Professor
Virginia Tech
Raffaella De Vita is a professor and associate department head in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics at Virginia Tech. She received her Laurea in Mathematics from University of Naples II, Italy, in 2000 and her M.S. and Ph.D. from University of Pittsburgh in 2003 and 2005, respectively. She is the recipient of the American Society of Biomechanics President’s award, the NSF CAREER award, the PECASE Award, and several awards for research, teaching, and outreach excellence at Virginia Tech. She is a fellow of the ASME and AIMBE. She has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Elasticity since 2020 and as an associate editor for the Journal of Biomedical Engineering from 2017 to 2022. Her research focuses on determining the relationship between the mechanical behavior and the complex structure of biological systems using theoretical, computational, and experimental methods.
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
8:00 AM – 11:30 AM US PST
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose