Supervised PhD projects

Ongoing PhD projects

  1. Diogo Costa Cabanas (promotor)
  2. Joey Dekker (promotor)
  3. Kevin Dijkstra (promotor)
  4. Călin-Andrei Georgescu, Quantum computational fluid dynamics (supervisor and promotor)
  5. Luca Hofstadler, Quantum computation approach in transmission expansion planning (promotor)
  6. Monica Lăcătuş, Quantum computational fluid dynamics (supervisor and promotor)
  7. Jingya Li, Computer-aided design and analysis tools for offshore floating photovoltaics (supervisor and promotor)
  8. Koen J. Mesman, Quantum-enhanced AI for sustainable materials in aerospace (promotor)
  9. Arne Wulff, Quantum-enhanced AI for structural design in aerospace (promotor)

Finished PhD projects

  1. Zeynab Kaseb, Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence for Power System Modeling and Control Thesis (co-supervisor and promotor, date of defense 10-09-2026)
  2. Vijai Kumar Suriyababu, Robust and Automated Geometry Processing Workflows for Engineering Applications, Thesis (co-supervisor and promotor, date of defense 01-07-2026)
  3. Merel A. Schalkers, The Quantum Lattice Boltzmann method, Thesis (promotor, date of defense 03-02-2026)
  4. Alexander N. M. Heemels, Composing Light, Thesis (promotor, date of defense 17-11-2025)
  5. 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)
  6. Mengyun Wang, Multi-Sided Computational Domain Parameterization Methods for Isogeometric Analysis (CSC host, date of defense 22-05-2025)
  7. Hugo Verhelst, Isogeometric Analysis of Wrinkling, Thesis (promotor, date of defense 18-01-2024)
  8. Ye Ji, On domain parameterization for isogeometric analysis, Dalian University of Technology, China, (CSC host, date of defense 21-11-2023)
  9. 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)
  10. Roel Tielen, P-multigrid methods for Isogeometric analysis, Thesis (promotor, date of defense 21-10-2021)
  11. Babak Sayyid Hosseini, Isogeometric Analysis for Multiphase Fluid-Structure Interaction, Thesis, TU Dortmund University, Germany (external supervisor, date of defense 24-02-2021)
  12. Jochen Hinz, PDE-Based Parameterisation Techniques for Isogeometric Analysis Applications, Thesis (co-promotor, date of defense 17-07-2020)
  13. Elizaveta Wobbes, Algorithmic Improvements of the Material-Point Method and Taylor Least-Squares Function Reconstruction, Thesis (co-promotor, date of defense 18-12-2019)
  14. Jakolien van der Meer, Numerical Simulation of Foam Flow in Porous Media, Thesis (co-promotor, date of defense 31-01-2018)