DrVito Tagarielli

Vito Tagarielli graduated cum laude in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic of Bari (Italy) in 2001. After a teaching experience in a technical high school, he studied for a PhD in Materials and Solid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge (Centre for Micromechanics), graduating in 2005 with a thesis on the blast and impact response of composite sandwich structures. Then, as a Research Associate, he worked at fluid-structure interaction during blast events and at aspects of plastic deformation of 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. In Oxford he worked at different research projects on fluid-structure interaction and on deformation and fracture of engineering materials (including composites, ceramics, metallic alloys and cellular solids) at high rates of strain. He was a co-founder of the Impact Engineering Laboratory.

Vito joined the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial in October 2011 as a member of the academic staff. His research interests are in solid, applied and fluid mechanics, and include: impact and blast problems, fluid-structure interaction; micromechanics and constitutive modelling of engineering materials; mechanics of composites; experimental techniques in solid mechanics; computational mechanics and applications of machine learning.