Additive Manufacturing

My research interest is in developing stem cell based therapies and disease models by combining stem cell biology and bio-fabrication. The aim of my study is to establish protocols to drive human pluripotent stem cells towards terminally differentiated cells types of kidney, which can be combined with bio-fabrication process to develop viable functional units of kidney in vitro.

She has been interested in the field of regeneration ever since her Master's Thesis project in Elly Tanaka’s lab where she studied the mechanism of axolotl limb regeneration. Expanding on her PhD research of in vivo bioreactor for vascular tissue engineering, she explores the host response of various biomaterials for tissue regeneration.

I am interested in cardiac tissue regeneration and how it can be applied to treating heart tissue damage following a myocardial infarction. In my PhD, I will work on developing a cardiac patch by using a cell-seeded scaffold that can be efficiently implanted to the site of tissue damage and subsequently repair and restore myocardial function to the heart.

Bastiaans main research interest is focused on the long-term performance of stereolithographic printed materials. This to improve, understand and predict material behavior.

My research task aims at improving the processing of biocompatible polymers during 3D printing of scaffolds for bone regeneration. Tissue engineering is the future of medicine, having the potential to cope with the lack of donors or risk of rejection of the implanted organs. In this perspective, three-dimensional printing seems to be the answer to the need of a reliable, reproducible, adjustable and up-scalable method to create scaffolds.

Carlos main research interests are focused on biofabrication, bioprinting and additive manufacturing techniques for the development of tissue engineered constructs.

My background is chemical engineering. In my PhD project, I will focus on modeling the 3D printing of thermosets filled with electromagnetically active particles. Under the application of external fields, the particle arrangement is tailored, leading to materials with intriguing properties that are of great technological importance (e.g. antennas, microchips, hearing-aids).

Vahid works on the synthesis of novel polymeric materials for the fabrication of 3D printing scaffolds using in complex tissue regeneration.

Dr. Lorenzo Moroni's research interests aim at developing new biofabrication technologies to generate libraries of 3D scaffolds able to control cell fate. This passes through the design of biomaterials, 3D scaffolds, and surface properties to better understand cell-material interactions.

The focus of my work is the creation of a multi-material stereolithography printing setup. This involves chemistry and material research.
Being able to print multi-material opens up a wide variety of possibilities, think of integrated electronics or colored 3D-object.

To fully exploit the possibilities of the selective laser sintering technique, I try to understand the fabrication process itself in detail and know all about the material properties of the produced parts by computational modeling using the finite element method.

My research focusses on analysing the behaviour of materials under stress, using the selective laser sintering technique of Additive Manufacturing. This research is important to predict long-term behaviour in short-term tests. This knowledge will be used to make a judgement about the material properties and the robustness of the produced parts.