, Control and Dynamics

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  • Thesis

    Almost PhD!
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Debashish Saha

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    Joined us on November 16, 2015

  • PHD

    Applied Physics, Fluid Dynamics

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  • Thesis

    Experimental analysis of aggregate breakup in flows observed by three dimensional particle tracking velocimetry
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Melkamu Mekicha

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    Joined us on July 1, 2020

  • PHD

    PhD in Tribology & Surface Technology, TU Twente

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  • Thesis

    Wear Particles Formation In Cold Rolling
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Ahmed Elkholy

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    Joined us on March 22, 2018

  • PHD

    Mechanical Engineering, Multiphase and Reactive Flows

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  • Thesis

    Development of non-thermal DBD microplasma reactor for combustion applications
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Aromal Vasavan

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    Joined us on November 1, 2018

  • PHD

    Simulation of flow and heat transfer

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  • Thesis

    Numerical modeling of igniting non-premixed combustion systems using FGM
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Jos Hendrikx

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    Joined us on July 9, 2015

  • PHD

    Rheumatology

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  • Thesis

    Personalized management of Rheumatoid Arthritis: using PROMs for monitoring of disease activity
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Anna Nikiel

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    Joined us on August 1, 2017

  • PHD

    Physics

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Valentina Caprara Vivoli

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    Joined us on February 1, 2018

  • PHD

    Engineering Physics /Applied Physics

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  • Thesis

    Revealing entanglement and nonlocality in few photon states
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Hadi Yagubizade

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    Joined us on October 1, 2014

  • PHD

    Micro Electromechanical Engineering

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  • Thesis

    PZT-on-silicon RF-MEMS Lamb wave resonators and filters
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Bartu Simsek

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    Joined us on February 1, 2023

  • PHD

    Doctor of Philosophy, Material Science and Nanotechnology

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  • Thesis

    Almost PhD!
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Yigit Akargün

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    Joined us on June 1, 2019

  • PHD

    Mechanical Engineering, TU/e

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  • Thesis

    Almost PhD!
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Ann-Sophie Farle

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    Joined us on May 1, 2017

  • PHD

    Materials Science

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Eline Kolken

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    Joined us on October 1, 2021

  • PHD

    Biomedical Engineering TU/e

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  • Thesis

    Poisson meets Escher: Exploring the Poisson effect in bone implant design
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Riaan Zoetmulder

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    Joined us on January 6, 2024

  • PHD

    Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Medical Image Analysis/Computer Vision at University Amsterdam

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  • Thesis

    Deep-Learning-Based Image Segmentation for Uncommon Ischemic Stroke: From Infants to Adults
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Jacob-Jan Sloots

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    Joined us on August 1, 2021

  • PHD

    Biomedical Engineering, University Medical Center Utrecht

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Maaike Schotman

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    Joined us on February 1, 2024

  • PHD

    Biomedical Materials and Chemistry

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  • Thesis

    Supramolecular injectable hydrogels for local cardiac therapy
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Jaap Kokorian

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    Joined us on February 1, 2017

  • PHD

    Contact Mechanics

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  • Thesis

    Measuring adhesion and friction in mems
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Antonios Zagaris

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    Joined us on November 1, 2017

  • PHD

    Mathematics

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  • Thesis

    Analysis of reduction methods for multiscale problems
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Ashley Heuijerjans

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    Joined us on February 4, 2019

  • PHD

    Biomedical Engineering

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  • Thesis

    Towards understanding of cartilage damage development around focal defects and implants
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Midas Meijs

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    Joined us on November 4, 2019

  • PHD

    PhD in medical image analysis and deep learning, Radboud University Medical Centre Nijmegen

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  • Thesis

    Automated Image Analysis and Machine Learning to Detect Cerebral Vascular Pathology in 4D-CTA
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Saskia Derkx

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    Joined us on September 5, 2022

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Thomas Blanken

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    Joined us on July 17, 2019

