Paolo Maria Mariano

Biography

March 2017: (2) Full-Professorship qualification in Mathematical Physics. March 2017: (1) Full-Professorship qualification in Mechanics of Solids. 2005-present: Associate Professor of Mechanics of Solids in the University of Florence (Firenze, Italy). 2008-present: Coordinator (together with Prof. A. Mielke) of the Research Group in Theoretical Mechanics in the Centro di Ricerca Matematica E. De Giorgi of the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. 2011-2013: Adjunct Professor of Theoretical Mechanics in the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. 2009-2010: In charge of the course “Mechanics of complex materials” in the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. 2009-2010: Adjunct Professor of Theoretical Mechanics in the Gonzaga University, Campus Florence. Visiting Professorship: the University of Tartu, Department of Mathematics (May 2012), Polytechnic University of Madrid, Department of Materials Science (June 2012, July 2011, September, 2010; May-June, 2009; September 2008), University of Zürich, Department of Mathematics (October-December, 2009), Center of Excellence in Advanced Materials and Structures, Polish Academy of Sciences (February, April-May, 2004). 1997-2001: Adjunct Professor of Mechanics of Solids in the University of Rome La Sapienza. 1996, 2003, 2004: Research Associate in the University of Pisa, Department of Mathematics.  

Research Interest

Mechanics and thermodynamics of the sequences : the foundations of the complex body mechanics, the formulation of special classes of complex bodies (quasicrystals, ferroelectric, polymeric fluids), complex fluid dynamics, discontinuous waves, evolution of point defects, volume and surface, mechanical damage, plasticity. ·Computational methods : Extensive finite elements for complex body mechanics, variation supplements. Statistical Mechanics : Substructural Stochasticity.