Born on December 29, 1962. Graduated in Engineering in 1987. PhD in Structural Mechanics in 1992. Professor of Mechanics of Solids and Structures since 2005 at the Università di Roma “La Sapienza”. Member of the Department of Structural Engineering and Geotechnics. Member of the Teaching Advisory Board - PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (Sapienza - Università di Roma), Member of the Executive Council of the Centro di Ricerca per le Nanotecnologie applicate all'Ingegneria della Sapienza (CNIS), Member of the Editorial Board of Applied and Computational Mechanics (ACM), Member of the Editorial Board of Mechanics of Soft Materials (Springer), Member of the Review Editorial Board of Frontiers in Materials (mechanics of Materials Group). Member of the: Italian Research Group in Mathematical Physics (GNFM), Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (AIMETA), Italian Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SIMAI), European Mechanics Society (EUROMECH), Society for Natural Philosophy (SPN), American Physical Society (APS), Società Italiana di Scienza delle Costruzioni (SISCo).
Fields of interest: nonlinear mechanics of soft active solids and structures; swelling-driven mechanics of polymeric materials; design and control of stimuli-responsive materials; modeling muscle contraction; cardiac mechanics; compatibility issues in nonlinear mechanics.