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