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.

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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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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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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Wendy van Wanroij

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    Joined us on September 1, 2014

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Ann-Sophie Farle

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    Joined us on May 1, 2017

  • PHD

    Materials Science

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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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Abhishek Modi

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    Joined us on October 1, 2019

  • PHD

    PhD in Automotive Dynamics

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    Almost PhD!
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Rita van den Bielerd

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    Joined us on January 1, 2016

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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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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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Diana Grishina

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    Joined us on September 1, 2017

  • PHD

    Physics

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  • Thesis

    3D Silicon Nanophotonics
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Dariush Bijani

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    Joined us on November 1, 2016

  • PHD

    Mechanical Engineering / Tribology

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  • Thesis

    The Effect of Surface Texturing on Friction in Lubricated Parallel Sliding Contacts, Considering Starvation and Boundary Slip
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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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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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Tudor Vacaretu

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    Joined us on January 1, 2022

  • PHD

    PhD Candidate at Eindhoven University of Technology

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  • Thesis

    Almost PhD!
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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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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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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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Anna Nikiel

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    Joined us on August 1, 2017

  • PHD

    Physics

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Zhou Geng

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    Joined us on June 13, 2022

  • PHD

    Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics

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  • Thesis

    Strong light-matter interactions and nonlinear dynamics in coherently driven optical resonators
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Lisa Royer

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    Joined us on January 1, 2023

  • PHD

    PhD in material science and electrochemistry at Strasbourg University

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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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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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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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Thomas Notermans

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    Joined us on November 1, 2021

  • PHD

    Biomedical Engineering at Lund University (Sweden)

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  • Thesis

    Computational modeling of mechanobiology in intact and healing rat Achilles tendon
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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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Jolt Oostra

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    Joined us on July 6, 2015

  • PHD

    Physics, Molecular Electrons – Physics of Organic Semiconductors

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  • Thesis

    Towards self-healing organic electronics
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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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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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Taras Stanko

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    Joined us on September 1, 2020

  • PHD

    Applied Mathematics, TU Eindhoven

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  • Thesis

    Enhancing the performance and security of Helper Data Systems
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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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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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Violeta Navarro Paredes

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    Joined us on April 1, 2018

  • PHD

    Physics

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  • Thesis

    Estudio de las propiedades mecánicas de superficies de Au y TiO2 mediante microscopía de fuerzas
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Donatella Simonetti

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    Joined us on May 1, 2024

  • PHD

    PhD Biomechanical Engineering at TU Twente

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  • Thesis

    Toward a Wearable Gait Lab for the Quantitative Assessment of Musculoskeletal Function
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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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Manuel van Rijn

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    Joined us on August 1, 2021

  • PHD

    Physics TU/e

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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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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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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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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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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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Abhijit Kalbhor

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    Joined us on February 1, 2023

  • PHD

    PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology

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  • Thesis

    Model development and numerical investigation of soot formation in combustion
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Najmeh Sadegh

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    Joined us on August 1, 2022

  • PHD

    Applied physics, University of Amsterdam

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  • Thesis

    Almost PhD!
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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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Robbert Willems

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    Joined us on October 1, 2020

  • PHD

    Mechanical Engineering TU/e

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  • Thesis

    Designed Experiments for Efficient Engines
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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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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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Shahin Mohammad Nejad

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    Joined us on January 9, 2023

  • PHD

    PhD Candidate, Technical University of Eindhoven

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  • Thesis

    Scattering Dynamics of Rarefied Gases
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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

  • PHD

    Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering at University of Porto

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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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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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Mehmet Ercan Tekin

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Paul Denissen

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    Joined us on August 1, 2021

  • PHD

    Material Technology TU Delft

  • Thesis

    In-situ Visual Quantification of Corrosion and Corrosion Protection
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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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Maarten Wouters

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    Joined us on March 1, 2021

  • PHD

    Computational Fluid Dynamics, TU/e

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  • Thesis

    Mesoscopic modelling of drying phenomena of soft particle suspensions
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Sven Weerdenburg

