Antonio De Simone
Antonio De Simone , often DeSimone in English publications, (* 1962 in Naples ) is an Italian engineer and applied mathematician.
De Simone studied civil engineering at the University of Naples Federico II with a Laureate degree in 1987 and received a PhD in mechanics from the University of Minnesota in 1992 . As a post-doctoral student he was at Carnegie Mellon University in 1993/94 and researched at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome from 1990 to 1998 . From 1998 to 2003 he was head of a research group on multi-scale phenomena in materials at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Natural Sciences in Leipzig . De Simone has been Professor of Structural Mechanics at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste since 2002 and there director and founder (2010) of the mathLab. With the cognitive neuroscientist Matthew Diamond he founded the SAMBA laboratory at SISSA (Sensing and Moving Bio-inspired Artifacts) in 2012. He is also at the Scuola Superiore S. Anna in Pisa , where he does research at the Biorobotics Institute.
De Simone deals with mathematical modeling (calculus of variations and partial differential equations on several scales), applications in systems biology and materials science (biological tissues, new materials) and numerical analysis. He conducts interdisciplinary research. Among other things, he dealt with magnetic microstructures and elastomers in liquid crystals , thin films, nonlinear elasticity and plasticity theory (damage in structural mechanics, microscopic examination of fracture mechanics and plastic flow), soft matter and biological materials, biologically inspired artificial locomotion (robotics) and locomotion mechanisms in biology (cells, bacteria), wetting properties of very hydrophobic materials (hysteresis of the contact angle), interaction of mechanics (elastic properties) and electrical and magnetic properties (such as martensitic phase transitions, shape memory alloys ) and pattern formation driven by phase transitions and rough energy landscapes.
In 2004 he gave a plenary lecture at the GAMM conference in Dresden. In 2006 he received a scholarship from the Institute for Higher Mathematics F. Severi in Rome for nanomechanics research and the Keith Medal with Felix Otto , Stefan Müller and Robert V. Kohn . In 2010 he received the Prix La Recherche. In 2013 he was a visiting fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute and he is a tenured member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge. In 2017/18 he was a visiting fellow at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge. In 2013 he became a corresponding member of the Accademia Pontaniana in Naples. In 2013 he received an ERC Advanced Grant for research on micro-mobility. In 2015 he became a EuroMech Fellow. In 2019 he received a Humboldt Research Award , with which he will conduct research with Stefan Müller at the Hausdorff Center in Bonn. He already worked with Müller and Sergio Conti in Leipzig.
Fonts (selection)
- Energy minimizers for large ferromagnetic bodies, Archives for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Volume 125, 1993, pp. 99-143
- with RV Kohn, S. Müller, F. Otto: Magnetic microstructures — a paradigm of multiscale problems, ICIAM 99 (International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics), pp. 175-190
- with G. Dolzmann: Material instabilities in nematic elastomers, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, Volume 136, 2000, pp 175-191
- with RD James: A constrained theory of magnetoelasticity, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Volume 50, 2002, 283-320
- with RV Kohn, S. Müller. F. Otto: A reduced theory for thin-film micromagnetics, Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, Volume 157, 2002
- with S. Conti, G. Dolzmann: Soft elastic response of stretched sheets of nematic elastomers: a numerical study, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Volume 50, 2002, pp. 1431-1451
- with Sergio Conti, Georg Dolzmann, Felix Otto: Multiscale modeling of materials - the role of analysis. In: Kirkilionis, Krömker, Rannacher, Tomi (editor): Trends in Nonlinear Analysis. Springer 2003, pp. 375-408.
- with G. DalMaso, MG Mora: Quasistatic evolution problems for linearly elastic-perfectly plastic materials, Archives for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Volume 180, 2006, pp. 237-291
- Editor with G. Dal Maso, F. Tomarelli: Variational Problems in Materials Science, Birkhäuser 2006
- with G. DalMaso, MG Mora, M. Morini: A vanishing viscosity approach to quasistatic evolution in plasticity with softening, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Volume 189, 2008, pp. 469-544
- with F. Alouges, A. Lefebvre: Optimal strokes for low Reynolds number swimmers: an example, Journal of Nonlinear Science, Volume 18, 2008, pp. 277-302
- with M. Arroyo: Relaxation dynamics of fluid membranes, Physical Review E, Volume 79, 2009, p. 031915
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ In publication lists with the mostly English-language publications as DeSimone and also in his English-language CV . Google Scholar Profile
- ^ Year of birth according to Luc Tartar , The general theory of homogenization. A personal introduction , Springer 2009, p. 57
- ↑ Biography at ECMTB 2018
- ^ Humboldt Research Award for DeSimone , University of Bonn 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | De Simone, Antonio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | DeSimone, Antonio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Naples |