Roberto Ballarini

About

Roberto Ballarini is the Thomas and Laura Hsu Professor and Department Chair at the University of Houston, USA. His research focuses on advanced materials and structural mechanics, particularly in the fields of ice elasticity, mechanical metamaterials, and the buckling of spherical shells. He has published extensively on topics such as fracture phase field frameworks, damage-plasticity modeling, and the mechanical properties of hierarchical materials inspired by natural shells.