Dr. Vito Tagarielli

Biography

Vito Tagarielli graduated cum laude in Mechanical Engineering from Polytechnic Bari, Italy, in 2001. He has teaching experience at a technical high school and completed his PhD in Materials Solid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge in 2005, focusing on the blast impact response of composite sandwich structures. Following his PhD, he worked as a Research Associate on fluid-structure interaction in blast events, specifically examining plastic deformation of metals at the micron scale. In 2008, he joined the Solid Mechanics Group at the University of Oxford as a Departmental Lecturer in Composite Materials, where he conducted research on fluid-structure interaction and the deformation and fracture of engineering materials, including composites, ceramics, metallic alloys, and cellular solids under high rates of strain. Vito co-founded the Impact Engineering Laboratory and joined the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London in October 2011 as a member of the academic staff. His research interests encompass solid mechanics and applied fluid mechanics, including impact and blast problems, fluid-structure interaction, micromechanics, constitutive modelling of engineering materials, mechanics of composites, experimental techniques in solid mechanics, and computational mechanics applications, including machine learning.

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