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Kristina Shea

Kristina Shea

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
44
Citations
7454
World Ranking
5820
National Ranking
91

Kristina Shea publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kristina Shea sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 256 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Kristina Shea D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kristina Shea sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Overview

Kristina Shea is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the field of engineering, with a particular focus on mechanical engineering and related subfields. Their research encompasses a range of topics with emphasis on advanced manufacturing techniques, materials science, and structural optimization.

The primary fields of study include:

  • Engineering

Key subfields of study associated with their work include:

  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Building and Construction
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Civil and Structural Engineering

The main topics covered in their publications are:

  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials
  • Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
  • Manufacturing Process and Optimization
  • Structural Analysis and Optimization
  • Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence
  • Topology Optimization in Engineering

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Thomas S. Lumpe
  • Tino Stanković
  • Cosima du Pasquier
  • Zhiyang Yu
  • Yu Zhang

Regular publication venues for their work are:

  • Journal of Mechanical Design
  • Smart Materials and Structures
  • Materials & Design
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Recent papers authored by Kristina Shea include:

  • Printed silicone pneumatic actuators for soft robotics (2021, Additive Manufacturing)
  • Perspectives on multi-material additive manufacturing (2021, Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources)
  • Computational design of 3D-printed active lattice structures for reversible shape morphing (2021, Journal of materials research/Pratt's guide to venture capital sources)
  • A 4D printed active compliant hinge for potential space applications using shape memory alloys and polymers (2021, Smart Materials and Structures)
  • Design Heuristics for Additive Manufacturing (2020, Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich))

The body of work by Kristina Shea spans interdisciplinary research that integrates additive manufacturing methods with structural and material innovation, supporting advancements in soft robotics, shape morphing, and compliant mechanisms for emerging applications.

Best Publications

  • Towards integrated performance-driven generative design tools

    Kristina Shea;Robert Aish;Marina Gourtovaia

  • Harnessing bistability for directional propulsion of soft, untethered robots.

    Tian Chen;Osama R. Bilal;Kristina Shea;Chiara Daraio

  • Rotational 3D printing of damage-tolerant composites with programmable mechanics.

    Jordan R. Raney;Jordan R. Raney;Brett G. Compton;Brett G. Compton;Jochen Mueller;Thomas J. Ober

  • Computer-Based Design Synthesis Research: An Overview

    Amaresh Chakrabarti;Kristina Shea;Robert B. Stone;Jonathan Cagan

  • Architected Lattices with High Stiffness and Toughness via Multicore–Shell 3D Printing

    Jochen Mueller;Jordan R. Raney;Kristina Shea;Jennifer A. Lewis

  • Mechanical properties of parts fabricated with inkjet 3D printing through efficient experimental design

    Jochen Mueller;Kristina Shea;Chiara Daraio

  • Computationally designed lattices with tuned properties for tissue engineering using 3D printing.

    Paul F. Egan;Veronica C. Gonella;Max Engensperger;Stephen J. Ferguson

  • Active Tensegrity Structure

    Etienne Fest;Kristina Shea;Ian F. C. Smith

  • Artificial Cognition in Production Systems

    A Bannat;T Bautze;M Beetz;J Blume

  • Innovative dome design: Applying geodesic patterns with shape annealing

    Kristina Shea;Jonathan Cagan

  • Autonomous Deployment of a Solar Panel Using Elastic Origami and Distributed Shape-Memory-Polymer Actuators

    Tian Chen;Osama R. Bilal;Robert Lang;Chiara Daraio

  • A Shape Annealing Approach to Optimal Truss Design With Dynamic Grouping of Members

    Kristina Shea;Jonathan Cagan;Steven J. Fenves

  • Autonomous Deployment of a Solar Panel Using an Elastic Origami and Distributed Shape Memory Polymer Actuators.

    Tian Chen;Osama R. Bilal;Robert Lang;Chiara Daraio

  • Adjustable Tensegrity Structures

    Etienne Fest;Kristina Shea;Bernd Domer;Ian F. C. Smith

  • Integrated Design and Simulation of Tunable, Multi-State Structures Fabricated Monolithically with Multi-Material 3D Printing.

    Tian Chen;Jochen Mueller;Kristina Shea

  • Energy Absorption Properties of Periodic and Stochastic 3D Lattice Materials

    Jochen Mueller;Kathryn H. Matlack;Kristina Shea;Chiara Daraio

  • Improving Full-Scale Transmission Tower Design through Topology and Shape Optimization

    Kristina Shea;Kristina Shea;Ian F. C. Smith;Ian F. C. Smith

  • The design of novel roof trusses with shape annealing: assessing the ability of a computational method in aiding structural designers with varying design intent

    Kristina Shea;Jonathan Cagan

  • The cognitive factory

    Kristina Shea

  • A Generalized Optimality Criteria Method for Optimization of Additively Manufactured Multimaterial Lattice Structures

    Tino Stanković;Jochen Mueller;Paul Egan;Kristina Shea

  • Developing intelligent tensegrity structures with stochastic search

    Kristina Shea;Etienne Fest;Ian F.C. Smith

  • Languages and semantics of grammatical discrete structures

    Kristina Shea;Jonathan Cagan

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian F. C. Smith
Ian F. C. Smith École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Jonathan Cagan
Jonathan Cagan Carnegie Mellon University
Chiara Daraio
Chiara Daraio California Institute of Technology
Jennifer A. Lewis
Jennifer A. Lewis Harvard University
Ashwin A. Seshia
Ashwin A. Seshia University of Cambridge
Birgit Vogel-Heuser
Birgit Vogel-Heuser Technical University of Munich
Jan Marco Leimeister
Jan Marco Leimeister University of Kassel
Helmut Krcmar
Helmut Krcmar Technical University of Munich
Michael Beetz
Michael Beetz University of Bremen

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