Prof. Dr. Bastian Telgen
Prof. Dr. Bastian Telgen
ZHAW
School of Engineering
Research Group Multiphysics Modeling and Imaging
Technikumstrasse 71
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position
Professor of Multiphysics Modeling - Institute of Computational Physics
Experience
- Senior R&D Engineer / Project Lead
Kistler Instruments AG
2023 - 2026 - PhD student / Postdoc
ETH Zurich - Mechanics & Materials Lab
2017 - 2023 - Graduate Researcher
Caltech - Daraio Research Group
2016 - 2017 - Research Assistant (part-time, hybrid)
Fraunhofer IWES / German Aerospace Center (DLR)
2014 - 2017 - Co-founder
BirdPlane @YES!Delft
2014 - 2016
Education and Continuing education
Education
- Doctor of Sciences / Mechanical Engineering
ETH Zurich
2017 - 2022 - Master of Science / Mechanical Engineering
ETH Zurich
2015 - 2017 - Bachelor of Science / Aerospace Engineering
TU Delft
2011 - 2014
Continuing Education
Didactics Certificate
ETH Zurich
2021
Network
ORCID digital identifier
Awards
- Innovation Award
Kistler Instruments AG
09 / 2025 - Dutch Aerospace Award
Nederlands Lucht- en Ruimtevaart Fonds
09 / 2015 - Bachelor Award
TU Delft
03 / 2015 - Scholarship
German Academic Scholarship Foundation
07 / 2012
Social media
Publications before appointment at the ZHAW
- Telgen, B., Kannan, V., Bail, J.-C., Dorn, C., Niese, H., & Kochmann, D. M. (2024). Rainbow trapping of out-of-plane mechanical waves in spatially variant beam lattices. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 191, 105762.
- Bastek, J.-H., Kumar, S., Telgen, B., Glaesener, R. N., & Kochmann, D. M. (2022). Inverting the structure–property map of truss metamaterials by deep learning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(1), e2111505119.
- Telgen, B., Sigmund, O., & Kochmann, D. M. (2022). Topology Optimization of Graded Truss Lattices Based on On-the-Fly Homogenization. Journal of Applied Mechanics, 89(6), 061006.
- Glaesener, R. N., Träff, E. A., Telgen, B., Canonica, R. M., & Kochmann, D. M. (2020). Continuum representation of nonlinear three-dimensional periodic truss networks by on-the-fly homogenization. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 206, 101–113.
- Glaesener, R. N., Lestringant, C., Telgen, B., & Kochmann, D. M. (2019). Continuum models for stretching- and bending-dominated periodic trusses undergoing finite deformations. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 171, 117–134.