H. (Hanchu) Sun MSc

H. (Hanchu) Sun MSc

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Hanchu Sun is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology. His PhD research centers on exploring design interventions that can help to strengthen the newness value (a.k.a epistemic value) that consumers perceive in owned consumer electronics, thereby fostering prolonged product usage and mitigating premature obsolescence. This PhD research is part of the VICI-grant project on 'Slowing down premature obsolescence: keeping the value in consumer electronics high by design'. He joined the IDE faculty as a PhD candidate in April 2024.

In 2023, Hanchu obtained his MSc in Strategic Product Design with cum laude (i.e., distinction) from the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft. He had previously graduated in 2019 with a Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Design from the University of Liverpool, UK.

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