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 OcĂ© 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 Vermeerâs âGirl with a Pearl Earringâ, to evaluate the techniqueâs 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 âtinkerâ with different material appearances
- (Automatically) generate (new) material appearances and
- Fabricate complex material appearances based on captured, generated, or created input
Experience
- 2020 â now
Assistant Professor (tenure track) at Delft University of Technology - 2018 â 2020
Teacher/researcher at Delft University of Technology - 2013 â 2019
PhD researcher at Delft University of Technology - 2011 â 2013
Researcher and project leader, Research Department, Océ Technologies BV
Education
- 2007 â 2010
Master Strategic Product Design, Delft University of Technology - 2003 â 2007
Bachelor Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology
Specialisation/Field of research
- 3D scanning
- 3D printing
- Material appearance capturing, visualization and fabrication
- Application domains: (Product) design and Cultural Heritage
Lectures/Coaches students on
- IO-MI-221 Minor Advanced Prototyping (coordinator)
- Graduation projects
Involved in the research project(s):

Willemijn Elkhuizen
- +31 15 27 81041
- w.s.elkhuizen@tudelft.nl
-
Room 32-B-3-220
"One must work and dare if one really wants to live."