PhD on Tomographic Volumetric Additive Manufacturing

Are you fascinated by cutting-edge additive manufacturing technologies and eager to develop and build experimental setups and combine this with physics-based modelling? Join us as a PhD candidate and contribute to making volumetric 3D printing predictable, reliable, and industry-ready.

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Additive manufacturing enables unprecedented design freedom, but today's technologies still struggle with predictability, efficiency, and material waste. A promising new approach, Tomographic Volumetric Additive Manufacturing (TVAM), can fabricate complex 3D objects in a single step without support structures. However, industrial adoption is currently limited by the lack of predictive process and material models.

As a PhD candidate, you will work on the M2i-funded research project "Multiphysics Modelling of Tomographic Volumetric Additive Manufacturing Processes for Predictive Product Properties (MTV)". Your research focuses on the experimental and material-modelling foundations required to enable predictive and controlled TVAM.

You will be embedded in the Processing & Performance section of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology and closely collaborate with a second PhD candidate focusing on process-scale modelling. The project is carried out together with the industrial partner Motion Imager and international academic collaborators.

Your main responsibilities include:

• Designing and building an experimental TVAM setup for simple and complex geometries.
• Experimentally characterising photopolymer curing behaviour, including reaction kinetics, shrinkage, thermal effects, and mechanical property evolution.
• Developing physics-based constitutive material models describing liquid-to-solid transitions and viscoelastic behaviour under light exposure.
• Validating material models using experimental data and applying them to complex printed geometries.
• Contributing to integrated demonstrations of predictive TVAM processes together with modelling and industrial partners.
• Publishing your results in leading scientific journals and presenting them at international conferences.
• Supervising MSc and BSc students and contributing to teaching activities.

Through your work, you will directly contribute to reducing material waste, enabling "first-time-right" manufacturing, and advancing digital twins for next-generation additive manufacturing.

A meaningful job in a dynamic and ambitious university, in an interdisciplinary setting and within an international network. You will work on a beautiful, green campus within walking distance of the central train station. In addition, we offer you:

• Full-time employment for four years, with an intermediate assessment after nine months. You will spend a minimum of 10% of your four-year employment on teaching tasks, with a maximum of 15% per year of your employment.
• Salary and benefits (such as a pension scheme, paid pregnancy and maternity leave, partially paid parental leave) in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities, scale P (min. € 3,059 - max. € 3,881).
• A year-end bonus of 8.3% and annual vacation pay of 8%.
• High-quality training programs and other support to grow into a self-aware, autonomous scientific researcher. At TU/e we challenge you to take charge of your own learning process.
• An excellent technical infrastructure, on-campus children's day care and sports facilities.
• An allowance for commuting, working from home and internet costs.
• A Staff Immigration Team and a tax compensation scheme (the 30% facility) for international candidates.