🍁🍂🍁 Autumn has arrived at @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social #TUDelft #AerospaceEngineering 🍄🍄‍🟫🍄

🌳 Check out these two happy faces! Kimon and Elijah finished their bachelor's theses last week! 🌿 It was a lot of fun to guide them in the process and to have them working on my project. All the best with the next step, guys! 🪴 #PhDlife #plantscience #engineeredlivingmaterials

🌞Went out with @alexluijten.bsky.social to get some biomimicry inspiration from the famous Strandbeesten by Theo Jansen. Apparently the 'Strandbeesten mortuary' is right across the river from the @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social! 🤖🪁 #biodesign #robotics #PhDlife #TUDelft

🌳 A big shout-out to @bertderybel.bsky.social and the team at @psb-vib.bsky.social for organising the Vasculature Development Meeting, a satellite of #ICAR2025 in Ghent! 🌳 Added benefit of conferences in Belgium is that they have your favourite beer on stock... 🍺🌿

Planning Arabidopsis genetics in the postharvest group! Horticulture and Product physiology @wurplant.bsky.social #plantscience

SML'ers won the Lustrum Photo Challenge for the Aerospace Faculty's 85th Anniversary! We 3D printed fungi for this super fun challenge. Here's some behind the scenes action as well. 📸🍾🎉🍄 @kmasania.bsky.social #AerospaceEngineering

New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team! Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05... Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🔬Always nice to help out a fellow scientist... I suspect that the tensile testing of some of Gonçalo's homemade TPU filament with Kimon will not end up in a figure... #3Dprinting #PhDlife #AdditiveManufacturing

I'm really happy my officemate @alexluijten.bsky.social will be around for some years to come at the @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social! 🚀 Please don't fill the office to the brim with lattice cells, Alex... 🤖

Had a great time with Jasper last week running the Building Blocks of Life workshop for #TUDelft Girls' Day 💥 The high school girls got to isolate their own DNA and even took it home in a little test tube. Hopefully, we sparked some curiosity for a future in #STEM 💡🧬 @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social

It was fun to pitch my work on 3D printing of lab-grown wood at the EPS Annual Meeting! The people from @epsgraduateschool.bsky.social are an amazing brainy bunch with a lot of great input and ideas. 🌱 Thanks for the support @julianverdonk.bsky.social @kmasania.bsky.social! #plantscience

Very proud that our work has been published in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. The paper is part of Jordan van Brenks thesis, who will defend his PhD very soon 🤩 #cae #verticalfarming #plantscience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out this super cool paper from Caroline! #AdditiveManufacturing #BioInspired #PlantScience

Sourav, Silvan, and Jimmy had a great time trying out our new Shaper Origin hand-held CNC mill. Of course, we divided the work like true #academics! #CNC #milling #woodworking #PhDlife ~IN

Just another day at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft... We're sad to see our garden piece go, but the @koninklijkemarine.bsky.social apparently want their Westland Lynx back. #aerospace #tudelft ~IN

Super proud of Cid, my high school buddy, who defended his PhD thesis on 'The Pre-Roman Elements of The Sardinian Language'. You can spot me looking very sly in the background, playing paranymph, as Dutch tradition requires. #phddefence #paranymph #linguistics @unileiden.bsky.social

Thanks for saving the tree in front of my office window, guys! It did get me wondering whether we could have made living rope-tree #composites. Time to write a grant @kmasania.bsky.social...? #plantscience #engineeredlivingmaterials

I love the smell of miniprep in the morning... #microbiology #dna #plasmidisolation #plantscience @w-u-r.bsky.social @julianverdonk.bsky.social

We have two new vacancies to join our research team at TU Delft! @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social 1. postdoc on 🐝 insect inspired 3D printing! lnkd.in/eDigGhRY 2. phd/postdoc to develop a new sustainable bio-inspired material based on 🦠 bacteria & 🧬 protein. lnkd.in/enK8-UKj lnkd.in/eS3USYxX

LICHEN-BLADES consortia members have transformed wind turbine blade sections into a bike pump track! 🚴‍♂️😮It was on display at the IDE faculty square last few weeks. . @DenizSayinbas, also a project member, had a great day at work thanks to it. 🍃 @kmasania.bsky.social #windenergy #circulareconomy

I think the lab ghosts are definitely haunting me, but what is the condensation owl trying to tell me...? Maybe it is time for a vacation... @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social #plantscience #microbiology #labwork #agarplates

It was great to show you the way around the lab Napat, I hope you have a safe trip home! 🚀 @kmasania.bsky.social @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social

🥳 A big congrats to Caroline; I think her work on 3D printing with liquid crystal polymers is super inspiring; make sure to check it out! 👩‍🎨🚀 I will miss her around the lab, but I'm sure we can expect a lot more cool work from her! #3Dprinting @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social @kmasania.bsky.social

Thanks to @ec.europa.eu Horizon magazine for this cool article about our work! projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-m... @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social

🎄If you're looking for reading material for the Christmas break, check out my review paper on how living organisms can be used to make #composite materials! 🪴🧬 I promise you will see your Christmas tree differently after reading!🎄 #additivemanufacturing #plantscience #ELM doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

🚀Super proud of Wouter, the first master's student I had the pleasure to guide through his master's thesis! He did a really cool thesis on 3D printing of bioinspired, bacteria-embedded ceramic composites. #engineeredlivingmaterials #3Dprinting @kmasania.bsky.social @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social

🎁🎄We had a wonderful Secret 'Saint Nicolas' (the Dutch Santa who comes in the beginning of December) at the @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social. I still haven't figured out which colleague gave me a pair of great books... With @m-amani.bsky.social in the foreground taking the picture.

Cancelled during COVID, but now finally back to present! On December 10, 2024, Dr. Anna Rosling of Uppsala University in Sweden will deliver the next Ritzema Bos lecture on Genomics of Uncultured Fungi! #plantscience #fungi #wageningen

🪴A couple of months ago, we received an NWO-XS grant to explore the 3D printing of lab-grown wood. Stuff is cooking in the lab... stay tuned! 🔬🚀 Find out more: t.co/tfvPI0Yqsq @julianverdonk.bsky.social @kmasania.bsky.social @tudelft.bsky.social @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social

🤓🧬I had a fun time explaining the concept of Golden Gate cloning to non-biologists. They had tape and scissors at their disposal instead of restriction enzymes and DNA ligase... Much more fun than pipetting clear liquids; however, you need to find the recognition site yourself! #molecularbiology