👩🏫 Currently working as lecturer at the ED chair of the MS3 department at the University of Twente 🇳🇱
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🥽 Part of the curriculum renewal of the BSc in Mechanical Engineering since 2025 | Theme: Project and Skills | Semester 1: Mechanical design and Manufacturing | 🔗Quality Insurance - NVAO Mechanical Engineering - Publication outcomes development dialogue
⚙️ Module and Project coordination since 2022 | Module ME 4: Design and Mechanics | BSc in Mechanical Engineering
- 2025 - Project case in partnership with SolidGripSystems - "Design of a camera dolly"
- 2024 - Project case in partnership with Revalidatiecentrum Roessingh - "Design of a patient lift"
- 2023 - Project case in partnership with Engineers without Borders NL - "Design of a water tower frame"
- 2022 - Project case in partnership with Huisman Equipment BV - "Design of an offshore crane for maintenance of floating wind turbines"
🧰 Semester 1 project coordination since 2023 | UT-VU semester 1| Joint BSc in Mechanical Engineering UT-VU
- 2026 - Project case on a Mechanical Dart Player (suction based darts) -ongoing
- 2025 - Project case on a Mechanical Dutch Shuffleboard (Sjoelen) Player - Game try-outs
- 2024 - Project case on a Mechanical Cornhole Player - Final competition on Campus at the UT
- 2023 - Project case on a Mechanical Pétanque Player - Final competition at the local Jeu de Boules association
💼 Individual internship supervision since 2024 | MSc internship in Mechanical Engineering
- 2026 - Sibbir Ahamed - Internship with Sensata Technologies - ongoing
- 2025 - Tim Roos - Internship with Damen | ME - "Barge Loader for a Cutter Suction Dredger"
- 2024 - Luc Visser - Internship with Huisman Equipment BV | ME - "Design of a transportation cart -Subcomponent of deck skid system for monopile installation"
🔬 MSc thesis co-supervision since 2024 | MSc theses in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design Engineering
- 2026 - Geert Talsma - Assignment with Engineers without Borders NL, TrashSmart Ghana and Humanitarian Engineering UT | IDE - Ongoing
- 2025 - Tirsa van der Ouw - Assignment with Engineers without Borders NL, TrashSmart Ghana and Humanitarian Engineering UT | IDE - "Turning Plastic Waste into Building Bricks"
🔬 BSc thesis supervision since 2026 | BSc theses in Mechanical Engineering at UT and at UT-VU
- 2026 - Caitlin Reichardt - ongoing
- 2026 - Pietro Zagarella - ongoing
- 2026 - Elen Grieves - Effects of minor variations in weight composition of recycled plastic-sand bricks on their mechanical properties
- 2026 - Sjoerd Servaas - Effects of the Size of Sand and Plastic Particles on the Elastic Modulus and Yield Strength of Up-cycled Plastic Bricks
📍 Office room N 142 (Horst Building)
Expertise
Material Science
- Tool Steel
- Aluminum
- Aluminum Alloy
- Physical Vapor Deposition
- Alloy
- Surface Engineering
- Polymer
- Stamping
Organisations
🔬 2022-2027 - Currently involved with supervising MSc and BSc projects together with Engineers without Borders "Waste to Infrastructure in Ghana"
🎩 2017-2025 - PhD in Machine Elements from Luleå University of Technology - In the domain of high temperature tribology - My PhD thesis was on "On aluminium transfer at high temperature – Mechanisms and control"
💼 2017 - Research Engineer in Machine Elements at Luleå University of Technology - In the domain of tribology, researching the properties and development mechanisms of tribolayers under wear tests of tool steel materials with varying carbon content, varying test speeds and configurations
🎓 2016 - Double MSc degree from ENISE France - In the domain of surface texturing to promote adhesive bonding between aluminium and polymeric glue - My MSc thesis was on "Mechanical surface texturing by knurling process - Application to Adhesive bonding" (in english, available on my LinkedIN profile). S. Divin did her PhD thesis on the follow-up of my MSc thesis "Texturation micrometrique de surface par procédé mecanique de moletage pour optimiser la tenue des assemblages collés" (PhD thesis in french)
+ My engineering school graduation report was on "Texturation de Surface par voie Mécanique de type Moletage - Application au Collage -" (in french)
💼 2015 - Intern in University lab at Högskolan i Halmstad - In the domain of pitting of gear steel - My internship was on "Using an industrial tribometer to study the micro pitting phenomena appearing on gears" (in english, report available on my LinkedIN profile)
💼 2014 - Intern in R&D department in Die Casting company CastMétal Feurs on ceramic inserts in aluminium casts to improve wear resistance of cast bucket teeth.
