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Alberto Pirrera is a Professor of Nonlinear Structural Mechanics at the University of Bristol. He completed his Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering at Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy, and earned his PhD in 2011. He has been a faculty member at Bristol since 2013 and held an EPSRC Early Career Research Fellowship from 2015 to 2020. His research primarily focuses on structural analysis and design optimization, with a recent emphasis on well-behaved nonlinear structures, morphing, and adaptive shape-changing devices, particularly in the context of wind turbine blades. He is also co-director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Composites Science, Engineering, and Manufacturing, and actively participates in various research projects, including the Vestas Prosperity Partnership bid for enhancing wind turbine blade production capacity. His expertise encompasses structural and solid mechanics, nonlinear mechanics, structural stability, computational mechanics, and the development of composite structures suitable for advanced engineering applications.
Department of Physics research themes include Astrophysics, Materials and Devices, Particle Physics, and Quantum and Soft Matter.