  • PHD

    Mechanical Engineering TU Eindhoven

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  • Thesis

    Model-based estimation and control of the particle distribution and discharge supervision in nuclear fusion reactors
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Cansu Karakaya

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    Joined us on March 1, 2024

  • PHD

    PhD Candidate in Biomedical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology

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Oleg Matveichuk

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    Joined us on January 19, 2015

  • PHD

    Physics

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  • Thesis

    Constitutive modeling of concentrated solutions of main-chain liquid crystalline polymers
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Renate Boekhoven

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    Joined us on May 18, 2015

  • PHD

    Biomedical / Medical Engineering

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  • Thesis

    Mechanical characterisation of healthy and diseased carotid arteries using ultrasound
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Emre Burak Ozkan

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Mohammad Hasani

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    Joined us on October 9, 2023

  • PHD

    PhD Plasma Physics

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  • Thesis

    Towards Plasma Charging Visualization
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Reinier Kuppens

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    Joined us on December 1, 2020

  • PHD

    Mechanical Engineering, TU Delft

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  • Thesis

    Energy Invariant Mechanisms
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Milad Mokhtari

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    Joined us on July 1, 2016

  • PHD

    Mechanical Engineering

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  • Thesis

    The effect of a tribo-modified surface layer on friction in elastomer contacts
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Amin Ebrahimi

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    Joined us on September 18, 2023

  • PHD

    Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering | Materials Science and Engineering

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  • Thesis

    Molten Metal Oscillatory Behaviour in Advanced Fusion-based Manufacturing Processes
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Qi Wang

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    Joined us on January 1, 2019

  • PHD

    Active Material Structure and Smart Actuators

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  • Thesis

    Modeling, design and optimization of flapping wings for efficient hovering flighth.
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Jessica van der Leij

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    Joined us on September 1, 2021

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Nik Dave

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    Joined us on January 9, 2023

  • PHD

    Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical , Technische Universiteit Eindhoven

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  • Thesis

    Almost PhD!
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John Asaad

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Chidozie Onwudinanti

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    Joined us on October 18, 2021

  • PHD

    Computational material science at DIFFER (Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research)

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  • Thesis

    On hydrogen penetration into ruthenium
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Bo Shi

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    Joined us on February 1, 2015

  • PHD

    Physics, Strongly Correlated Electron Systems

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  • Thesis

    Coherent X-ray scattering of charge order dynamics and phase separation in titanates
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Anastasiia Panfilova

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    Joined us on September 1, 2021

  • PHD

    Biomedical Engineering TU/e

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  • Thesis

    Nonlinear Ultrasound for Cancer Diagnostics
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Elif Ozturk

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Julien van Kuilenburg

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    Joined us on July 1, 2017

  • PHD

    Mechanical Engineering, Tribology

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  • Thesis

    A mechanistic approach to tactile friction
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Sami Khan

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Björne Mollet

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    Joined us on May 1, 2017

  • PHD

    Biomedical Engineering

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  • Thesis

    Supramolecular biomaterials based on ureido-pyrimidinones: development of a synthetic basement membrane for a bioartificial kidney
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Mariya Neklyudova

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    Joined us on March 1, 2018

  • PHD

    Physics, Nanoscience

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  • Thesis

    In situ TEM electrical measurements of semiconductor and metal nanowires
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Kees Kuijpers

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    Joined us on August 14, 2017

  • PHD

    Applied Physics, Materials Science

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  • Thesis

    Dynamics of fluid mixtures and nano-particles during capillary suction
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Arjen Baarsma

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    Joined us on April 1, 2019

  • PHD

    Differential geometry and deformation theory

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  • Thesis

    Deformations and L∞-algebras of Fréchet type
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Martin Borchert

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    Joined us on March 1, 2024

  • PHD

    Ultrafast optical, XUV/EUV & soft X-ray magnetism & laser physics at the University of Berlin

