01 / Research
We design structures whose nonlinearity does the work. Buckling, snapping, jamming and entanglement give ordinary matter the ability to sense, move and decide without electronics. We build machines that think with their bodies, and materials that behave like machines.
- 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