Worked at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of KULeuven on a PhD under the supervision of Prof. Joost Duflou and Prof. Wim Dewulf. The research centered on demanufacturing strategies for End-of-Life electronic products, such as set-top boxes (digiboxes), modems and LCD TVs. The main target of the research was to improve the recycling of precious metals and polymeric materials. To achieve this target, the implementation of active fasteners from prior research and new concepts for active disassembly, as well as robust automated destructive demanufacturing processes, were investigated.

Development of underwater anchoring system (conceptual design, CAD, FEA, Prototyping)