About – Jose Martinez Castro

Jose Martinez Castro is a design engineer developing products and interactive experiences. His background in both industrial design and mechanical engineering gives him the perfect balance to find creative solutions to problems and realizing the technical challenges of the project. His main skills are in product development with computational design, mechanical CAD design + product visualization, and hardware + software prototyping for interactive electronics.

Currently, Jose works as a design engineer at Nova Innova designing interactive, outdoor lighting installations powered by bacteria, while also providing freelance design engineering services to a variety of clients.

He has prior experience as a researcher with the Materials Experience Lab at the TU Delft for 2 years exploring computational design, additive manufacturing, bio/living materials, and interactive digital tools. Additionally, he gave lectures and coached design students at the TU Delft Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering in computational design, mechatronics, mechanics of materials, and 3D modeling. During his studies, he interned for multiple biomedical companies and research labs (2 years of internship experience) gaining experience in medical product development and mechanical design.

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Publications

Mehmet Ozdemir, Marwa AlAlawi, Mustafa Doga Dogan, Jose Francisco Martinez Castro, Stefanie Mueller, and Zjenja Doubrovski. 2024. Speed-Modulated Ironing: High-Resolution Shade and Texture Gradients in Single-Material 3D Printing. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3654777.3676456

Willemijn Elkhuizen, Anne van den Dool, Jose Martinez Castro, Wolf Song, Mehmet Ozdemir, Zjenja Doubrovski, Toon Huysmans (2024). In W.S. Elkhuizen (Ed.), Computational Design for (Industrial) Designers using Rhino Grasshopper. Delft University of Technology. https://doi.org/10.59490/tb.87

Clarice Risseeuw, Jose Francisco Martinez Castro, Pascal Barla, and Elvin Karana. 2023. FlavoMetrics: Towards a Digital Tool to Understand and Tune Living Aesthetics of Flavobacteria. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2079–2092. https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596085

Jose Francisco Martinez Castro, Alice Buso, Jun Wu, and Elvin Karana. 2022. TEX(alive): a Toolkit to Explore Temporal Expressions in Shape-changing Textile Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1162–1176. https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533515

Esfandiari H, Martinez JF, Alvarez AG, Guy P, Street J, Anglin C, Hodgson AJ. An automated, robust and closed form mini-RSA system for intraoperative C-arm calibration. In: Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 2017, Barcelona, Spain, 12(Supplement 1). doi: 10.1007/s11548-017-1588-3

Services

Concept Design

Interactive Electronics

Design for Manufacturing

Computational Design

Mechanical CAD Design

Product Visualization + Animation

Clients

Nova Innova / Living Light

Dynamic Escape Rooms

Foundation Devices

Helpwear

Experience

Nova Innova / Living Light
Industrial Design Engineer

Delft University of Technology
Lecturer and Researcher

Avans University of Applied Sciences
Researcher

Arbustus Medical
Mechanical Engineering Intern

Evasc Medical
Mechanical Engineering Intern

UBC Aerodynamics Lab
Mechanical Engineering Intern

Centre for Hip Health and Mobility
Biomedical Research Intern

University of Calgary
Biomedical Research Intern

Education

Delft University of Technology
Master's of Integrated Product Design

University of British Columbia
Bachelor's of Mechanical Engineering

Contact

Based in The Netherlands

studio@josemartinezcastro.com