Antonio de Simone
Professore ordinario di Scienza delle Costruzioni nella Scuola Superiore
Sant'Anna di Pisa

- s.c.r..eletto il 15 luglio 2021

Carriera accademica
- Professore di Scienza delle Costruzioni dal 20.12.2002 (alla Sissa di Trieste fino al 19.12.2017,
anche presso l'Istituto di Biorobotica della Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa dal
20.12.2017)
- Direttore del gruppo di ricerca "Multiscale Phenomena in Materials", Max Planck Institute for
Mathematics in the Sciences , Leipzig, Germania (1998-2002)
- Ricercatore, Università di Roma Tor Vergata (1990-1998)
- Postdoctoral Associate, Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh (PA), USA (1993-1994)
- PhD in Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (MN), USA, 1992
- Laurea (cum laude) in Ingegneria Civile, Università di Napoli Federico II, 1987
Pubblicazioni
I suoi interessi di ricerca riguardano la meccanica teorica e computazionale di sistemi biologici
(e.g., motilità di organismi biologici e di robot bio-ispirati) e di materiali nuovi, le interazioni multifisica e i fenomeni di "pattern formation driven by rough energy landscapes".
È autore di oltre 140 articoli peer—reviewed pubblicati sia su riviste internazionali multidisciplinari (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Proceedings of the Royal
Society, ...) sia su riviste specialistiche che abbracciano un ampio spettro di discipline:
dall'ingegneria (J Mech Phys Solids, Macromolecules, Comp Methods in Applied Mechanics and
Engineering,...) alla fisica (Phys Rev Letters, Nature Physics, ...) alla matematica (Archive Rat Mech
Analysis, Calc Var and PDEs, SIAM J Math Analysis,...). Il suo h-index è 43 (Google Scholar; 36
secondo Scopus).
Plenary lectures
- ICTAM 2020, Sectional lecturer (Solid Mechanics), Milano 2020
- 2019 Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals, Discussion leader (USA, 2019)
- 11th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (Lisbon, 2018)
- 19th International Conference on Finite Elements in Flow Problems (Roma, FEF 2017)
- 5th Italian National Congress of Bioengineering (Napoli 2016)
- SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science (Philadelphia, 2013)
- XI Congresso Nazionale SIMAI (Politecnico di Torino, 2012)
- 8th European Symposium on Martensitic Transformations (Prague, 2009)
- 7th Euromech Solid Mechanics Conference (Lisbon, 2009)
- GAMM2004 (Dresden, 2004)
Awards and Honors
- Grant personale dall'Istituto Nazionale dell'Alta Matematica "F. Severi" per attività di ricerca su
"Mathematical Challenges in Nanomechanics" (2006)
- Keith Medal della Royal Society of Edinburgh (2007)
- Prix La Recherche (2010)
- Outstanding Paper Award della Japanese Liquid Crystal Society (2011)
- Visiting Fellow, Newton Institute e Clare Hall (University of Cambridge, January-July 2013)
- Life member, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (dal 2013)
- Membro corrispondente, Accademia Pontaniana, Napoli (eletto nel 2013)
- ERC Advanced Grant (ERC-2013-AdG - 340685_Micro-Motility, 2014-2019)
- EuroMech Fellow (eletto nel 2015)
- Visiting Fellow, Corpus Christi College (University of Cambridge, September 2017- August 2018)
- Joliot-Curie Chair, ESPCI, Paris (2018)
- Visiting Scholar, Pembroke College (University of Cambridge, January - July 2019)
- Humboldt-Forschungspreis (2019)
Visiting positions and invited lectures
Ampia esperienza internazionale come professore invitato (research appointments: University of
Minnesota, Universite' Paris XIII, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications-Minneapolis, Isaac
Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences-Cambridge). Conferenziere invitato in molte
università in Italia, Europa (Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial College, Warwick; Ecole Polytechnique,
Paris 6, 11, 13, ESPCI, ENS; Universities of Bonn, Hannover, Stuttgart, Technical Universities of
Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Lisbon, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Charles University in Prague,
University of Ljubljana), negli USA (Caltech, Harvard, MIT, Tufts, Courant Institute at NYU,
Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Penn State University), in Giappone (Universities of Tokyo
and Kyoto, Tohoku and Ochanomizu Universities), e Cina (Fudan and Shanghai Jiao-Tong
Universities).
Lecturer al CISM, Udine, Advanced Schools on `Rank-one convexity, Quasiconvexity and
Polyconvexity in Applied Mechanics' (2007), `Mechanics and Electrodynamics of Magneto- and
Electro-Elastic Materials' (2009), `Variational Approaches to Damage' (2013), `Computational
Biomechanics - Advanced Models and Methods' (2020).