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  • Thesis

    Order from Chaos: Accessing magnetic order with a randomly polarised laser-driven plasma soft-X-ray source
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Ariane Mulder-van Spreeuwel

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    Joined us on May 1, 2017

  • PHD

    Biomedical Engineering

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  • Thesis

    Myocardium in a dish: The influence of cellular and extracellular perturbations on cardiomyocyte contractility
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Thomas Hafkamp

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    Joined us on July 15, 2020

  • PHD

    PhD in Mechanical Enginering, TU Eindhoven

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  • Thesis

    Towards closed-loop control in photopolymer-based additive manufacturing
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Farhan Kholid

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    Joined us on July 1, 2022

  • PHD

    Physics, University of Cambridge

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  • Thesis

    Picosecond Spin Seebeck Effect in Magnetic Insulators
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Cristina Palao

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Neehar Ranjan Moharana

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    Joined us on November 17, 2014

  • PHD

    Engineering Physics / Applied Physics

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  • Thesis

    Three-dimensional Lagrangian transport near the surface of a moving sphere
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Devyani Sharma

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    Joined us on January 1, 2022

  • PHD

    Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics

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  • Thesis

    Almost PhD!
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Leon Chen

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Martijn Vos

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    Joined us on February 1, 2020

  • PHD

    Applied Physics at TU Eindhoven

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  • Thesis

    Development and Understanding of Advanced Atomic Layer Deposition Processes: AlF3, Co, and Ru
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Danai Eleni Soulioti

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    Joined us on October 3, 2022

  • PHD

    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biomedical/Medical Engineering at North Carolina State University

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Sudhir Srivastava

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    Joined us on December 1, 2014

  • PHD

    Applied Physics

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  • Thesis

    Lattice Boltzmann method for contact line dynamics
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Steven Berghout

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    Joined us on January 1, 2019

  • PHD

    Probabilistic models at Leiden University

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  • Thesis

    Gibbs processes and applications
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Farid Alavi

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    Joined us on November 1, 2018

  • PHD

    Systems and Control at Delft University

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  • Thesis

    Model Predictive Control of Fuel-Cell-Car-Based Smart Energy Systems in the Presence of Uncertainty
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Britt van Rooij

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    Joined us on September 7, 2020

  • PHD

    Biomedical Engineering

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  • Thesis

    Platelet adhesion and aggregation in high shear blood flow, An In Silico and In Vitro Study
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Niels Duisters

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Irene Suriani

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    Joined us on January 1, 2025

  • PHD

    PhD candidate, TU/e – Eindhoven

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Yoones Kabiri

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    Joined us on September 1, 2018

  • PHD

    Applied Physics

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  • Thesis

    Imaging DNA nanostructures with advanced TEM techniques
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Jeire Steinbuch

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    Joined us on October 1, 2017

  • PHD

    Biomedical Engineering / Clinical Neurophysiology

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  • Thesis

    In vivo ultrasound assessment of carotid artery walls and plaques: Integrating morphological and mechanical characteristics
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Fabian Hinterer

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    Joined us on May 1, 2024

  • PHD

    PhD in Engineering Sciences - Mathematics

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  • Thesis

    Inverse problems in imaging applications across the scales
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Andrea Marcela Reina Tamayo

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    Joined us on June 1, 2017

  • Bright foundation

    Participated in Connecting Worlds , Science kitchen

  • PHD

    Studied Positive Organisational Psychology @ Erasmus University Rotterdam

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  • Thesis

    Almost PhD!
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Martijn Schaafsma

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    Joined us on February 1, 2015

  • PHD

    Physics, Nanophotonics

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  • Thesis

    THz resonances in semiconductor structures
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Boudewijn van den Berg

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    Joined us on February 1, 2024

  • PHD

    Researcher at the Universiteit Twente, Biomedical Signal Analysis, Machine Learning

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  • Thesis

    Combined Psychophysical and Neurophysiological Tools for Mechanism-Based Observation of Impaired Nociceptive Processing
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Stijn Berden

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    Joined us on September 1, 2014

