Pablo Zavattieri
Main research area: Application of New Materials and Technologies
Biography
Pablo Zavattieri is the Jerry M. and Lynda T. Engelhardt Professor in Civil Engineering at Purdue University. His current research lies at the interface between solid mechanics, modeling and materials engineering. He has recently focused on how the combination of materials and architecture lead to new emergent materials behavior through counterintuitive mechanisms and clever geometries. His engineering and scientific curiosity has focused on the fundamental aspects of how Nature uses elegant and efficient ways to make remarkable and more sustainable materials. He has contributed to the area of biomimetic materials by investigating the structure-function relationship of naturally-occurring high-performance materials at multiple length-scales, combining state-of-the-art computational techniques and experiments to characterize the properties. His current research program includes the study of remarkable naturally-occurring architectures and the translation to engineering materials, such as 3D printing of cementitious-based materials in collaboration with Jan Olek and Jeff Youngblood. Zavattieri received his BS/MS degrees from the Balseiro Institute and PhD from Purdue University. Before he joined Purdue University, he worked at the General Motors Research and Development Center for 9 years, where he led research activities in the general areas of computational solid mechanics, smart and biomimetic materials.