Team

Kunal Masania

About Kunal

The lab is headed by Kunal Masania (CV) and was founded in Jan 2020. Kunal obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering on the fracture mechanics of multi-scale composites from Imperial College London, UK in 2010. In 2011 he joined the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, to develop innovative manufacturing of new high-performance materials at industrial scale. In 2015 at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, he turned focus to the development of hierarchical structured materials with inspiration from the natural world using additive manufacturing. His work has been recognised by various prizes such as the MaP Career Seed Award from the ETH Foundation, JEC Innovation Award and nominated best Academic/Research Team in the 3D printing industry awards.

Vinay Damodaran

Post Doctoral Reseacher

Liquid Crystal Polymers
Topology and lamination optimisation
Multi-physics modeling

Caroline Houriet

PhD candidate

Liquid Crystal Polymers
Bioinspiration
Free-form Manufacturing

Satya Ammu

PhD candidate

Functional materials
4D printing

Muhamad Amani

PhD candidate

Topology Optimization
Computer Vision
Artificial Intelligence

Hao Wang

Visiting PhD candidate

Bio-inspired composite material
Freeze casting
3D printing

Lucas Weber

Visiting BSc student- Intern

Liquid crystal polymers

Antoine Morel

Visiting BSc student- Intern

Liquid crystal polymers

Amadou Kane Toure

Visiting BSc student- Intern

Piezoelectric materials
DLP

Shashank Amin

MSc student

Topology Optimization
Stress Line AM

Berend van Leengoed

MSc student

Liquid Crystal Polymers
Topology Optimization
Permeability Testing

Kevin Kruger

MSc student

Bio-Inspired
Natural Composite
Direct Ink Writing

Sungi Han

MSc student

Stress aligned AM
Long fibre plastics
Large scale AM, Robotic AM

Boris Ulyanov

MSc student

Liquid crystal polymers
Biomimetics
Composites

Sowrabh Shetty

MSc student

Natural composites
Bio-inspired

Stefano Morese

MSc student- Erasmus exchange

Smart materials
4D-printing
Self-healing materials

Linde Spoelstra

MSc student

Topology otpimisation
Bio-based composites
3D printing

Mihai Fetecau

BSc honours student

Topology otpimisation
Bio-inspired composites
Additive manufacturing

Christos Gernotas

MSc Erasmus student

3D priniting
Monitoring

Guillermo Presa

MSc student

Automated assembly
Digital materials
Collective robots

Motivated to join us?

We continually seek talented, motivated people that are keen to be a part of our research team. A willingness to hang out near the coffee machine and/ or being left-handed is a plus! Researchers at all levels are invited by contacting us.