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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

  • Material Science

    • Heat Pipe
    • Three Dimensional Printing

  • Engineering

    • Design
    • Additive Manufacturing

  • Physics

    • Performance
    • Utilization
    • Model
    • Technology

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Publications

2026

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/s41699-026-00680-7

2025

Characterization of thermal properties of ball-milled copper-graphene powder as feedstock for additive manufacturing (2025)Powder technology, 466. Article 121423. Lee, H., Jafari, D., Koutsioukis, A., Nicolosi, V., Geurts, B. J. & Wits, W. W.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2025.121423Interrelation between Microstructure and Thermal Conductivity of Metal-Graphene Material Systems (2025)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] 18th European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes, FEMS 2025 EUROMAT. Lee, H., Ruan, S., Bhootpur, N., Jafari, D., Geurts, B. J., Koutsioukis, A., van Goor, L., Lupoi, R., Zavašnik, J., Yin, S., Nicolosi, V., Lyulin, A. & Wits, W. W.Additive manufacturing of passive two-phase devices for thermal management applications (2025)Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 65. Article 103877. Velardo, J., Singh, R., Date, A. & Wits, W. W.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsep.2025.103877Optimising hybrid carbon-fibre composite – titanium joints via additive manufacturing (2025)[Contribution to conference › Other] 5th International Conference on Simulation for Additive Manufacturing, Sim-AM 2025. Wits, W. W.General applicability of fatigue life assessment method for metal laser powder bed fusion parts: Variation in material, shape and test conditions (2025)Procedia CIRP, 137, 277-282. Wits, W. W. & Amsterdam, E.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2025.02.267Laser powder bed fusion of 3D metamaterials for energy absorption (2025)Procedia CIRP, 137, 374-379. Wits, W. W., de Vos, C., Montero-Sistiaga, M. & de Smit, M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2025.02.278Laser powder bed fusion process parameters for the fabrication of unsupported overhang structures of metamaterial lattices (2025)CIRP annals : manufacturing technology, 74(1), 309-313. Wits, W. W., de Vos, C., Montero-Sistiaga, M. & de Smit, M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cirp.2025.03.003Review on properties, physics, and fabrication of two-dimensional material-based metal-matrix composites (2DMMCs) for heat transfer systems (2025)Renewable & sustainable energy reviews, 217. Article 115700. Lee, H., Lordejani, A. A., van Goor, L., Jurov, A., Koutsioukis, A., Ruan, S., Santhosh, N. M., Zarei, F., Barreneche, C., Cvelbar, U., Dosta, S., Geurts, B. J., Guagliano, M., Jafari, D., Nicolosi, V., Yin, S., Zavašnik, J., Bagherifard, S., Lupoi, R. & Wits, W. W.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2025.115700Multiscale Modeling of Heat Transfer in Graphene-Copper Nanocomposites (2025)[Contribution to conference › Poster] Computational Modeling of Complex Materials across the Scales, CMCS 2025. van Goor, L. A., Lee, H., Jafari, D., Lyulin, A. V., Wits, W. W. & Geurts, B. J.

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