2026 Katia Bertoldi: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	82	2443	2360	707	665	260	29367

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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

1717
Citations
Flexible mechanical metamaterials

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

1688
Citations
Multistable Architected Materials for Trapping Elastic Strain Energy

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

987
Citations
Negative Poisson's Ratio Behavior Induced by an Elastic Instability

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

983
Citations
3D Soft Metamaterials with Negative Poisson's Ratio

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

922
Citations
Topological Phononic Crystals with One-Way Elastic Edge Waves.

Pai Wang;Ling Lu;Katia Bertoldi

918
Citations
Harnessing buckling to design tunable locally resonant acoustic metamaterials.

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

663
Citations
Mathematically defined tissue engineering scaffold architectures prepared by stereolithography

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

568
Citations
Mechanical Programming of Soft Actuators by Varying Fiber Angle

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

536
Citations
Dielectric Elastomer Based “Grippers” for Soft Robotics

Samuel Shian;Katia Bertoldi;David R. Clarke

524
Citations
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

461
Citations
Mechanically triggered transformations of phononic band gaps in periodic elastomeric structures

Katia Bertoldi;M.C. Boyce

414
Citations
Stable propagation of mechanical signals in soft media using stored elastic energy.

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

392
Citations
Mechanics of deformation-triggered pattern transformations and superelastic behavior in periodic elastomeric structures

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

392
Citations
Pattern transformation triggered by deformation.

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

380
Citations
Rational design of reconfigurable prismatic architected materials

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

365
Citations
Buckling of Elastomeric Beams Enables Actuation of Soft Machines

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

346
Citations
A bioinspired soft actuated material.

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

320
Citations
Buckling-induced encapsulation of structured elastic shells under pressure

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

302
Citations
Octopus Arm-Inspired Tapered Soft Actuators with Suckers for Improved Grasping

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

302
Citations
Compaction Through Buckling in 2D Periodic, Soft and Porous Structures: Effect of Pore Shape

Johannes Tesse Bastiaan Overvelde;Sicong Shan;Katia Bertoldi

275
Citations