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.

Thomas Voortman

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    Joined us on March 1, 2017

  • PHD

    Polymer Chemistry

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    Conjugated polyions: Polymers with ionic, water-soluble backbones
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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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Diana Olejnik

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    Joined us on June 15, 2022

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    Bio-inspired control and design of flapping wing MAVs at TU Delft

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Mueez Aizaz

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    Joined us on July 1, 2022

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    Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Candidate, Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Maastricht UMC+

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Hans van Franeker

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    Joined us on January 1, 2017

  • PHD

    Chemistry, Solar Cells

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  • Thesis

    Droplets, fibers & crystals: controlling the nanostructure of polymer and perovskite solar cells
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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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Lonneke Ploum

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    Joined us on February 11, 2019

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Jacob-Jan Sloots

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    Joined us on August 1, 2021

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    Biomedical Engineering, University Medical Center Utrecht

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Louis Fixsen

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    Joined us on June 16, 2021

  • PHD

    Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology

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  • Thesis

    Ultrasound strain imaging of the failing and supported heart
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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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Joep Nijssen

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    Joined us on June 1, 2021

  • PHD

    Engineering Tribology, TU Delft

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  • Thesis

    Compliant Full Film Lubricated Bearings
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Andrés Aguirre Guzman

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    Joined us on April 1, 2022

  • PHD

    Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Applied Physics at Eindhoven University of Technology

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  • Thesis

    Numerical study of rapidly rotating turbulent convection
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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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Gaurav Nanda

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    Joined us on January 1, 2017

  • PHD

    Engineering Physics / Applied Physics

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  • Thesis

    Electronic transport in helium beam modified graphene and ballistic Josephson junctions
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Sabyasachi Neogi

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    Joined us on January 1, 2020

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Jijju Thomas

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    Joined us on March 1, 2021

  • PHD

    Dynamics and Control, TU/e

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  • Thesis

    Almost PhD!
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Leon van Gerwen

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    Joined us on September 1, 2014

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Stefan Schalk

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    Joined us on April 1, 2017

  • PHD

    Electrical Engineering

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  • Thesis

    Towards 3D prostate cancer localization by contrastultrasound dispersion imaging
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Marcel Borst

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    Joined us on January 1, 2016

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Maarten Kremers

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    Joined us on April 24, 2017

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    Electrical Engineering

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  • Thesis

    Analytical design of a transverse flux machine
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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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Rudy Cloots

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    Joined us on September 1, 2020

  • PHD

    PhD in Mechanical Engineering TU/e

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  • Thesis

    Multi-scale mechanics of traumatic brain injury
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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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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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Werner van de Sande

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    Joined us on May 1, 2020

  • PHD

    PhD in Mechanical Engineering,TU Delft

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  • Thesis

    Almost PhD!
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Luc Bakker

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    Joined us on April 1, 2022

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    Biomedical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology

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  • Thesis

    Almost PhD!
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Stijn Berden

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    Joined us on September 1, 2014

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Andrea Marcela Reina Tamayo

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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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Rody van Tuijl

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    Joined us on March 1, 2019

  • PHD

    Mechanical engineering at TU/e

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  • Thesis

    Wavelet based reduced order modelling for computational homogenisation
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Saravana Balaji Basuvalingam

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    Joined us on March 1, 2022

  • PHD

    Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics @ TU/e

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  • Thesis

    Atomic Layer Deposition of Low- Dimensional Transition Metal Di- and Tri- Chalcogenides and their Heterostructures
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Nadia Salman

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    Joined us on January 4, 2021

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    PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds

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Brian Baker

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    Joined us on November 15, 2021

  • PHD

    Surface Science, University of Groningen

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  • Thesis

    Molecular self-assembly of organic molecules on coinage metal surfaces
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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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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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Nicole van Gestel

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    Joined us on November 18, 2019

  • PHD

    Biomedical engineering, TU/e

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  • Thesis

    Bioactive Glass As Bone Graft Substitute. In vitro assessment of the mechanical and biological properties
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Menno Lauret

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    Joined us on July 1, 2016

  • PHD

    Mechanical Engineering

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  • Thesis

    Control of mixing and oscillations in plasmas and fluids
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Vikas Negi

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    Joined us on January 14, 2019

  • PHD

    Computational modeling TU/e

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  • Thesis

    Exploring the process-structure-property relationship of organic solar cells by high performance computer simulations
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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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Aida Rashidinejad

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    Joined us on January 1, 2022

  • PHD

    Control Systems Technology TU/e

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  • Thesis

    Model-based supervisory control synthesis of cyber-physical systems
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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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Lena Filatova

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    Joined us on November 1, 2018

  • PHD

    Biomedical Engineering at TU Delft

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  • Thesis

    Assessing Brain Structure and Function with Diffusion-Weighted MRI: Application to Stroke
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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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Taras Stanko

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    Joined us on September 1, 2020

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    Applied Mathematics, TU Eindhoven

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  • Thesis

    Enhancing the performance and security of Helper Data Systems
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Wendy van Wanroij

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    Joined us on September 1, 2014

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Shammi Rahangdale

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    Joined us on September 1, 2018

  • PHD

    Embedded Systems & Image Processing

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  • Thesis

    Almost PhD!
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Ben Schneider

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    Joined us on May 1, 2019

  • PHD

    Physics, TU-Delft

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  • Thesis

    Suspended carbon nanotubes coupled to superconducting circuits
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Marouen Hamdi

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    Joined us on February 15, 2021

  • PHD

    Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University

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Mario Coppola

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    Joined us on February 15, 2021

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    Space Systems Engineering, TU Delft

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  • Thesis

    Automatic Design of Verifiable Robot Swarms
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Amin Ahmadi Joneidi

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    Joined us on January 19, 2015

