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dr.ir. W. Wits (Wessel)

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Carré C3730
w.w.wits@utwente.nl
+31534891910
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Dr. ir. Wessel W. Wits is appointed Fellow at University of Twente and Senior Scientist at Royal NLR – Netherlands Aerospace Centre. His primary research focus is on (metal) Additive Manufacturing Technologies. Dr. Wits received his PhD in 2008 on the topic of integrated cooling concepts for electronic systems. Since then, he has developed a profound interest in advanced manufacturing and thermal management systems. 

Dr. Wits has contributed markedly to the field of advanced manufacturing and thermal management. Projects include development of metal 3D printing, Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) and Directed Energy Deposition (DED) processes and associated materials, as well as innovative designs of heat pipes, thermosyphons, loop heat pipes, pulsating heat pipes, pumped two-phase loops and many more heat transfer devices. Next to a solid base in manufacturing and material sciences, heat and mass flow knowledge plays a pivotal role in this respect. Recent advances in additive manufacturing have tremendously enlarged the manufacturable design solution space. Dr. Wits is committed to exploiting this technological progress by inventing even better cooling devices, and by disseminating this to academic peers and industry at large.

Dr. Wits is Associate Member of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP), Associate Editor of CIRP Journal of Manufacturing Science and Technology, Chair of the Board of the EU Pathfinder ThermoDust project, Steering Committee Member of THERMINIC, the International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems, and Founder of the Dutch Knowledge Center for Heat Pipe Technology.

Expertise

  • Engineering

    • Heat Pipe
    • Laser Powder Bed Fusion
    • Additive Manufacturing
    • Printed Circuit Board

  • Material Science

    • Three Dimensional Printing
    • Graphene
    • Electronic Circuit
    • Thermal Conductivity

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Publications

2026

Additive manufacturing of graphene-reinforced copper matrix composites produced via cold spray (2026)Materials & Design, 270. Article 116929. Zarei, F., Ardeshiri Lordejani, A., Lee, H., Ruan, S., Koutsioukis, A., Guo, X., Jafari, D., Yin, S., Nicolosi, V., Dosta, S., Wits, W. W., Lupoi, R., Guagliano, M. & Bagherifard, S.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2026.116929Data supporting the publication: “Lattice initialisation and finite-size effects of non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations for heat transfer across graphene-copper interfaces” (2026)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. 4TU.Centre for Research Data. van Goor, L., Edeling, W., Jafari, D., Lee, H., Luesink, E., Wits, W. W., Lyulin, A. & Geurts, B. J.https://doi.org/10.4121/a1aec49e-028a-4341-a46b-46ec584dcea5Modeling of heat transfer across graphene-copper interfaces (2026)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] 17th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM) and 10th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS), WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026. van Goor, L., Edeling, W., Jafari, D., Lee, H., Lyulin, A., Wits, W. W. & Geurts, B. J.Lattice initialisation and finite-size effects of non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations for heat transfer across graphene-copper interfaces (2026)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. van Goor, L. A., Edeling, W. N., Jafari, D., Lee, H., Luesink, E., Wits, W. W., Lyulin, A. V. & Geurts, B. J.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.16783Uncertainty quantification of upscaling thermal transport (2026)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] International Conference on Scientific Computing and Differential Equations, SciCADE 2026. van Goor, L., Edeling, W., Jafari, D., Lee, H., Luesink, E., Lyulin, A., Wits, W. W. & Geurts, B. J.Laser powder bed fusion of graphene-enhanced copper composites (2026)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] 12 RIPT 2026. Lee, H., Jafari, D., van Goor, L., Lyulin, A., Geurts, B. J. & Wits, W. W.Molecular dynamics analysis of heat transfer across graphene-copper interfaces in additively manufactured composites (2026)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] 12 RIPT 2026. van Goor, L., Edeling, W., Geurts, B. J., Wits, W. W., Jafari, D., Lee, H. & Lyulin, A.From wet-milled Cu-graphene powder to 2DMMCs via cold spray additive manufacturing (2026)[Contribution to conference › Poster] 12 RIPT 2026. Zarei, F., Ardeshiri Lordejani, A., Lee, H., Ruan, S., Jafari, D., Wits, W. W., Yin, S., Lupoi, R., Guagliano, M. & Bagherifard, S.Sustainable, solvent-free exfoliation of 2D materials for thermally conductive metal powder coatings (2026)npj 2D Materials and Applications, 10. Article 41 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Koutsioukis, A., Ruan, S., Cabello, R., Lee, H., Oikonomou, I. M., Guo, X., Sasnauskas, A., Munuera, J. M., Rafferty, A., Xiong, Y., Dosta Parras, S., Wits, W. W., Yin, S., Coleman, J., Lupoi, R. & Nicolosi, V.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41699-026-00680-7Using single pulses in powder-blown directed energy deposition to fabricate high-aspect-ratio metal pins (2026)CIRP annals : manufacturing technology, 75(1), 329-333. Wits, W. W., Yang, S., Vroon, J. & Bremer, S. J. L.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cirp.2026.04.001

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