Jan Torgersen

Personal bio
Jan Torgersen received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Vienna University of Technology in 2013, where he was pioneering in a high-resolution 3D printing process called two-photon polymerization. Constructing a new experimental setup and collaborating on the synthesis of novel biocompatible photopolymerizable resins, he and his colleagues developed a process called in vivo writing, where hydrogel constructs could be polymerized directly in the presence of living cells and organisms to produce dynamic synthetic extracellular matrices. Individual cues of the network could be tuned to investigate their influence on cell responses. Torgersen joined the Nanoscale Prototyping Laboratory at Stanford University as Post-Doc in 2014, where he worked on high-k perovskite oxide coatings for DRAM applications. Together with his colleagues and various industrial partners, a new process for conformal deposition of such oxides on high aspect ratio structures was developed. The electronic and geometric configuration was probed and tuned utilizing synchrotron based X-ray absorption. Torgersen still visits the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford each summer, where teaches the course ME232- Additive Manufacturing each summer quarter since 2016. Since October 2016, Torgersen is Associate Professor at NTNU Trondheim, where he continues his work on 3D printing. He focusses on materials design at various scale levels reasoning macroscopic properties with nanoscale effects. Specifically, he is developing topics around compliant design as well as bottom up material synthesis from the atomic layer level.