Research at the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
We aim to establish a high-quality and attractive research environment for mechanical and materials engineering.
Materials engineering research focuses on solar energy materials and systems, next generation stationary energy storage technologies and light-emitting device technologies.
The focus of mechanical engineering research is on smart systems, laser based manufacturing processes and digital and system design.
Industrial Engineering and Management research focuses on sustainable development and sustainability over business lifecycles.
Research at our department
Industrial Engineering and Management
Automation Engineering
Newest publications
Economic viability of large-scale solar PV implementation in the Nordic power market: Case Finland (2026)
Renewable Energy Focus
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
A review on deep learning for vision-based hand detection, hand segmentation and hand gesture recognition in human-robot interaction (2026)
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal )
Performance evaluation of high latitude agrivoltaic systems with vertically mounted bifacial panels (2026)
Applied Energy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Effect of scan strategies on the tribological properties of maraging steel manufactured by PBF-LB (2026)
Tribology International
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
mer-[InCl3(C5D5N)3]2·C5D5N: A New d5-pyridine Derivative of Indium(III) Chloride Complex (2025)
Journal of the Turkish Chemical Society Section A: Chemistry
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Optimal power dispatch of solar PV-battery storage system for electric vehicle battery swapping stations under grid scheduled load-shedding (2025)
Southern African Universities Power Engineering Conference
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )
High work function large-area carbon black films as conductive, passivated, and hole-selective heterocontact layer for highly efficient solar cells (2025)
Solar Energy
(A1 Refereed data article in a scientific journal)
Testing of additively manufactured aluminium material and cross-sections in compression (2025)
Engineering Structures
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Machine learning accelerated descriptor design for catalyst discovery in CO2 to methanol conversion (2025)
npj Computational Materials
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Effect of joint-edge quality on mechanical properties of laser welded IN718 (2025)
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )