Dr. Krishna Kumar Saxena

Biography:

Krishna Saxena is currently working as a senior FWO postdoctoral fellow in department of mechanical engineering at KU Leuven, Belgium after serving first term as FWO junior postdoctoral fellow. He is also serving as a lecturer at KU Leuven Campus Bruges and Geel. During Nov. 2022 – Feb. 2023, he worked as a visiting assistant professor/visiting FWO postdoc at department of precision engineering at University of Tokyo, Japan. He obtained his Ph.D. degree as a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher (EU H2020 Microman) in mechanical engineering from KU Leuven, Belgium, in 2020 and thereafter worked as a postdoctoral research engineer on the EU project PROSURF. His doctoral research was sponsored by two European projects: European Marie Curie ITN H2020 project ‘MICROMAN’ and EU Factories of Future project ‘PROSURF’ while receiving trainings on different manufacturing and metrology aspects at European/UK universities (U-Bremen, PoliMi, DTU, U-Bradford, U-Nottingham, U-Strathclyde). He has also conducted short research stays at TU Chemnitz, Germany during his doctoral research. He carried out his master thesis research exchange at Institute of metal forming technology, University of Stuttgart, Germany (2016) while pursuing masters at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar and subsequently also worked as a researcher at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Centre for Advanced Composite Materials, University of Auckland, New Zealand (2015). He has 8+ years of research experience in various aspects of subtractive non-traditional manufacturing technologies. Talk Title: The future of micro and precision electrical machining research: Going beyond holes and steels