Researcher

Seppe Terryn

Research Expertise (Vrije Universiteit Brussel):
Dr. ir. Seppe Terryn graduated his MSc in 2014 with highest distinction. He started his PhD on an ERC Starting grant SPEAR (Series Parallel Elastic Actuators for Robotics) of prof. dr. ir. Bram Vanderboght but received an FWO personal grant in 2015. In his FWO funded research he combined smart materials and robotics and developed a new multidisciplinary field “self-healing soft robots”, via an established collaboration between Brubotics and FYSC at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. In 2019 he graduated with highest distinction, felicitations of the jury and received the BiR&D Award, after which he continued as a Postdoc. In 2020 he received an FWO Junior Postdoc grant for his research on introducing redundancy in multi-material, self-healing soft robots. In parallel, he is managing the EU FET project SHERO on self-healing soft robots, the EU Marie Curie ITN SMART on smart materials for robots and the FWO SBO project AMSER on additive manufacturing of self-healing robots. In these projects, he is currently guiding a team of 9 PhD students working further on increasing the TRL-level of self-healing soft robots towards industrial applications, while performing fundamental research on self-healing polymers/composites, (additive) manufacturing, self-healing sensors and actuators.

Disciplines (Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre):Display technology, Antennas and propagation, Automation and control systems, Analogue, RF and mixed signal integrated circuits, Neuromorphic computing, Audio and speech processing, Environmental safety and health of nanotechnology, Battery technology, Biomaterials, Ceramic matrix composites, Hybrid composites, Computational materials science, Metals and alloy materials, Polymer processing, Nanomaterials, Functional materials, Biomedical image processing, Biochemical engineering, Biofluid mechanics, Cell, tissue and organ engineering, Arithmetic and logic structures, Automation, feedback control and robotics, Bio-informatics, Analogue and digital signal processing, Engineering instrumentation, Environmental health and safety, Biostatistics, Care for disabled, Bioethics
Disciplines (Vrije Universiteit Brussel):Human-centred and life-like robotics, Physical system modelling, Kinematics and dynamics, Robot structures, Mechanical drive systems

Users of research expertise (Vrije Universiteit Brussel):
Dr. ir. Seppe Terryn graduated his MSc in 2014 with highest distinction. He started his PhD on an ERC Starting grant SPEAR (Series Parallel Elastic Actuators for Robotics) of prof. dr. ir. Bram Vanderboght but received an FWO personal grant in 2015. In his FWO funded research he combined smart materials and robotics and developed a new multidisciplinary field “self-healing soft robots”, via an established collaboration between Brubotics and FYSC at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. In 2019 he graduated with highest distinction, felicitations of the jury and received the BiR&D Award, after which he continued as a Postdoc. In 2020 he received an FWO Junior Postdoc grant for his research on introducing redundancy in multi-material, self-healing soft robots. In parallel, he is managing the EU FET project SHERO on self-healing soft robots, the EU Marie Curie ITN SMART on smart materials for robots and the FWO SBO project AMSER on additive manufacturing of self-healing robots. In these projects, he is currently guiding a team of 9 PhD students working further on increasing the TRL-level of self-healing soft robots towards industrial applications, while performing fundamental research on self-healing polymers/composites, (additive) manufacturing, self-healing sensors and actuators.