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PhD researcher
Address:
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Faculty of Applied Sciences
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Building Z - Room ZW105b
Pleinlaan , 2
B-1050 Brussels
Belgium
Phone:
ellen.roels@vub.be
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Background
Ellen completed her Master's in Mechanical Engineering in 2018 and went on to earn her PhD in 2023 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her doctoral research focused on manufacturing self-healing soft robots with embedded sensors, for which she received a fellowship from the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO). Her postdoctoral research, in partnership with KU Leuven and funded by an FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship, combines her expertise in soft robotics and materials science to enhance the comfort of physical human-robotic interfaces.
Research interests
- Soft robotics
- Human robot interfaces
- Material non linearities
- Science communication
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