MSE doctoral alumnus Angshuman Kapil awarded Belgian government fellowship to develop hybrid additive manufacturing techniques
Angshuman Kapil graduated in December 2020 from Ohio State with his doctoral degree in materials science and engineering. As a travel enthusiast and budding photographer, he eagerly accepted a postdoctoral fellow position at KU Leuven (Belgium) where he could elevate his career by researching welding-based additive manufacturing and pursue his hobbies in his free time.
The Belgian government recently offered him a three-year fellowship to continue his postdoc under the junior postdoctoral fellowship, which is funded by The Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO). The junior postdoctoral fellowship is designed “to support researchers who have only recently completed their PhD, in developing an independent, international research career.”1
Dr. Kapil will remain at KU Leuven for the duration of the junior postdoctoral fellowship (3 years), which commences in October. His research concentration will transition from wire-arc based additive manufacturing to hybridizing additive manufacturing techniques: “The goal is to utilize conventional arc and resistance welding processes and combine them to develop a next generation hybrid, fast and energy efficient sheet lamination additive manufacturing process.”
Throughout his five years at Ohio State, Kapil was a researcher with the Impulse Manufacturing Laboratory, where he concentrated on applications for impulse welding techniques developed by Mars G. Fontana Professor and IML Director Glenn Daehn. He credits Ohio State with providing him with the experience in advanced, specialized applications and novel manufacturing solutions needed in industry.
“The Ohio State University, specifically working with Professor Glenn Daehn and his research team, helped me immensely in securing this highly competitive fellowship. Success rate of landing a junior postdoctoral fellowship with FWO is only 25%. The work I did leading up to my Ph.D. and the publications that resulted thereof, combined with the research internships in China and Germany strengthened my application. Also, the knowledge of broader aspects of sheet metal joining will be largely utilized in this fellowship. Overall, having a degree in materials science and engineering from Ohio State provided an edge that got me where I am today.”
Angshuman Kapil graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Gauhati University (BS, 2012) and went on to complete a MS in Mechanical Engineering with a specialization in manufacturing engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (MS, 2015).
By Libby Culley, Communications | Department of Materials Science and Engineering | culley.36@osu.edu
1 FWO. Junior postdoctoral fellowship. https://www.fwo.be/en/fellowships-funding/postdoctoral-fellowships/junior-postdoctoral-fellowship/. Accessed June 14, 2021.
