Research on soft heart in Reformatorisch Dagblad
The Reformatorisch Dagblad published an article about the collaboration between our Soft Robotic Matter Group and heart surgeon Jolanda Kluin at the Amsterdam Medical Center. We will be making an …
Edge of Chaos
On October 25th at the Cinekid Festival in Amsterdam, I received a grant to build an interactive art installation. It is one of three original media artworks that will be …
Who doesn’t want to wear a soft robotic jacket?!
I have been awarded funding through the programme ‘Creatieve industrie – Kennis Innovatie Mapping’ (KIEM) from NWO Humanities. The funding will go to “Project Cairo: an intelligent soft robotic jacket”. I …
NWO-magazine Hypothese
This month, NWO-magazine Hypothese published a spread about my work in Nature. Currently, we are working hard to bring this research a step further!
Prismatic geometries published in Nature
Today our work was published in Nature. Inspired by the structural diversity and foldability of the prismatic geometries that can be constructed using the snapology origami technique, we introduce a …
Paper in PRL
Today, Physical Review Letters published or work on a tensile instability that occurs in thick blocks of soft materials. In 1948, Rivlin predicted analytically that a tensile instability can occur in an elastic …
PhD defense
Today was my last day as a PhD student at Harvard. It was great to defend my PhD in the presence of many colleagues and friends. I especially would like to …
Paper in Nature Communications
Today, Nature Communications published our paper “A three-dimensional actuated origami-inspired transformable metamaterial with multiple degrees of freedom” in which we introduce a new type of foldable material that is versatile, tunable …
3D Printing Materials Conference
This week, I will attend the 3D Printing Materials Conference in Maastricht. I will present some of my work and speak about “Embracing compliance in robots to achieve function”. I …
MRS Fall Meeting 2015
This week, the MRS Fall Meeting was held in Boston and was the first time a session was organized on architected materials, with inspiring talks from invited speakers such as Jennifer Lewis, …