Troy Nachtigall

Troy Nachtigall is a designer, former Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow, and Professor of Fashion Research & Technology. He collaborates with AMFI at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and serves as an Assistant Professor at TU/e. Through research-through-design, Troy advances fashion and design via living labs, helping quintuple helix partners address future challenges in projects like NewTexEco. His work focuses on digitalization, exploring data-material relationships, post-industrial personalization, and product-service ecosystem ecologies that support circularity.

As a designer and design researcher, Troy investigates data-material relationships at the bodily scale. In his roles as Research Professor at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and Assistant Professor at TU/e, he leads projects in HCI, personalized computational fabrication, and product-service ecosystems with support from EU and NL research funding. His work cultivates a more-than-human-centered material perspective, proposing alternatives in post-industrial manufacturing and data-enabled lifelong fabrication.

Troy's career bridges industry and academia. He served as a designer for Warnaco Group, working with brands including Hugo Boss, Calvin Klein, and Jean Paul Gaultier Jeans. He has also collaborated on projects with Apple, Microsoft, Fendi, and Beyoncé. His research approach was refined through teaching positions at IUAV, Sapienza, ISIA, and IED, along with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship in ArcInTexETN and postdoctoral research in co-design and shape-change at Aarhus University.

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