Smart Textiles with Topher Anderson
Topher Anderson, PhD (he/him)
Technical Director, ZSK USA, Inc.
Textile Topher (Dr. Christopher Anderson) is an interdisciplinary textile engineer whose research focus investigates utilizing technical embroidery machines to solve smart textiles, e-textiles, and composites problems. Using the techniques of tailored fiber placement (TFP) and tailored wire placement (TWP), Topher provides solutions and samples to different industry partners. He has designed and analyzed complex carbon fiber composite preforms for the aerospace and automotive industry and has additionally created and programmed customized smart textile flexible circuits for various technology companies. Topher particularly enjoys working as a bridge between designers and engineers helping them to visualize and adopt new textile solutions. In his free time, Topher enjoys creating e-textile and embedded circuit programming tutorials to help mentor growing STEM students. Most weekends you can find him either dancing Argentine Tango or drawing with a cup of Earl Grey tea.
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