Ellen Roels

Ellen Roels (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in engineering in 2023. She started her Ph.D. Research with the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, in 2018, where she is with the Physical Chemistry and Polymer Science and the Robotics and Multibody Mechanics Research Groups. In 2019, she obtained a personal grant from Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, Brussels. Her research focuses on the study and development of processing techniques for self-healing polymers and the development of self-healing sensors for soft robots.