Our Team
Our team members are at the core of what makes Meta Mechanics such a unique and fulfilling place to work. We take pride in the diversity of our staff, with each member contributing their unique skills to the projects we are working on.
M.Sc. students
Alumni
B.Sc. students
1. Oliver Wilkins "Towards Two Dimensional Stealth Acoustic Metamaterials" (2020)
2. Gerwin Numan "Recreation of the haptic perceptibility of Sawbones® using 3D printed in-house materials" (2021)
3. Arjan Westra "Exoskeletons with adaptive mechanics" (2023)
4. Wisse Folkertsma "Designing sound absorbing sound barriers" (2023)
5. Damien Dufour "Perfect linear absorption of deep water waves through resonance" (2023)
6. Simon Veldkamp "Metamaterial design for exoskeleton to alleviate excessive spinal load" (2024)
7. Ties van Tuil "Study of Concrete Foam Blocks for Mitigating Train-Induced Low-Frequency Ground Vibrations" (2024)
8. Luuk Wendrich "On the acoustic transmitting behaviour of a waveguide sideloaded with cylindrical resonators" (2024)
9. Adrian Marcos Alfonso "Modulation of chiral metamaterials for biomedical implant applications" (2024)
10. Jelle Vinke "Achieving wave attenuation in wave tanks" (2024)
11. Ede Bos "Fruit harvesting using smart gripper design" (2025)
M.Sc. students
1. Laura Enrique Feliu "Acoustic metamaterials with controllable transmission: from complete sound attenuation to a transparent state" (2020)
2. Wieger Vellema "Incubator redesign" (2020)
3. Emre Oezer "Energy harvesting possibilities with acoustic metamaterials" (2021)
4. Christiaan van der Last "Damage Tolerance of Additive Manufactured Multiple Load Path Structures" (2021)
5. Jorn-Ids Heins "Metamaterials in mandible reconstruction plate design" (2022)
6. Nick Veldboom "Improving the Cleanliness Characteristics of Additively Manufactured 316L"
(2022)
7. Aindrilla Chander "Ground Tire Rubber and Polystyrene Blends in Sound Barriers in Dutch Highways" (2023)
8. Tim Faber "The development of a soft-compliant sensorless gripper for harvesting single tomatoes for the Dutch fresh market" (2023)
9. Thijs Qualm "Improving Fluorescence Detection and Heat Shielding for Cold Molecular Beam Sources" (2023)
10. Leon Wierenga "Characterisation unstable behaviour of a centrifugal pump in organ perfusion via experimental and numerical analysis" (2023)
11. Egge Rouwhorst "Acoustic validation of snap fit assembly" (2023)
12. Bastiaan Piest " Mitigating Flow Induced Vibrations: Using Tunable Porous Metamaterials to Diffuse Turbulence in High-Tech Industrial Applications" (2024)
13. Hrishikesh Sawant "Vibration attenuation in waste piping system for residential and commercial buildings" (2024)
14. Franziska Harker-York "Identifying the Mechanical Properties of Stainless Steel - Silk Yarn in Combined Pattern of Twill and Plain Weave" (2024)​​​
15. Joelle Lap "Investigating the influence of porosity on additively manufactured polymer metamaterials": (2025)
16. Quentin L. Hopman "Characterization of Near-Wall Pressure Fluctuations in Sudden Expansions with High-Speed Internal Fllows for Metamaterial-based Vibration Mitigation" (2025)
17. Kamiel Politiek "Flow-Induced vibrations in 90 degree bent pipes" (2025)
Ph.D. students
1. Nitesh Anerao, currently at LG Electronics
2. Bing Han (visiting) , currently at an Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
3. Yu Xue (visiting)
4. Lukas Kleine-Waechter (visiting), currently at TU Munich, Germany
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