4TU.Alumni Nordics Online Tour - Virtual lunch visits with young researchers

Monday November 24th

12:00-12:30 (CET)

Alice Petry, PhD Candidate - Aalto University (Finland)

Alice Petry is a doctoral researcher at Aalto University’s Marine and Arctic Technology Group. Her research focuses on studying sea ice loads on offshore wind turbines at model-scale. She is carrying out experiments at the Aalto Ice and Wave Tank, combining a real-time hybrid test setup with ice basin testing.

Alice has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Twente’s ATLAS program, where she focused on numerical methods in mechanical engineering. After her bachelor’s degree, she joined the student team RoboTeam Twente for a year, where she was responsible for the mechanical design of small autonomous football robots. She participated in the Robocup 2019 in Sydney, Australia. She then moved to Finland to pursue a MSc in Mechancial Engineering at Aalto University and wrote her thesis on the fatigue of large, welded ship structures in collaboration with Meyer Turku shipyard. After her doctoral degree, she is planning on moving to Trondheim, Norway.

Monday November 24th

12:35-13:00 (CET)

Myrthe Tilleman, PhD Candidate - University of Oslo (Norway)

Myrthe Tilleman is a PhD Research Fellow at the University of Oslo’s Sustainable Immersive Networking Lab (SINLAB). She works at the intersection of networked interactions, neuroscience, and robotics, using brain–computer interfaces, EEG, and predictive models to anticipate user actions and reduce latency with the goal to make remote, immersive interaction feel more natural.

Her journey began at the University of Twente’s ATLAS program, focusing on AI and neuroscience. She then completed an MSc in Human Neuroscience at the University of Turku (Finland) and wrote her thesis at Össur (Iceland) on sensory feedback for bionic prostheses. Now based in Oslo (Norway), she is passionate about human‑centric technology, interdisciplinary collaboration, and turning research into real‑world impact.

Tuesday November 25th

12:00-12:30 (CET)

Jooyoung Park, PhD Candidate - KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)

Jooyoung Park is a PhD candidate in Interaction Design at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. She works at the intersections of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), design, and Science and Technology Studies (STS). Her work examines how people co-constitute bodily knowledge using technology and designs alternative care technologies, especially for women’s health and chronic conditions.

Jooyoung gets inspiration from critical feminist scholarship, and uses new materials (e.g., soft robotics and shape-changing materials) and soma design approach. She holds an MSc in Design for Interaction from TU Delft (NL), and BAs in Information Science and Culture Studies (ISC) and German Language Education from Seoul National University (KR).

Thursday November 27th

12:00-12:30 (CET)

Hanna Ross Alipio, PhD Candidate - The Arctic University of Norway

Hanna is a PhD Research Fellow at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway, where she investigates how environmental ammonia influences the ontogeny of the stress axis in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Her research advances our understanding of how early-life conditions in aquaculture shape development, growth, and stress responsiveness, informing practices that support fish welfare and performance.

Hanna’s interest in salmon biology began during her master’s studies at Wageningen University & Research (WUR) through a collaboration with Nofima in Norway. Since then, she has become deeply engaged in the molecular mechanisms of early-life stress in Atlantic salmon and is committed to unlocking the STRENGTHS that can shape salmon's success and resilience in the face of aquaculture challenges . identifying the factors that drive resilience and success in aquaculture.

Thursday November 27th

12:35-13:00 (CET)

Nick Burlet, PhD Candidate - Technical University of Denmark

Nick Burlet obtained his bachelor (biomedical engineering) and both his master degrees (biomedical engineering and science education & communication) at the Einhoven University of Technology (TU/e) before moving to the Section for Biologics Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) for his PhD.

Nick is currently working on the development of a nanobody-based recombinant antivenom that can broadly neutralize the venoms of the 18 most medically relevant elapid snake species of sub-Saharan Africa (including cobras and mambas). He is dedicated to translate this research into a safer, more effective, and more affordable antivenom for the hundreds of thousands of snakebite victims in Africa every year.