Frank Delbressine is Assistant Professor in the Future Everyday cluster. He leads the Medical Simulation laboratory, the Mobility Laboratory and the Neonatal Simulation lab. Delbressine is interested in Smart Mobility and in Health-related industrial design. He is especially interested in design for Autonomous Vehicles and Medical Simulation. He has a background in mechanical design, engineering and manufacturing.

Delbressine has authored or co-authored around 40 papers on mechanical design, precision engineering, medical simulation and smart mobility. He currently coaches 6 PhD students. He has organized a large conference on Precision Engineering and is author or co-author of three patents.

Expertise
Technology and Realization and in particular everything around Mechanical Design, Engineering and Manufacturing. Math, Data and Computing; especially the Math part.

Squad: Health

Research focus, project topics I like to coach
"I would like to focus on projects in the Health care area, in particular in the area of Medical Simulation. The current focus is on the Perinatal Life Support project (nick named: the Artificial Womb)."

What is your vision on education/coaching?
"I will try to help my graduation students as much as possible. But it is their graduation."

Exemplary graduation projects of students I coached:|
Yff Verstraeten: Designing a ribcage for a neonatal simulator manikin using 3d printing

Monincx, R. Van Loon: Womb Phone: Improving the bonding process in the artificial womb.

Hoveling: Incorporation of a compact soft actuator to mimic the gasp reflex in fetal manikin

A. Van Luijk: Mapping ethical issues of the future application of the artificial womb