Biography
Professor Antonio Elia Forte has a cross-disciplinary background in Computational Mechanics (PhD, 2011-2015 Imperial College), Neuroscience & Signal processing (Postdoc, 2015-2018, Imperial College) and Applied Mechanics (Fellowship, 2018-2021, Harvard University).
He is lead of the RADlab and Associate in Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering at Harvard University. He is recipient of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, the Global Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship, two EPSRC Impact Accelerator Award, among other prizes and recognitions. He is Organiser and Chair of the “Functionality Through Nonlinearity” sessions at the APS Global Summit, and the Functionality Through Nonlinearity Conference. He is CSO and co-founder of The Weird Gripper Company.
Antonio moved to Oxford in September 2025 as Associate Professor in the Engineering Science Department. He is a member of the Solid Mechanics Group. He is interested in non-linear mechanics, reconfigurable systems, robotic matter, and mechanical metamaterials.
Research Interests
- Robotic Matter
- Reconfigurable Systems
- Granular Interactions
- Mechanical Metamaterials
- Embodied Intelligence
Recent Publications
Programmable Entanglement of Granular Mechanical Metamaterials
Rezanejad A, Mousa M, Lorenz CD, Howard M & Forte AE (2025), Advanced Functional Materials
BibTeX
@article{programmableent-2025/9,
title={Programmable Entanglement of Granular Mechanical Metamaterials},
author={Rezanejad A, Mousa M, Lorenz CD, Howard M & Forte AE},
journal={Advanced Functional Materials},
number={e16484},
publisher={Wiley},
year = "2025"
}
