Lab News & Events

We are thrilled to share the great news that our team member, Dr. Jan-Hendrik Bastek, has been honored as one of the recipients of the SWICCOMAS PhD Thesis Award 2025!

We are excited to announce that our team is growing! Please join us in welcoming Emil and Tom, who bring fresh perspectives and exceptional skills to our research group.

Charles Dorn, postdoctoral researcher at the Mechanics and Materials Laboratory under Professor Dennis Kochmann in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, has been appointed as Assistant Professor at the University of Washington.

We are proud to announce that on August 29, 2024, Helen Le Clézio successfully defended her PhD dissertation, titled Efficient Computational Modeling of Hyperelastic Beam Networks.  

Congratulations to Junyu Chen for receiving ETH Medal for his  Master Thesis "Theoretical modelling and experimental investigation of 3D straw-based truss metamaterials".

Konstantinos Karapiperis and Vignesh Kannan, both postdoctoral researchers in Professor Dennis Kochmann's lab at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, have been appointed professors.

Our doctoral student, Shashank Saxena, recently won the best poster award in the SWICCOMMAS 2024 Poster Competition held at ETH Zurich on February 16th.

Through multiscale simulations and many-scales-spanning experiments we explore the complex electro-mechanically behavior of ferroelectric ceramics.

Researchers have trained an artificial intelligence to design the structure of so-​called metamaterials with desired mechanical properties for a wide range of applications.