Dr. ir. Elkhuizen, W.S.

Willemijn Elkhuizen is assistant professor at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. Her main research interests are in material appearance capturing, visualization and fabrication (using 3D scanning and 3D printing) and their application in the domains of (product) design and cultural heritage.

Academic Background

Willemijn started her career at Océ Technologies, gaining experience with printing technologies. In 2019, she obtained her PhD at Delft University of Technology, focused on the reproduction of color, topography and gloss of paintings, using 3D scanning and 3D printing. As part of her PhD, she also 3D scanned Johannes Vermeer’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’, to evaluate the technique’s suitability for documentation and visualization of crack patterns.

Her research is focused at the capturing, visualizing and fabricating complex, adaptive and changing material appearances in the context of (product) design and cultural heritage. Her research goal is to develop tools and methods for designers and cultural heritage professionals to:

Capture material appearance (and its changes over time)
Visualize and compare material appearances
Manipulate or ‘tinker’ with different material appearances
(Automatically) generate (new) material appearances and
Fabricate complex material appearances based on captured, generated, or created input

Experience

2020 – now
Assistant Professor (tenure track) at Delft University of Technology
2018 – 2020
Teacher/researcher at Delft University of Technology
2013 – 2019
PhD researcher at Delft University of Technology
2011 – 2013
Researcher and project leader, Research Department, Océ Technologies BV

Education

2007 – 2010
Master Strategic Product Design, Delft University of Technology
2003 – 2007
Bachelor Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology