Matteo Pezzulla

Matteo Pezzulla is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering at Aarhus University in Denmark. His research lies at the intersection of solid and fluid mechanics, with a focus on soft hydraulics. He studies the mechanics of compliant fluidic networks and the role of elastic instabilities in soft valves. Pezzulla received his PhD in theoretical and applied mechanics from Sapienza University of Rome and held postdoctoral positions at Boston University and at the Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). His work seeks to understand how the deformation of soft structures can be harnessed to passively control fluid flows.