Poster contest:
During each EM Symposium the PhD students of the Graduate School present their research projects in two poster sessions . A jury selects the best three contributions. The winning contributions of the poster contests at past EM Symposia were:
2021
Lei Liu (TUe) | A multi-scale framework towards prediction of the martensite/ferrite interface damage initiation |
Alva Bechlenberg (RuG) | The Ocean Grazer – Simulating complex interactions and nonlinear behaviours of a dense wave energy converter array |
Juan Esteban Alvarez Naranjo (UT) | Thermo-mechanical modelling of polymer sintering |
Andrea Cupertino (TUD) | High-Q spiderweb nanomechanical resonators by Bayesian optimization |
2018
V. Shah (TU/e) | Spatially dependent kinetics of helium in tungsten under fusion conditions |
B.de Gooijer(UT) | Propagation of variation through multi-stage metal forming processes |
A. Chandrashekar(TUD) | On the dynamical integrity of tapping mode atomic force microscopy |
2017
PhD Presentation Contest:
Starting in the year 2000 the EM Graduate School also organizes a PhD Presentation Contest within the framework of the EM Symposium. A jury consisting of the workshop organizers awards prizes for the best PhD presentation at each of the symposium workshops. The winning contributions were:
2021
Rinus Hoogesteger (TU/e) | “Feeling” buried features, a nonlineardynamical approach |
Sumit Mohanty (UT) | Acoustically-powered bubbles: from metamaterials to actuators |
Andrea Cupertino (TUD) | High-Q spiderweb nanomechanical resonators by Bayesian optimization |
Hugo Verhelst (TUD) | A Parallel Adaptive Arc-Length Method |
2020
Bram van der Weg (UT) Interactive crash simulation |
Nick Hoksbergen (UT) Leading edge erosion of wind turbine blades |
Nicky Jonkers (TU/e) Experimental characterization and modeling of the mechanical behavior of brittle 3D printed food |
Yousef Shaheen (UT) From Discrete to Continuum with MercuryCG: Applications in Additive Manufacturing |
2018
Boukje de Gooijer (UT) | Reduction methods in metamodeling of metal forming processes |
Max van der Kolk (TUD) | Topology optimization of transient thermo-mechanical metamaterials |
Awital Mannheim (TU/e) | Tungsten in the fusion reactor wall: predicting and improving the microstructural evolution, using multi?scale modelling |
Robin Dolleman (TUD) | Graphene gas- and osmotic pressure sensors |
2017
Yabin Yang (TUD) | Computationally efficient thermo-mechanical modelling metal additive manufacturing |
Rody van Tuijl (TU/e) | Wavelet-Reduced Order Modelling |
Rianne Luimes (TU/e) | Climate-induced cracks in wooden art objects |
Mark Rijnen (TU/e) | On closed-loop trajectory tracking for impacting mechanical systems |
2016

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