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Jacques Noom

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    Joined us on October 1, 2023

  • PHD

    PhD Systems & Control

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  • Thesis

    Input design and data-driven approaches based on convex optimization for fault diagnosis in linear systems
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Alican Sahinkaya

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    Joined us on January 16, 2023

  • PHD

    PhD Mechanical Engineering at Cleveland State University

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  • Thesis

    Computational Cost Reduction of Robust Controllers for Active Magnetic Bearing Systems
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Bastiaan Ippel

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    Joined us on December 1, 2019

  • PHD

    Biomedical engineering, TU/e

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  • Thesis

    Functional supramolecular additives
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Jesús Barradas-Berglind

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    Joined us on March 1, 2018

  • PHD

    Control Engineering

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  • Thesis

    Fatigue-Damage Estimation and Control for Wind Turbines
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Stefan Sanders

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    Joined us on June 1, 2019

  • PHD

    Biomedical Engineering TU/e

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  • Thesis

    Almost PhD!
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Stephan Hannot

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    Joined us on November 1, 2019

  • PHD

    Engineering Mechanics, Delft University of Technology

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  • Thesis

    Modeling Strategies for Electro–Mechanical Microsystems with Uncertainty Quantification
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John Mathew

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    Joined us on March 1, 2019

  • PHD

    Physics of optical and mechanical interfaces in nano-scale devices

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  • Thesis

    Tailored Tunability of Nanoelectromechanical Systems for Mode Coupling and Thermal Studies
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Maalolan Ramanujam

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    Joined us on December 1, 2018

  • PHD

    Materials Science at University of Berlin

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  • Thesis

    Photo-oxidation and weathering of LDPE studied by surface and bulk analysis
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Maria Joao Enes da Silva

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    Joined us on June 1, 2022

  • PHD

    PhD Candidate at the University of Twente, Management and chemical engineering

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  • Thesis

    Utilization of P-NIPAM Polymeric Brushes in the Development of Thermo-Responsive Catalytic Systems
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Thomas Voortman

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    Joined us on March 1, 2017

  • PHD

    Polymer Chemistry

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  • Thesis

    Conjugated polyions: Polymers with ionic, water-soluble backbones
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Mohamed Touil

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    Joined us on January 1, 2023

  • PHD

    PhD in Physics: optics and lasers

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  • Thesis

    Real-time measurements of ultra-short phenomena: applications to laser oscillators and optical metrology
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Zhe Hou

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    Joined us on January 7, 2019

  • PHD

    Optical design at TU Delft

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  • Thesis

    Almost PhD!
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Henry Tol

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    Joined us on April 1, 2018

  • PHD

    Aerospace Engineering

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  • Thesis

    Finite-dimensional approximation and control of shear flows
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Mauricio Cruz Saldivar

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    Joined us on February 1, 2024

  • PHD

    Researcher at TU Delft | Department of Biomechanical Engineering

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  • Thesis

    The Bits of Nature: Bioinspired bitmap composites
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Abhishek Modi

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    Joined us on October 1, 2019

  • PHD

    PhD in Automotive Dynamics

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  • Thesis

    Almost PhD!
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Davood Farhadi

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    Joined us on May 1, 2019

  • PHD

    Compliant Mechanisms at TU Delft

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Amin Maghbouli

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    Joined us on July 16, 2018

  • PHD

    Mechanical modeling, simulation and analysis

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  • Thesis

    Development of an advanced multi-dimensional CFD framework for modeling low temperature combustion in direct injection compression ignition engines
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Parisa Rahnamay Moshtagh

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    Joined us on July 1, 2017

  • PHD

    Biomaterials, Cartilage Regeneration and Characterization

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  • Thesis

    Mechanobiology of articular cartilage: Consequences of physical activity and advanced glycation
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We are surrounded by Bright people

Our Brighties - extraordinary young academics with a PhD in technology - are vibrant trailblazers who have done incredible work in their fields.

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