People
Principal Investigator
Adjunct Professor
Email: a.o.krushynska[at]rug[dot]nl
Room: 5114.0039c
Phone: +31 50 36 38376
Postdocs
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: i.spanos@rug.nl
Room: 5112.0064
Research area: Mechanical metamaterials and soft robotic grippers
PhD students
PhD student
Email: s.beniwal@rug.nl
Room: 5114.0036
Research area: Phononic materials, acoustic and mechanical metamaterials, materials characterization
PhD student
Email: q.l.hopman@rug.nl
Room: 5114.0036
Research area: Fluid flows; mechanical and acoustic metamaterials for fluid flow control
PhD student
Email: b.j.t.piest@rug.nl
Room: 5114.0036
Research area: Fluid flows; mechanical and acoustic metamaterials for fluid flow control
PhD student
Email: h.c.v.m.s.veluvali@rug.nl
Room: 5114.0036
Phone: +31 6 3063 9883
Research area: Mechanical metamaterials: mathematical analysis and application to implants
PhD student
Email: v.hostinsky@rug.nl
Room: 5114.0038
Research area: application of mechanical metamaterials in the design of aeroplane wings
Master students
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Filippo Carretta (Applied Physics & Mechanical Engineering)
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Mark Immenga (Industrial Engineering & Management)
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Sil Postma (Industrial Engineering & Management)
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Sofie Schurink (Industrial Engineering & Management)
Bachelor students
none at the moment
Alumni
PhD students
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Zhaohang Zhang (2020-2024)
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Nitesh Anerao (2020-2022), currently at LG Electronics
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Bing Han (visiting), currently at an Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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Yu Xue (visiting)
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Lukas Kleine-Wächter (visiting), currently at TU Munich, Germany
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Guohui Yin (visiting), currently at Central South University, Changsha, China
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Emad Panahi (visiting), currently at Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Master students
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Wieger Vellema (Mechanical Engineering, 2021) "Incubator redesign"
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Emre Özer (Mechanical Engineering, 2021) "Energy harvesting possibilities with acoustic metamaterials"
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Nick Veldboom (Mechanical Engineering, 2021-2022) "Improving the Cleanliness Characteristics of Additively Manufactured 316L"
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Jorn-Ids Heins (Industrial Engineering & Management, 2021-2022) "Metamaterials in mandible reconstruction plate design"
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Christian van der Last (Mechanical Engineering, 2021) "Damage Tolerance of Additive Manufactured Multiple Load Path Structures"
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Aindrilla Chander (Chemical Engineering, 2022-2023) "Ground Tire Rubber and Polystyrene Blends in Sound Barriers in Dutch Highways"
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Ruben van Luijk (Energy & Environmental Sciences, 2022-2023)
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Thijs Qualm (Mechanical Engineering, 2022-2023) "Improving Fluorescence Detection and Heat Shielding for Cold Molecular Beam Sources"
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Leon Wierenga (Mechanical Engineering, 2022-2023) "Characterisation unstable behaviour of a centrifugal pump in organ perfusion via experimental and numerical analysis"
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Tim Faber (Mechanical Engineering, 2023) "The development of a soft-compliant sensorless gripper for harvesting single tomatoes for the Dutch fresh market"
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Egge Rouwhorst (Mechanical Engineering, 2023) "Acoustic validation of snap fit assembly"
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Bastiaan Piest (Mechanical Engineering, 2023-2024) "Mitigating Flow Induced Vibrations: Using Tunable Porous Metamaterials to Diffuse Turbulence in High-Tech Industrial Applications"
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Hrishikesh Sawant (Industrial Engineering & Management, 2024) "Vibration attenuation in waste piping system for residential and commercial buildings"
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Arjan van der Laan (Mechanical Engineering, 2024-2025) "Optimizing Metamaterial Structures Using Topology Optimization for Implants with Enhanced Mechanics"
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Joelle Lap (Industrial Engineering & Management, 2024-2025) "Investigating the influence of porosity on additively manufactured polymer metamaterials"
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Kamiel Politiek (Mechanical Engineering, 2024-2025) "Flow-Induced vibrations in 90 degree bent pipes"
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Quentin Hopman (Mechanical Engineering, 2024-2025) "Characterization of Near-Wall Pressure Fluctuations in Sudden Expansions with High-Speed Internal Flows for Metamaterial-based Vibration Mitigation"
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Jelmer de Laat (Mechanical Engineering, 2024-2025) "Phononic subsurface design for reducing turbulence in pipe flow using 3D printed metamaterials"
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Jelmer Veenhuizen (Mechanical Engineering, 2024-2025) "Metamaterial gripper application in agricultural harvesting"
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Lennard Tensundern (Mechanical Engineering, 2024-2025) "Acoustic Metamaterials for Treating Audible Low Frequency Sound in Critical Listening Environments"
Bachelor students
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Oliver Wilkins (Applied Phjysics, 2020) "Towards Two Dimensional Stealth Acoustic Metamaterials"
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Adeeb Khalid H. Saeed (Erasmus+ exchange program)
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Wisse Folkertsma (Industrial Engineering & Management, 2023) "Designing sound absorbing sound barriers"
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Arjan Westra (Industrial Engineering & Management, 2023) "Exoskeletons with adaptive mechanics"
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Damien Dufour (Industrial Engineering & Management, 2023) "Perfect linear absorption of deep water waves through resonance"
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Simon Veldkamp (Industrial Engineering & Management, 2023-2024) "Metamaterial design for exoskeleton to alleviate excessive spinal load"
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Ties van Tuil (Industrial Engineering & Management, 2023-2024) "Study of Concrete Foam Blocks for Mitigating Train-Induced Low-Frequency Ground Vibrations"
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Luuk Wendrich (Industrial Engineering & Management, 2023-2024) "On the acoustic transmitting behaviour of a waveguide sideloaded with cylindrical resonators"
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Adrian Marcos Alfonso (Biomedical Engineering, 2024) "Modulation of chiral metamaterials for biomedical implant applications"
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Jelle Vinke (Industrial Engineering & Management, 2024) "Achieving wave attenuation in wave tanks"
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Ede Bos (Industrial Engineering & Management, 2024-2025) "Fruit harvesting using smart gripper design"
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Minke Westra (Industrial Engineering & Management, 2025) "Design of 3D printed quasi-2D Metamaterials for Waveguiding"
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Gerko Wijnants (Industrial Engineering & Management, 2025) "Analyzing the impact of porosity and permeability of cubic lattice
structures on Flow-Induced Vibrations using ANSYS Fluent" -
Anne Feenstra (Biomedical Engineering) "Computational Analysis of Size Effects in Chiral Unit Cells for Mandibular Implants" (2025)