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Mehrzad Javad Zadeh

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Post-Doc “Know the question, and the answer will reveal.”Mehrzad completed his PhD in Physics at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, where he explored the melt electrowriting of liquid crystal elastomers and dynamic polymer networks. His research dissected the processing-structure-actuation interplay in stimuli-responsive micro-architectures, establishing fabrication strategies for high-resolution alignment and programmable actuation in soft matter […]

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Dongyu Zhang

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Post-Doc Dongyu Zhang obtained her PhD degree from the Eindhoven University ofTechnology, working in the Chemical Engineering and Chemistrydepartment. She is interested in studying stimulus-responsive liquidcrystal materials for liquid secretion. By mimicking the natural liquidsecretion phenomenon, she can employ some smart liquid crystalpolymeric materials for robotic applications such as “artificialperspiration”, “pick and place”, or “chemical

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Youssef Mosaddeghian Golestani

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Post-Doc “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken”Oscar Wilde Youssef earned his bachelor’s degree from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, where he also won the National College Basketball Championship as a member of Sharif basketball team. He obtained his master’s degree from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, under the supervision of Prof. Truong Vo-Van,

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Anne Verdurmen

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PhD, 17th February 2025 Anne M. J. Verdurmen obtained her masters degree in Chemical Engineering at the Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands. She is interested in liquid crystal actuators which rapidly change shape. Using these actuators she aims to create adaptable connections that can be used for neuromorphic computing. By adding ferroelectric materials the stimuli

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Iván Marín Miana

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PhD, 1st of October 2024 Ivan obtained his master’s in Molecular Chemistry and Homogeneous Catalysis from the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and completed his master project in the University of Florence (Italy) where he worked on polymers and copolymers with redox properties for energy-storage and opto/electro applications. Then, he developed his PhD in organic chemistry

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Anjali Devi Das

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Post-doc, 1st July 2023 Anjali completed her post-graduate studies in material science from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR, India), followed by a joint PhD from the University of Parma (Italy) and the University of Cape Town (South Africa) where she worked on host-guest based supramolecular polymers for early-stage damage detection in composite

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Xiuhu Zhao

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Post-doc, 1st July 2023 Xiuhu Zhao received his PhD from South China University of Technology (SCUT, China) in June 2023. His major is Materials Science and Engineering (MSE). His doctoral research mainly focused on novel ferroelectric nematic (NF) liquid crystals and nonlinear optics. His research interests include Ferroelectric Materials, Liquid Crystals, Nonlinear Optics, Metamaterials &

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Kutay Sağdıç

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PhD, 1st of July 2024 Over the past five years, I’ve led and contributed to interdisciplinary efforts to prevent, diagnose, and treat disease, uniting bioelectronics, biomaterials, microfluidics, and diagnostics across engineering disciplines. Most recently, I focused on soft materials, hydrogels and composites, for bioelectronics, using clean-room fabrication, bioprinting, and two-photon lithography to build conductive hydrogels

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Samuël A. M. (Sam) Weima

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Samuël A. M. (Sam) Weima PhD, 9th January 2023 Sam Weima obtained his masters degree in chemical engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology. He is interested in device integration and exploring new ideas with interdisciplinary cooperation. He is currently occupied with applying machine learning to the development of interactive materials. A fun fact about Sam

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