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    Joined us on May 1, 2024

  • PHD

    PhD Candidate EUV/Soft X-Ray metrology at TU Delft

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  • Thesis

    Almost PhD!
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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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Kujtim Gashi

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    Joined us on March 1, 2021

  • PHD

    Medical Engineering, TU/e

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  • Thesis

    The impact of model assumptions on coronary blood flow computations
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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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Rutger Beekelaar

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    Joined us on September 1, 2014

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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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Ruben Hamans

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    Joined us on April 1, 2022

  • PHD

    PhD Candidate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)

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  • Thesis

    Plasmonic Fields at Work
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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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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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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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Jordi Kleinloog

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    Joined us on October 1, 2022

  • PHD

    PhD at the department of Nutrition and Movements Sciences

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  • Thesis

    Cerebrovascular and peripheral vascular function in adults: Effects of exercise training, soy nuts and inorganic nitrate
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Tom Bruijnen

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    Joined us on February 14, 2022

  • PHD

    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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Shreya Das

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    Joined us on January 16, 2023

  • PHD

    Researcher PhD Student at Radboudumc Nijmegen

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  • Thesis

    Deformation and strain imaging of puborectalis muscle using 3D ultrasound
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Yousef Shaheen

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    Joined us on May 1, 2022

  • PHD

    PhD Candidate in Multiscale Modelling & Engineering at University of Twente

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  • Thesis

    Numerical and Experimental Studies of Laser Powder Bed Fusion Processes
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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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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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Sjors Jansen

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    Joined us on January 1, 2023

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    PhD Candidate Eindhoven University of Technology

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  • Thesis

    Quantitative models for stochastic project planning
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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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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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Koen Verkerk

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    Joined us on September 1, 2016

  • PHD

    Control Systems

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  • Thesis

    Improved accuracy of flexible systems by state estimation: applied to high-precision motion systems
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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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Cansu Karakaya

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    Joined us on March 1, 2024

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    PhD Candidate in Biomedical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology

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  • Thesis

    Almost PhD!
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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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Jim Schormans

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    Joined us on September 1, 2020

  • PHD

    PhD in Mechanical Engineering TU/e

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  • Thesis

    Deformation and failure of woven and 3D composites
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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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  • Thesis

    Almost PhD!
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Evangelos Georgakopoulos

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    Joined us on August 1, 2021

  • PHD

    Mineral Carbonation & Industrial Waste (Steel slag) Valorization, Cranfield University

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  • Thesis

    Iron and steel slag valorization through carbonation and supplementary processes
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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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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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Menno Lauret

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    Joined us on July 1, 2016

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    Mechanical Engineering

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  • Thesis

    Control of mixing and oscillations in plasmas and fluids
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Marieke van den Kerkhof

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    Joined us on February 1, 2024

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    PhD Candidate at Maastricht University Medical Center, Department of Radiology

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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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Jessica van der Leij

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    Joined us on September 1, 2021

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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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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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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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Rody van Tuijl

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    Joined us on March 1, 2019

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    Mechanical engineering at TU/e

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  • Thesis

    Wavelet based reduced order modelling for computational homogenisation
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Mohamed Darwish

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    Joined us on September 1, 2017

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    Electrica Engineering, Control Systems

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  • Thesis

    Bayesian identification of linear dynamic systems
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Britt van Rooij

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    Joined us on September 7, 2020

  • PHD

    Biomedical Engineering

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    Platelet adhesion and aggregation in high shear blood flow, An In Silico and In Vitro Study
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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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Salman Shafqat

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    Joined us on October 16, 2019

  • PHD

    Mechanical Engineering, TU Eindhoven

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  • Thesis

    Stretching the limits of stretchable electronics: towards high-density, highly stretchable electronics
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Rohit S Nair

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    Joined us on April 1, 2021

  • PHD

    Physics, TU Twente

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  • Thesis

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