Group Members
Prof. Dr. Laura De Lorenzis
Professor of Computational Mechanics
Deputy Head of the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering
Kasia Di Muzio
Administrative Assistant
CLA J 11.2
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich
Dr. Arefeh Abbasi
Postdoctoral Scholar
Research Interests: experimental mechanics, constitutive law identification, fracture mechanics, mechanics of soft active materials and slender structures
Dr. Oliver Boolakee
Postdoctoral Scientist
Research Interests: lattice Boltzmann methods, process-property relations in additive manufacturing, coupled problems
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: data-driven engineering, optimization
Dr. Gerhard Bräunlich
Scientific Computing
Research IT Platforms
OCT G 35
Binzmühlestrasse 130
8092 Zürich
Dr. Pietro Carrara
Senior Scientist
Research Interests: phase-field modeling of fracture and fatigue, data-driven computational mechanics, 3D X-ray imaging and experimental mechanics
Angela Fajardo Lacave
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: phase-field modeling of anisotropic fracture, short fiber reinforced polymers, multiscale modeling
Saeid Ghouli
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: data-driven discovery of constitutive laws, topology optimization
Jonas Heinzmann
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: phase-field modeling of fracture and fatigue, variational methods, acceleration schemes
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: phase-field modeling of fracture, prediction of fracture in concrete
Andrea Lamperti
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: reactive transport modeling, porous media mechanics
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: phase-field modeling of ductile fracture, variational fracture mechanics
Sepehr Mousavi
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: data-driven modeling of constitutive laws, physics-based machine learning, operator learning
Hamza Oudich
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: phase-field modeling of phase transformations coupled with mechanics, fracture in batteries
Veit Schönherr
Lab Technician
CLA J 14.2
Tannenstrasse 3
8092 Zürich
Dr. Manon Thbaut
Postdoctoral Scholar
Research Interests: theoretical mechanics, multiscale modeling, asymptotic analysis, variational formulation
Dr. Francesco Vicentini
Postdoctoral Scientist
Research Interests: phase-field modeling of fracture, bone fracture
Julie Weverbergh
Doctoral Student
Research Interests: lattice Boltzmann methods for solid mechanics, elastodynamics