  • PHD

    Mechanical Engineering

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  • Thesis

    Three-dimensional boundary integral modeling of viscous drops and capsules
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Juan Vanegas Acosta

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    Joined us on February 1, 2016

  • PHD

    Electrical Engineering, Bioelectromagnetics

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  • Thesis

    Electric fields and biological cells: numerical insight into possible interaction mechanisms
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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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Manuel van Rijn

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    Joined us on August 1, 2021

  • PHD

    Physics TU/e

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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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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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Aromal Vasavan

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    Joined us on November 1, 2018

  • PHD

    Simulation of flow and heat transfer

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  • Thesis

    Almost PhD!
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Milad Mokhtari

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    Joined us on July 1, 2016

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    Mechanical Engineering

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  • Thesis

    The effect of a tribo-modified surface layer on friction in elastomer contacts
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Jeire Steinbuch

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    Joined us on October 1, 2017

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    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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Jelle Rommers

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    Joined us on May 1, 2021

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    Precision Engineering at TU Delft

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  • Thesis

    Almost PhD!
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Michael Ronde

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    Joined us on August 1, 2017

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    Systems and Control

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  • Thesis

    Feedforward control for lightweight motion systems
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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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Maarten Wouters

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    Joined us on March 1, 2021

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    Computational Fluid Dynamics, TU/e

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  • Thesis

    Mesoscopic modelling of drying phenomena of soft particle suspensions
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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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Farhan Kholid

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    Joined us on July 1, 2022

  • PHD

    Physics, University of Cambridge

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Abhishek Modi

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    Joined us on October 1, 2019

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    PhD in Automotive Dynamics

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  • Thesis

    Almost PhD!
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Tom Bruijnen

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    Joined us on February 14, 2022

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    PhD candidate | MRI-guided radiotherapy | UMC Utrecht

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  • Thesis

    Technical developments for quantitative and motion resolved MR-guided radiotherapy
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Bas van Loo

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    Joined us on May 1, 2022

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    PhD Candidate Microfluidic technologies for scalable spheroid/organoid production at University of Twente

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Mohit Kumar

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    Joined us on May 1, 2016

  • PHD

    Applied Mathematics

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  • Thesis

    Three-dimensional model for estuarine turbidity maxima in tidally dominated estuaries
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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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Renate Boekhoven

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    Joined us on May 18, 2015

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    Biomedical / Medical Engineering

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  • Thesis

    Mechanical characterisation of healthy and diseased carotid arteries using ultrasound
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Maria Joao Enes da Silva

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    Joined us on June 1, 2022

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

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Zhou Geng

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    Joined us on June 13, 2022

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    Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics

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Daniel Vakulov

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    Joined us on August 17, 2020

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    Applied Physics, TU Eindhoven

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  • Thesis

    Semiconductor nanowires for thermoelectric energy conversion
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Max Vogel

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    Joined us on September 1, 2018

  • PHD

    Human Biology

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  • Thesis

    Tissue oxygenation in human obesity: role in adipose Tissue dysfunction and metabolic health
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Ksenia Korzun

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    Joined us on June 1, 2022

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    Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Candidate, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics at Eindhoven University of Technology

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Jos Hendrikx

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    Joined us on July 9, 2015

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    Rheumatology

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  • Thesis

    Personalized management of Rheumatoid Arthritis: using PROMs for monitoring of disease activity
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Najmeh Sadegh

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    Joined us on August 1, 2022

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    Applied physics, University of Amsterdam

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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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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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Steven Kivits

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    Joined us on February 1, 2022

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Anna Nikiel

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    Joined us on August 1, 2017

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    Physics

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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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Tjitte-Jelte Peters

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    Joined us on October 1, 2016

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    Micro and Nano Engineering

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  • Thesis

    Silicon dioxide photonic mems: Chip-to-chip alignment with positionable waveguides
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Rita van den Bielerd

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    Joined us on January 1, 2016

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Joke Keijsers

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    Joined us on January 2, 2021

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    Cardiovascular Biomechanics at TU/e

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  • Thesis

    Numerical analysis of the hemodynamic response to orthostatic stress
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Hadi Yagubizade

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    Joined us on October 1, 2014

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    Micro Electromechanical Engineering

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  • Thesis

    PZT-on-silicon RF-MEMS Lamb wave resonators and filters
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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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Hilal van der Holst

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    Joined us on September 1, 2021

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    Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering at University of Porto

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Bastiaan Ippel

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    Joined us on December 1, 2019

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    Biomedical engineering, TU/e

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  • Thesis

    Functional supramolecular additives
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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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Ruben Hamans

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    Joined us on April 1, 2022

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    PhD Candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)

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  • Thesis

    Plasmonic Fields at Work
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Rohit S Nair

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    Joined us on April 1, 2021

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    Physics, TU Twente

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  • Thesis

    Spin-orbit-coupling induced lateral spin transport from first principles
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Alexandr Dolgov

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    Joined us on March 1, 2018

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    Plasma and High-Temperature Physics

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  • Thesis

    Plasma-assisted cleaning of extreme UV optics
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Victor Villalba Corbacho

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    Joined us on October 1, 2022

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    Space Engineering, TU Delft

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Stefan Sanders

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    Joined us on June 1, 2019

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    Biomedical Engineering TU/e

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    Almost PhD!
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Johan Smeets

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    Joined us on September 1, 2016

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    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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Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

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    Joined us on November 1, 2018

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    Soft Matter | Chemical Engineering | Material Sciences

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  • Thesis

    Almost PhD!
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Emiel van Disseldorp

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    Joined us on January 1, 2019

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    Cardiovascular Biomechanics at TU/e

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  • Thesis

    Mechanical analysis of aortic aneurysms using 3D ultrasound: towards patient-specific risk assessment
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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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