Supervised PhD projects

Ongoing PhD projects

  1. Călin-Andrei Georgescu, Quantum computational fluid dynamics (supervisor and promotor)
  2. Luca Hofstadler, Quantum computation approach in transmission expansion planning (promotor)
  3. Zeynab Kaseb, Data-driven optimal operation of smart local energy systems (co-supervisor and promotor)
  4. Monica Lăcătuş, Quantum computational fluid dynamics (supervisor and promotor)
  5. Jingya Li, Computer-aided design and analysis tools for offshore floating photovoltaics (supervisor and promotor)
  6. Koen J. Mesman, Quantum-enhanced AI for sustainable materials in aerospace (promotor)
  7. Merel A. Schalkers, Quantum computational fluid dynamics (supervisor and promotor)
  8. Vijai Suriyababu, Automated Grid Generation for Hexahedral and Hex-dominated Grids (co-supervisor and promotor)
  9. Arne Wulff, Quantum-enhanced AI for structural design in aerospace (promotor)

Finished PhD projects

  1. Alexander N. M. Heemels, Composing Light, Thesis (promotor, date of defense 17-11-2025)
  2. Giorgio Tosti Balducci, On the intersection of quantum computing and computational structural mechanics: With a focus on near-term quantum computers, Thesis (promotor together with Boyang Chen and Roeland de Breuker, date of defense 03-10-2025)
  3. Mengyun Wang, Multi-Sided Computational Domain Parameterization Methods for Isogeometric Analysis (CSC host, date of defense 22-05-2025)
  4. Hugo Verhelst, Isogeometric Analysis of Wrinkling, Thesis (promotor, date of defense 18-01-2024)
  5. Ye Ji, On domain parameterization for isogeometric analysis, Dalian University of Technology, China, (CSC host, date of defense 21-11-2023)
  6. Andrzej Jaeschke, Flow channel shape optimization based on algorithmic differentiation and isogeometric analysis, Lodz University of Technology, Poland, (external advisor, date of defense 09-09-2022)
  7. Roel Tielen, P-multigrid methods for Isogeometric analysis, Thesis (promotor, date of defense 21-10-2021)
  8. Babak Sayyid Hosseini, Isogeometric Analysis for Multiphase Fluid-Structure Interaction, Thesis, TU Dortmund University, Germany (external supervisor, date of defense 24-02-2021)
  9. Jochen Hinz, PDE-Based Parameterisation Techniques for Isogeometric Analysis Applications, Thesis (co-promotor, date of defense 17-07-2020)
  10. Elizaveta Wobbes, Algorithmic Improvements of the Material-Point Method and Taylor Least-Squares Function Reconstruction, Thesis (co-promotor, date of defense 18-12-2019)
  11. Jakolien van der Meer, Numerical Simulation of Foam Flow in Porous Media, Thesis (co-promotor, date of defense 31-01-2018)