Funding & Projects

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List of Projects (with end date after 2020)

FWO-Weave (G000225N), Learning the Physics of Dendrite Growth in Lithium-Ion Batteries: An Attention Mechanism Approach for Prevention and Mitigation, DENDRITEPHASE, Jan 2025-Dec 2028.
KU Leuven BOF funding (C14/24/104), Titanium alloys with tailored thermal expansion, TITREX, Oct 2024- Sept 2028.
FWO-SB PhD-fellowship strategic basic research Wout Mertens (1S60325N), Modeling Advanced Nd-Fe-B magnets for green NET shaping and improved Alloying, MAGNETA, Nov 2024–Oct 2028.
VLAIO-Baekeland mandate Aman Gupta (HBC.2024.0255), Development of computation assisted material selection approach for multi-material metal additive manufacturing, Sept 2024-Aug 2028.
FWO ERA-MIN3, Rapidly sintered re-engineered Nd-Fe-B permanent magnets based on recycled content, SIREN, Jan 2024-Dec 2026
European Union Horizon-CL4-2023-Digital-Emerging-01-12, Multiscale characterization and simulation for hydrogen embrittlement assessment: development of an open knowledge platform to foster capability integration, HyWay, 2023-2027.
European Union HE-p1-ERC European Research Council Proof of Concept grant (n◦ 101123107), Innovative digital twin concept of complex microstructure evolution in multi-component materials, μTWIN, Sept 2023-Febr 2025
European Union H2020-ES-ERC-European Research Council Starting Grant(n◦ 714754), Unraveling interdiffusion effects at Material Interfaces – Learning from Tensors of microstructure evolution simulations, , INTERDIFFUSION, March 2017–Aug 2022
KU Leuven BOF funding (C14/17/075), Multi-scale modeling of reactions at solid-liquid interfaces and their effect on dynamic wetting and phase morphology, Oct 2017– Sept 2023.
Vlaio SIM/M3-ICON, Process Simulation for Additive Manufacturing, PROCSIMA, Jan 2021– June 2024.
ESA ITT AO/1-9176/18/NL/LvH, Advanced aluminium alloys tailored for additive manufacturing space applications, targeting high end structural spacecraft parts, Oct 2018- April 2022.
ESA AO10435 – Development of new metallic alloys for additive manufacturing, April 2021–March 2023.
Vlaio SIM/M3-ICON, Additive Layer Manufacturing for Aerospace, ALMA, 2018-2021.
FWO-SB PhD-fellowship strategic basic research Héléna Verbeeck (1S07322N), Small-scale modeling of the dissolution behavior of platinum group metal nanoparticles in pyrometallurgical recycling from spent auto-catalysts, Nov 2021–Oct 2025.
FWO-SB PhD-fellowship strategic basic research Vincent Feyen, Multiscale solidification and heat treatment model for additive manufacturing of Ti-6Al-4V using phase-field theory. Feb 2019–Jan 2023.
FWO senior postdoctoral fellowship Daiman Zhu (1287021N), Combining thermodynamic modeling and 3D printing of selective laser melting for high-throughput investigation of Bi2Te3-based thermoelectric modules, Oct 2019–Sept 2022.