2026 Antonio DeSimone: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	48	1312	1209	27	26	199	7812

Overview

Antonio DeSimone is affiliated with the International School for Advanced Studies in Italy. Their research spans multiple domains within engineering, with a strong focus on mechanics and advanced materials.

The main fields of study in DeSimone's work include:

Engineering

Subfields of study where they have contributed substantially are:

Mechanical Engineering
Biomedical Engineering
Condensed Matter Physics
Cell Biology
Civil and Structural Engineering

DeSimone's research topics are centered around:

Advanced Materials and Mechanics
Micro and Nano Robotics
Structural Analysis and Optimization
Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies
Liquid Crystal Research Advancements
Interactive and Immersive Displays
Cellular Mechanics and Interactions

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by DeSimone include:

The 2020 motile active matter roadmap, 2020, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
Blueprinting Photothermal Shape-Morphing of Liquid Crystal Elastomers, 2020, Advanced Materials
Rigorous derivation of active plate models for thin sheets of nematic elastomers, 2020, CINECA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies)
Photochemically Induced Propulsion of a 4D Printed Liquid Crystal Elastomer Biomimetic Swimmer, 2024, Advanced Science
Euglena International Network (EIN): Driving euglenoid biotechnology for the benefit of a challenged world, 2022, Biology Open

Frequent coauthors collaborating with DeSimone include:

Giovanni Noselli (12 publications)
Alessandro Lucantonio (5 publications)
Daniele Agostinelli (4 publications)
Luciano Teresi (4 publications)
Marino Arroyo (3 publications)

Common venues where DeSimone's research is published are:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
arXiv (Cornell University)
Advanced Materials
Advanced Science
Mechanics Research Communications

DeSimone is also the author of academic books published by Springer Nature, including:

The Mathematics of Mechanobiology, 2020

Best Publications

The 2020 motile active matter roadmap

Gerhard Gompper;Roland G Winkler;Thomas Speck;Alexandre Solon

482
Citations
A constrained theory of magnetoelasticity

Antonio DeSimone;Richard D. James

279
Citations
Relaxation dynamics of fluid membranes.

Marino Arroyo;Antonio DeSimone

249
Citations
Quasistatic Evolution Problems for Linearly Elastic–Perfectly Plastic Materials

Gianni Dal Maso;Antonio DeSimone;Maria Giovanna Mora

245
Citations
Soft elastic response of stretched sheets of nematic elastomers: a numerical study

Sergio Conti;Antonio DeSimone;Antonio DeSimone;Georg Dolzmann

228
Citations
Macroscopic response of nematic elastomers via relaxation of a class of SO(3)-invariant energies

Antonio DeSimone;Georg Dolzmann

204
Citations
Optimal Strokes for Low Reynolds Number Swimmers: An Example

François Alouges;Antonio DeSimone;Aline Lefebvre

194
Citations
Blueprinting Photothermal Shape-Morphing of Liquid Crystal Elastomers.

Alexa S. Kuenstler;Yuzhen Chen;Phuong Bui;Hyunki Kim

174
Citations
Spontaneous division and motility in active nematic droplets.

Luca Giomi;Antonio DeSimone

161
Citations
Semisoft elasticity and director reorientation in stretched sheets of nematic elastomers.

Sergio Conti;Antonio DeSimone;Georg Dolzmann

159
Citations
Recent analytical developments in micromagnetics

Antonio DeSimone;Robert V. Kohn;Stefan Mueller;Felix Otto

148
Citations
Thermally Driven Giant Bending of Liquid Crystal Elastomer Films with Hybrid Alignment

Yoshiki Sawa;Kenji Urayama;Toshikazu Takigawa;Antonio DeSimone

144
Citations
Reverse Engineering the Euglenoid Movement

Marino Arroyo;Luca Heltai;Daniel Millan;Antonio DeSimone

141
Citations
Elastic energies for nematic elastomers.

A Desimone;Luciano Teresi;Luciano Teresi

132
Citations
Self-propulsion of slender micro-swimmers by curvature control: N-link swimmers

F. Alouges;A. Desimone;L. Giraldi;Marta Zoppello

121
Citations
Material instabilities in nematic elastomers

Antonio DeSimone;Georg Dolzmann

117
Citations
Magnetic microstructures - a paradigm of multiscale problems

Antonio DeSimone;Robert V. Kohn;Stefan Müller;Felix Otto

112
Citations
QUASISTATIC EVOLUTION FOR CAM-CLAY PLASTICITY: A WEAK FORMULATION VIA VISCOPLASTIC REGULARIZATION AND TIME RESCALING

Gianni Dal Maso;Antonio DeSimone;Francesco Solombrino

101
Citations
On the continuum theory of deformable ferromagnetic solids

Antonio DeSimone;Paolo Podio-Guidugli

101
Citations
A Vanishing Viscosity Approach to Quasistatic Evolution in Plasticity with Softening

Gianni Dal Maso;Antonio DeSimone;Maria Giovanna Mora;Massimiliano Morini

100
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Marino Arroyo Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Gianni Dal Maso International School for Advanced Studies

Felix Otto Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Sergio Conti University of Bonn

Robert V. Kohn Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Richard D. James University of Minnesota

Kenji Urayama Kyoto Institute of Technology

Carlijn Carlijn Bouten Eindhoven University of Technology

Julia M. Yeomans University of Oxford

Robert M. McMeeking University of California, Santa Barbara

External Links

Personal website of Antonio DeSimone Google Scholar page

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