I am currently an assistant professor in the section of Applied Mechanics at the faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences of Delft University of Technology.
Through my research I aim at preserving and reusing existing (infra)structures by understanding and modelling fracture processes in quasi-brittle materials and structures. Lately I mostly focus on masonry structures. Fascinated by the effect that a tiny defect can have on the entire response of a structure, I carried out research in different fields including mechanics of materials, computational mechanics, and structural assessment with the scope of being able to describe the link between phenomena occurring at the level of material’s constituents (sub-mm/mm scale) and performance of structures (m scale).