Hello and goodbye

Rui Figueiredo will join us as postdoc on the 1st of Marts 2025 and will be working in the MEMA section on THE ERC-funded project “ALPS - AI-based Learning for Physical Simulation”. Rui will be supervised by Prof. Alessandro Lucantonio. 

We are looking forward to receiving Rui and hope you will all give him a warm welcome to our department. 

Frederik Erhard Gullach will join us as PhD student from 15 February and will be working in the FLEN section on the CO2 capture from seawater. He will be supervised by Mahdi Abkar and Marta Victoria.

Frederik is from Denmark and has previously studied at Aarhus University.

We are looking forward to receiving Frederik and hope you will all give him a warm welcome to our department.

Tian Wang will join us as postdoc from February 1^st and will be working in the FLEN-section on experimental characterization of bubbly flows. Tian Wang will be supervised by Pourya Forooghi.

Tian Wang is from China and has previously studied at Niels Bohr Institute and comes from a position as a post-doc at DTU.

We are looking forward to receiving Tian Wang and hope you will all give her a warm welcome to our department.

Melissa Pilegaard Rasch Nielsen will join us as a research assistant on 15 October. She will work in the MEDY section on the following projects: Automated Soil Strength Measurements. Melissa will be supervised by Ole Balling.
 
Melissa is from Odense, Denmark and has previously studied at the Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, where she completed her master's degree in the summer of 2024.
 
We are looking forward to receiving Melissa and hope you will all give her a warm welcome to our department.

Adrián Borbolla Muñoz will join us as an industrial PhD student on the 1 October and will be working in the DEMA section on the project “ZemID: Realising Net-Zero Emissions Manufacturing Via Simulation-Based Identification of Production Capabilities”.

Adrián will be supervised by Devarajan Ramanujan and Charles Møller.

Adrián is from Spain and has previously received his MSc. in Mechanical Engineering from Aarhus University. He comes from a position as Environmental/Data Engineer in Sustainable Manufacturing at Grundfos A/s. 

We are looking forward to receiving Adrián and hope you will all give him a warm welcome to our department.

Phan Hoang Dao Nguyen will join us as PhD student the 1 October and will be working in the MEMA-section on the following projects: HyFly. Phan will be supervised by Søren Madsen and Michal K. Budzik.

Phan has previously studied at Aarhus University and graduated in Mechanical Engineering this summer.

We are looking forward to receiving Phan and hope you will all give him a warm welcome to our department.

As of February 28. 2025, Hemanshul Garg will be leaving his position as a Postdoc.

We wish him all the best in his future career endeavours.

As of February 28. 2025, Sleiman Farah will be leaving his position as a Postdoc.

We wish him all the best in his future career endeavours.

As of February 28. 2025, Frederik Bendix Thostrup will resign from his position as academic employee.

We wish him all the best in his future career endeavours.

As of February 28 2025, Devarajan Ramanujan will step down from his position as Head of Section in Design and Manufacturing. Dev will continue at MPE in a position of 10 percent and will otherwise continue his career as an associate professor at DTU. 

We wish him all the best in his future career endeavours.

As of 15 february 2025, Matteo Calafà will be leaving his position as a Research Assistant.

Matteo has terminated his contract because he has found a PhD position at DTU.

We wish him all the best in his future career endeavours.

As of 14 january 2025, Luis Octavio De Cunto will be leaving his position as a Research Assistant.

Luis has been employed in a temporary position, which is concluding now.

We wish him all the best in his future career endeavours.

As of 31 December 2024, Ehsan Mahravan will be leaving his position as a Postdoc

We wish him all the best in his future career endeavours.

As of 31 December 2024, Mogens Odgaard Andersen will be leaving his position as Secretariat Staff Member

We wish him all the best in his future career endeavours.

As of 30 September 2024, Giovanni Formentini will be leaving his position as a Postdoc in the DEMA-section.

Giovanni has been employed in a temporary position, which is concluding now.

We wish him all the best in his future career endeavours.