Professor of Physics
- Address:
- GCIS E139F
- Phone:
- (773) 834-8829
- Email:
- vitelli@uchicago.edu
- Visit the Group
- http://home.uchicago.edu/~vitelli/
Research
My interest are in condensed matter theory with an emphasis on geometrical and topological properties of soft materials. Recent research encompasses liquid crystals, granular media and glasses, polymers, non-linear hydrodynamics, active matter and mechanical metamaterials akin to electronic topological insulators. Often the rich phenomenology of these many body systems arises from the interplay between strong non-linearities, disorder and physics far from equilibrium that I explore using analytical and numerical tools often in close collaboration with experimentalists and colleagues from other disciplines.
Topics: Topological Mechanics, Metamaterials, Active Matter, Chiral Fluids
News & Highlights
- Vincenzo Vitelli Named CNRS Fellow-Ambassador, April 30, 2025
- Vitelli Group Designs Compound Robot with Odd Elasticity, March 31, 2025
- Vincenzo Vitelli publishes “Soft Matter” with Princeton University Press, April 30, 2024
- Vitelli group introduces method of controlling turbulence in fluids, March 30, 2024
- Vitelli and Gardel groups create new model to predict cell traction, January 30, 2024
- Groundbreaking research from the Vitelli and Littlewood groups featured in WIRED, November 21, 2021
- Vincenzo Vitelli to join Faculty, June 27, 2017