Kamila Handke

Kamila Handke obtained her bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering and Chemistry from Eindhoven University of Technology. For her Bachelor project she explored the efficiency and physical properties of perovskite solar cells at low temperatures in the Molecular Materials and Nanosystems group under Prof. René Janssen. During her bachelor studies she took part in two projects in the Stimuli-responsive Functional Materials & Devices group of Prof. Michael Debije, focusing on light- and temperature-responsive chiral liquid crystal elastomer actuators. Currently in her first year of the Nanoscience Master’s program at the University of Groningen, Kamila joined the Lerch group in February 2024 for a research project investigating mechanical response of liquid crystal elastomer networks to external stimuli.