Publications
2026
2025
2024
2023
Other contributions
See my Researchgate, Publons and/or OrcID page for updated list of publications
Research profiles
⚙️ Module and Project coordination since 2022 | Module ME 4: Design and Mechanics | BSc in Mechanical Engineering
- 2025 - Project case in partnership with SolidGripSystems - "Design of a camera dolly"
- 2024 - Project case in partnership with Revalidatiecentrum Roessingh - "Design of a patient lift"
- 2023 - Project case in partnership with Engineers without Borders NL - "Design of a water tower frame"
- 2022 - Project case in partnership with Huisman Equipment BV - "Design of an offshore crane for maintenance of floating wind turbines"
🧰 Semester 1 project coordination since 2023 | UT-VU semester 1| Joint BSc in Mechanical Engineering UT-VU
- 2026 - Project case on a Mechanical Dart Player (suction based darts) -ongoing
- 2025 - Project case on a Mechanical Dutch Shuffleboard (Sjoelen) Player - Game try-outs
- 2024 - Project case on a Mechanical Cornhole Player - Final competition on Campus at the UT
- 2023 - Project case on a Mechanical Pétanque Player - Final competition at the local Jeu de Boules association
💼 Individual internship supervision since 2024 | MSc internship in Mechanical Engineering
- 2026 - Sibbir Ahamed - Internship with Sensata Technologies - ongoing
- 2025 - Tim Roos - Internship with Damen | ME - "Barge Loader for a Cutter Suction Dredger"
- 2024 - Luc Visser - Internship with Huisman Equipment BV | ME - "Design of a transportation cart -Subcomponent of deck skid system for monopile installation"
🔬 MSc thesis co-supervision since 2024 | MSc theses in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design Engineering
- 2026 - Geert Talsma - Assignment with Engineers without Borders NL, TrashSmart Ghana and Humanitarian Engineering UT | IDE - Ongoing
- 2025 - Tirsa van der Ouw - Assignment with Engineers without Borders NL, TrashSmart Ghana and Humanitarian Engineering UT | IDE - "Turning Plastic Waste into Building Bricks"
🔬 BSc thesis supervision since 2026 | BSc theses in Mechanical Engineering at UT and at UT-VU
- 2026 - Caitlin Reichardt - ongoing
- 2026 - Pietro Zagarella - ongoing
- 2026 - Elen Grieves - Effects of minor variations in weight composition of recycled plastic-sand bricks on their mechanical properties
- 2026 - Sjoerd Servaas - Effects of the Size of Sand and Plastic Particles on the Elastic Modulus and Yield Strength of Up-cycled Plastic Bricks
Affiliated study programs
Courses academic year 2026/2027
Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
Courses academic year 2025/2026
Waste to Infrastructure in Ghana
- Funded by Alberto Martinetti, Peter Chemweno and our partners Engineers without Borders NL, UT Climate Center, ET Faculty at UT "EwB-NL Waste To Infrastructure In Ghana"
- Exhibited at the Dutch Design Week (DDW) 🟣🟠🔴 2026 in Eindhoven (NL) "Waste to Infrastructure - Recycled plastic bricks for school washrooms in Ghana"
- Presented at the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) Conference 🔵🟠 2026 in Boulder (US) "From waste to sanitation infrastructure for underserved communities: an empirical method to determine optimal plastic-sand ratio for construction bricks"
- 🏆 First place winner of the UNESCO World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development (WED) hackathon 2025 🌍 in Paris (FR) "ManufacturingBox"
Address
University of Twente
Horst Complex (building no. 20), room N142
De Horst 2
7522 LW Enschede
Netherlands
University of Twente
Horst Complex N142
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
Netherlands
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