Thursday, March 19:
- Seppe Terryn, Professor (VUB): Self-healing soft robotics technologies
- Margaux Mannaerts, PhD student (ULB): “Stabilization of bronchoscopic tools in the periphery of the lungs”
- Marwa Eldiwiny, Post Doc (VUB): Sunflower Robotics
- Esra Yalcinkaya, PhD student (UMONS): “3D-printed light-driven PNIPAM/Gold Nanoparticle hydrogel nanocomposites for biomedical application”
- Juan Alejandro Guerrero Teran, PhD student (UMONS): “Self-powered Humidity-activated Piezoionic sensors“
What comes after the thesis? Testimonies from PhDs (March 19), animated by Pierre Lambert, Professor (ULB)
- Aline De Greef, Coach Polytech (BAPP, ULB)
- Benjamin Mertens, CEO (Lys Medical)
- Ellen Roels, Professor (VUB)
- Antoniya Toncheva, Program leader & R&D Scientist (MateriaNova)
Friday, March 20:
- Julia Siminska-Stanny, Post Doc (ULB): “3D Bioprinted Hydrogels with Vascular Architectures for Tissue Engineering and Ultrasound-Enhanced Therapies”
- Manon Cassignol, PhD student (ULB): “Mechanical properties of PNIPAM microactuators.”
- Murillo Santana, Professor (Aix-Marseille Université) : “Nonlinear analysis of a tensegrity module”
- Pasquale Ferrentino, Post Doc (VUB): Metamaterials and Smart materials for Aerial Robotics
- Amir Abrishami, PhD student (ULB): The intersection of nanotechnology studies and 3D printing tumor models
- Pierre Lambert, Professor (ULB): Instrumented Glass Sensor for Lung Cancer Detection