Lode Vermeulen

I am a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam working between physics and AI, jointly in the Machine Materials Lab (Corentin Coulais) and AMLab (Jan-Willem van de Meent).

My research focuses on gradient-based inverse design of metamaterials: writing differentiable simulators in JAX to optimize material geometry, and testing the resulting designs in the lab.

Before starting my PhD, I completed my MSc and BSc in Physics at UvA—working on differentiable elastoplasticity and formalizing quantum optics theorems in Lean—and co-founded Legalflow.