Roeland de Breuker, TU Delft, Panelist

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Abstract: Round Table - Adaptive Structures in the 21st Century – A Big Tent: Mid- and Early-Career Researchers Chart Paths Forward

Bio: Roeland De Breuker is an associate professor at the Delft University of Technology. He is also Head of the Department of Aerospace Structures and Materials at the faculty of Aerospace Engineering. Roeland De Breuker joined the Delft University of Technology as Associate Researcher in 2005 after obtaining his MSc in the nonlinear characterisation and experiments of piezoelectric benders from the Delft University of Technology in 2004. While working as Associate Researcher, he obtained his PhD in developing design tools for morphing aircraft from the Delft University of Technology in 2011. He was a visiting researcher at the DLR in Göttingen and Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY, and a visiting professor at Airbus Group Innovations in Munich, Germany. Roeland De Breuker's main research activities are smart and aeroelastic structures. He focuses on developing analysis tools, optimising and designing structures, and related bench and wind tunnel experiments for code validation and proof of concept. His research activities range from technology readiness levels 1-4. He is involved in multiple European, Dutch and industry projects in the research fields of smart and aeroelastic structures. He is (co-)advising 21 PhD students, he graduated 15 PhD students as (co-) promotor and is advising/has advised 75 MSc students. He currently holds around 70 refereed journal papers and three patents.