Welcoming Matteo Pezzulla
The MOSS lab welcomes Matteo Pezzulla, a visiting Ph.D. student from Università di Roma, Sapienza. Matteo is a graduate student studying the mechanics of solids and structures with his Ph.D. advisor, Paola Nardinocchi (Web). Professor Nardinocchi’s research covers a wide range of topics within the area of Soft, Active Materials (SAM), and Matteo’s interests lie in the mechanics of swelling thin plates. Thin structures that swell undergo large geometrically nonlinear deformations, and the focus of Matteo’s four month visit will be to develop an experimental system whose general features can be described using techniques from differential geometry, and verified through computational modeling.