È stato invitato a tenere corsi su "Mechanics of cell motility" alla 36ma Ravello Summer School of
Mathematical Physics nel 2011, all' Institute d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese nel 2012, e su "The
Mathematics of Mechano-Biology" al Cetraro International Mathematical Summer Centre (CIME)
nel 2018.
Organizzazione di convegni scientifici e conferenze internazionali (selection)
- SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, Bilbao 2020 (member of the
Scientific Committee)
- 25th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics, Vienna 7-10 July 2019 (member of the
Scientific Committee)
- MicroMotility2019: International workshop on biological motility and bio-inspired microrobotics, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti, Venezia 25-29 marzo 2019
- CISM Advanced Schools on `Mechanobiology of the Cell: theory and experiments on the
mechanics of life' (2018), on `Mechanobiology of Cells and Tissues: Motility and Morphogenesis'
(2014), and on `Brittle Fracture and Plastic Slip: from the Atomistic to the Engineering Scale'
(2008).
- The first IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics - RoboSoft 2018, Livorno, 24-28
April 2018 (co-chair of the interdisciplinary program)
- Euglena Day - A satellite workshop to IEEE-RAS RoboSoft 2018, Research Center on Sea
Technologies and Marine Robotics, Livorno, 23 April 2018
- Annual European Rheology Conference 2018, Symposium on Living and Active Matter, Sorrento,
17-20 April 2018
- 14th International Conference on Free Boundary Problems (FBP2017), Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, 9-14 July 2017 (member of the Scientific Committee)
- International Workshop on Mathematical Problems for Orientationally Ordered Soft Solids, BIRSCasa Matematica Oaxaca, Mexico, 5-9 September 2016
-International workshop on "Advances in the Mathematical Analysis of Material Defects in Elastic
Solids", SISSA, Trieste, 6-10 June 2016
- 8th International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference and Workshop on Active Liquid Crystals
and Gels (21st International School on Liquid Crystals). Centro di Cultura Scientifica Ettore
Majorana, Erice (2015)
- Workshop on `Solid and Active Liquid Crystals' organized within the programme `Mathematics of
Liquid Crystals', Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge (2013)
- workshop series on "Material Theories" at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach
(2007, 2009, 2013, 2017)
- Workshop on `Mathematics and Mechanics in the Search for New Materials', Banff International
Research Station, Canada (2013)
- School and Workshop on `Mathematics and Physics of Soft and Biological Matter', Abdus Salam
International Center of Theoretical Physics, Trieste (2011)
- SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, Philadelphia, USA (2008)
- workshops `Young Researchers in the Mechanics of Materials and Structures' (2008-2014, yearly)
Editorial Boards
-Applied Mathematics Research eXpress (2003-2012)
-Networks and Heterogeneous Media (2005-2020)
-Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics (2005-2012)
-SIAM Journal of Mathematical Analysis (2007-2012)
-Mathematical Problems in Engineering (2012-2013)
-Journal of Nonlinear Science (2012-2017)
-International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics (dal 2014)
-Acta Applicandae Mathematicae (dal 2014)
-Soft Robotics (dal 2014)
-Frontiers in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (dal 2018)
-Mathematics in Engineering (Editor-in-Chief) (dal 2018)
Attività di servizio
- Delegato al Trasferimento Tecnologico del Direttore della SISSA (2008-2012)
- Membro eletto del Senato Accademico della SISSA (2012-2016)
- Membro del Consiglio Scientifico del Consorzio per la ricerca avanzata in ingegneria navale della
Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia (Ditenave, trasformato in MareTC FVG nel 2015)
- Membro dello Scientific Council del CISM-International Center for Mechanical Sciences, Udine,
Italy (dal 2012)
- Membro della commissione ASN per il settore 08-B2 Scienza delle Costruzioni (2012-2014)
- Membro della Commission de recrutement du Département de Mécanique de l'Ecole
Polytechnique, Palaiseau, Francia (2019-2021)
Gruppi di ricerca e laboratori
Coordinatore di diversi gruppi di ricerca multidisciplinare aventi lo scopo di affrontare problemi
nelle scienze applicate (in particolare, in meccanica dei materiali e di sistemi biologici) attraverso
lo sviluppo e l'analisi di modelli matematici, la loro simulazione numerica, e il confronto con
l'evidenza sperimentale:
- Independent research group on `Multiscale Phenomena in Materials' al Max Planck Institute for
Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germania, dal 1998 al 2002.
- SISSA Mathlab: the laboratory for Applied Mathematics at SISSA (http://mathlab.sissa.it/),Trieste (dal 2010)
- SAMBA: laboratory for Sensing And Moving Bio-inspired Artifacts (http://samba.sissa.it/), Trieste(dal 2012)