01 / Research
Engineers are trained to fear instability. We treat it as a design tool: we study how structures buckle, snap, and morph, and put those instabilities to work.
- mechanical metamaterialsbehaviour from geometry, not chemistry: multistability, programmable stiffness, shape change by design.
- inflatable structuresflat membranes that morph into cylinders, cones, and hinges. Kinking and snap-through as pneumatic actuation.
- soft roboticsmachines that compute with their bodies, from grippers to deployable devices.
- granular matterentanglement and jamming as a route to grasping and reconfigurable structure.
02 / People
- Antonio Elia Forte (Anto)principal investigator
- Junke Yaopostdoc
- Hugo Oliveiramarie curie fellow
- TBAdff fellow
- Mostafa Mousa (Mo)postdoc
- Ashkan Rezanejad (Ash)postdoc
- Barakat Barakatdphil student
- Yuxuan Wangdphil student
- Michael Adlersteindphil student
- Paulina Tanousisdphil student
- Dharma Hara Nandan Tumaradadphil student
Always happy to hear from prospective DPhil students and postdocs — write to us.
03 / Recent papers
- Vacuum–Laser Fabrication of Programmable Soft Actuators
- Hybrid Jamming–Magnetic Reconfigurable Soft Structures for Shape Morphing Robotics
- Multifunctional Fluidic Units for Emergent, Responsive Robotic Behaviors
- Programmable Entanglement of Granular Mechanical Metamaterials
- Programmable Surface Dimpling of Textile Metamaterials for Aerodynamic Control
Full list on google scholar.
06 / Contact
Department of Engineering ScienceUniversity of Oxford, Parks Road
Oxford OX1 3PJ, UK
antonio [dot] forte [at] eng.ox.ac.ukgoogle scholarnon-linearity.com