Gabriele Albertini

• Assistant Professor in Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Nottingham

Gabriele was appointed Assistant Professor in Structural Engineering at the University of Nottingham in July 2022. His research focuses on fracture of materials, friction, and earthquakes. He combines numerical and theoretical models to gain better understanding of experimental observation and uncover the underlying physics.

Previously, he was a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University and received his PhD from Cornell University in 2021 with thesis titled "Nucleation and Propagation of Fracture in Heterogeneous Materials". During his doctoral training he was a visiting researcher at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich and at the Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert at Sorbonne Université.

He holds a BSc and a MSc in civil engineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

• –present Assistant Professor in Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Nottingham

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