Dr. Vito Tagarielli

Biography

Vito Tagarielli graduated cum laude in Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnic Bari, Italy, in 2001. He has teaching experience in a technical high school and studied for a PhD in Materials Solid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 2005 with a thesis on blast impact response in composite sandwich structures. He worked as a Research Associate focusing on fluid-structure interaction during blast events and the aspects of plastic deformation in metals at the micron scale. In 2008, Vito joined the Solid Mechanics Group at the University of Oxford as a Departmental Lecturer in Composite Materials. At Oxford, he worked on research projects related to fluid-structure interaction and deformation fracture of engineering materials, including composites, ceramics, metallic alloys, and cellular solids, particularly at high rates of strain. He is a co-founder of the Impact Engineering Laboratory. Since October 2011, Vito has been a member of the academic staff in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London, focusing on research interests in solid and applied fluid mechanics, impact and blast problems, fluid-structure interaction, micromechanics constitutive modeling of engineering materials, mechanics of composites, experimental techniques in solid mechanics, and computational mechanics applications involving machine learning.

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