Soft Actuators Do The Twist

Today Harvard SEAS published the press release of our most recent collaboration with the Harvard Biodesign Lab: “The heart is not alone. The human body is replete with examples of …

ASME 2013 San Diego

This week, at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference in San Diego, I presented some preliminary work on the optimization of soft actuators. In specific, I talked about the optimization of the …

NEW.Mech 2013

Last weekend I attended the New England Workshop on the Mechanics of Materials and Structures NEW.Mech, held at Northeastern University in Boston. Markus Buehler from MIT gave an exciting presentation about engineering materials …

NEW.Mech 2012

I have updated my publications page and added an abstract of the poster presentation that I gave on 3 November on the New England Workshop on the Mechanics of Materials and Structures …

SES 49th Annual Technical Meeting

I have updated my publications page and added an abstract of the seminar that I gave on 10 October at the Society of Engineering Science 49th Annual Technical Meeting SES at Georgia Tech …

ECCOMAS 2012

I have updated my publications page and added an abstract of the seminar that I gave on 10 September at the European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering …

Master’s degree thesis defense

Today I successfully defended my Master’s Thesis “The Moving Node Approach in Topology Optimization – An Exploration to a Flow-inspired Meshless Method-based Topology Optimization Method” at Delft University of Technology. I …