Marie Curie PhD vacancy (DC8) for PhD research titled "Additive manufacturing of ceramics…

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Engineering » Materials engineering. Researcher profile: First Stage Researcher (R1). EU funding: Horizon Europe - MSCA Reference Number BAP-2026-589 Marie Curie Grant Agreement Number 0. KU Leuven seeks a highly motivated PhD candidate for a fully funded, four-year international doctoral position within the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network (MSCA-DN) project TURBO-IMPACT (TURBOmachinery Innovative Manufacturing, Processing, Analysis, Characterization, and Topology ; Website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101311350 ). The TurboImpact project, funded by Horizon Europe – MSCA-DN, tackles challenges in designing, optimizing, selecting materials, and manufacturing small-scale turbomachinery for applications in heat pumps, fuel cells, organic Rankine cycles, or gas turbines. This project develops robust system and component design methods, an integrated manufacturing platform, and multi-material joining techniques to efficiently produce small-scale turbomachinery. In this EU project, this PhD researcher (DC8) will focus on the complete indirect DLP/SLA additive manufacturing route for silicon nitride turbomachinery components. This involves the development of a UV-curable Si3N4 slurry, optimization of DLP/SLA printing strategies for reference parts and complex components such as impellers, and the post-printing debinding and sintering process to obtain fully dense complex near-net-shaped ceramic components. The AM parts will be microstructurally, mechanically and geome

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