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D-Index
82
Citations
29367
World Ranking
2441
National Ranking
705

Katia Bertoldi publication distribution in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Materials Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Katia Bertoldi sits on this spectrum.

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50 publications 1,163+

This scientist: 260 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,163 publications or more.

Katia Bertoldi D-index placement in Materials Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Materials Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Katia Bertoldi sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 165+

This scientist: 82 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 165 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For blending photonics, nonlinear mechanics, origami, and robotics through theory and experiment

Overview

Katia Bertoldi is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with a significant focus on Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Civil and Structural Engineering. Additional areas of investigation include Condensed Matter Physics and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including:

  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Structural Analysis and Optimization
  • Soft Robotics and Applications
  • Cellular and Composite Structures
  • Micro and Nano Robotics

Recent publications by Katia Bertoldi include:

  • "Multistable inflatable origami structures at the metre scale," 2021, Nature
  • "Octopus Arm-Inspired Tapered Soft Actuators with Suckers for Improved Grasping," 2020, Soft Robotics
  • "Mechanically robust lattices inspired by deep-sea glass sponges," 2020, Nature Materials
  • "Kirigami-Inspired Inflatables with Programmable Shapes," 2020, Advanced Materials
  • "Guided transition waves in multistable mechanical metamaterials," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The frequent coauthors in Katia Bertoldi's body of work are:

  • Antonio Elia Forte
  • David Melancon
  • Bolei Deng
  • Benjamin Gorissen
  • Vincent Tournat

The scientist has multiple publications in several notable venues, including:

  • Advanced Materials
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature

Katia Bertoldi was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2019 with a citation for blending photonics, nonlinear mechanics, origami, and robotics through theory and experiment.

Best Publications

  • Pneumatic Networks for Soft Robotics that Actuate Rapidly

    Bobak Mosadegh;Bobak Mosadegh;Panagiotis Polygerinos;Christoph Keplinger;Sophia W Wennstedt

  • Flexible mechanical metamaterials

    Katia Bertoldi;Vincenzo Vitelli;Vincenzo Vitelli;Johan Christensen;Martin van Hecke

  • Multistable Architected Materials for Trapping Elastic Strain Energy

    Sicong Shan;Sung H. Kang;Sung H. Kang;Jordan R. Raney;Jordan R. Raney;Pai Wang

  • Negative Poisson's Ratio Behavior Induced by an Elastic Instability

    Katia Bertoldi;Pedro M. Reis;Stephen Willshaw;Tom Mullin

  • 3D Soft Metamaterials with Negative Poisson's Ratio

    Sahab Babaee;Jongmin Shim;James C. Weaver;Elizabeth R. Chen

  • Topological Phononic Crystals with One-Way Elastic Edge Waves.

    Pai Wang;Ling Lu;Katia Bertoldi

  • Harnessing buckling to design tunable locally resonant acoustic metamaterials.

    Pai Wang;Filippo Casadei;Sicong Shan;James C. Weaver

  • Mathematically defined tissue engineering scaffold architectures prepared by stereolithography

    Ferry P.W. Melchels;Katia Bertoldi;Ruggero Gabbrielli;Aldrik H. Velders

  • Mechanical Programming of Soft Actuators by Varying Fiber Angle

    Fionnuala Connolly;Panagiotis Polygerinos;Conor J. Walsh;Katia Bertoldi

  • Dielectric Elastomer Based “Grippers” for Soft Robotics

    Samuel Shian;Katia Bertoldi;David R. Clarke

  • A three-dimensional actuated origami-inspired transformable metamaterial with multiple degrees of freedom

    Johannes T.B. Overvelde;Twan A. de Jong;Yanina Shevchenko;Sergio A. Becerra

  • Mechanically triggered transformations of phononic band gaps in periodic elastomeric structures

    Katia Bertoldi;M.C. Boyce

  • Stable propagation of mechanical signals in soft media using stored elastic energy.

    Jordan R. Raney;Neel Nadkarni;Chiara Daraio;Chiara Daraio;Dennis M. Kochmann

  • Mechanics of deformation-triggered pattern transformations and superelastic behavior in periodic elastomeric structures

    Katia Bertoldi;M.C. Boyce;S. Deschanel;S. M. Prange

  • Pattern transformation triggered by deformation.

    T. Mullin;S. Deschanel;K. Bertoldi;M. C. Boyce

  • Rational design of reconfigurable prismatic architected materials

    Johannes Tesse bastiaan Overvelde;James C. Weaver;Chuck Hoberman;Chuck Hoberman;Katia Bertoldi

  • Buckling of Elastomeric Beams Enables Actuation of Soft Machines

    Dian Yang;Bobak Mosadegh;Bobak Mosadegh;Alar Ainla;Ben Charles Germain Lee

  • A bioinspired soft actuated material.

    Ellen T. Roche;Ellen T. Roche;Robert Wohlfarth;Johannes T. B. Overvelde;Nikolay V. Vasilyev

  • Buckling-induced encapsulation of structured elastic shells under pressure

    Jongmin Shim;Claude Perdigou;Elizabeth R. Chen;Katia Bertoldi

  • Octopus Arm-Inspired Tapered Soft Actuators with Suckers for Improved Grasping

    Zhexin Xie;August G Domel;Ning An;Connor Green

  • Compaction Through Buckling in 2D Periodic, Soft and Porous Structures: Effect of Pore Shape

    Johannes Tesse Bastiaan Overvelde;Sicong Shan;Katia Bertoldi

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincent Tournat
Vincent Tournat Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Conor J. Walsh
Conor J. Walsh Harvard University
George M. Whitesides
George M. Whitesides Harvard University
Mary C. Boyce
Mary C. Boyce Columbia University
Pedro Reis
Pedro Reis École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
David R. Clarke
David R. Clarke Harvard University
Bobak Mosadegh
Bobak Mosadegh Cornell University
Jennifer A. Lewis
Jennifer A. Lewis Harvard University
George V. Lauder
George V. Lauder Harvard University

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