Multidisciplinary design optimization · Additive manufacturing · TU Eindhoven
I'm a final-year mechanical engineering student at TU Eindhoven. My work sits where the disciplines couple, aerodynamics against structures and geometry against what a machine can actually build. I hold all of it inside one optimization loop, then carry the result through to hardware.
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Coupled multi-fidelity loops: BEMT screening, OpenFOAM RANS and CalculiX FEA evaluated under one objective set. NSGA-II multi-objective search with pymoo, Pareto trade-offs between efficiency and structural margin, GP/RBF surrogates, topology optimization (SIMP).
Design for additive manufacturing: splitting parts around the build envelope, press-fit joints that resist shear, print orientation and plate nesting, print-time and material budgeting. Materials across PLA, PLA resin, TPU and SLS nylon. Generative design taken from CAD through print to measured test.
OpenFOAM (RANS), CalculiX, Marc Mentat, Fusion 360 simulation. Direct Stiffness Method solvers written from scratch, Euler buckling and hand calculation kept as the check on every solver result.
SolidWorks (Certified SolidWorks Associate, 2026), Siemens NX, Fusion 360 including generative design, FreeCAD. FDM and SLS printing, fabrication planning for steel and plywood builds, physical mock-ups to resolve joint geometry.
Requirements definition and flow-down, V-model verification planning, FMEA, trade studies and concept selection, mass/power/energy budget closure.
Engine test-bench measurement chains, signal conditioning and filter selection, uncertainty propagation. Python for solver automation and data processing, MATLAB/Simulink/Stateflow, LabVIEW, Git, embedded control on Arduino and Raspberry Pi.
Now: final-year BSc Mechanical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, on an 8.3/10 weighted average, which is high for a programme that grades hard. Coursework and projects across the breadth of the discipline: fluids, structures, dynamics, control, and design.
How I work: optimization is only worth as much as the model under it, and a model is only worth as much as the part it produces. So I try to hold the whole chain. Couple the physics, run the search, then check the winning geometry against what a printer or a workshop can actually make. My propeller optimization pipeline is entirely self-initiated, and it's where most of my CFD, FEA and optimization tooling came from, well beyond the curriculum.
Languages: Estonian (native), English (C2).
Where I'm headed: multidisciplinary design optimization and additive manufacturing, and specifically the place where the two meet. Optimizers now produce geometry no conventional process could cut, and printing is what makes those shapes real, which also means the manufacturing constraints belong inside the optimization, not after it. Aerospace, robotics and energy all have that shape, and I'm open to any of them. Estonian citizen, based in Eindhoven's Brainport region and connected to the engineering community in Tallinn.
Looking for: internships and student engineering roles in simulation, design, mechatronics, or test, anywhere in Europe.
I competed in Ten Dance for close to fifteen years. It is the discipline that asks for all five Standard dances and all five Latin, two techniques with little in common, scored as one. I was Estonian champion at under-21 and finished twelfth at the WDSF Under-21 World Championship in Ten Dance.
I stopped competing at the end of 2025. That was a decision rather than a drift: the hours it takes to stay at that level are the hours I now want in engineering.
What it actually built is less romantic than people expect: being corrected daily on details no regular audience would notice, delivering at full commitment in the fifteenth hour of a competition day, and working in a partnership whose only channel is physical and unforgiving of hesitation. I'd rather point at those habits than claim the sport taught me engineering.
Based in Eindhoven, connected to Tallinn. If you work on simulation-driven design, optimization or additive manufacturing, or anything where the model and the hardware have to agree, let's talk.