About us

The Mathematics and Mechanics of Nonlinear Wave Propagation in Solids (MMWS) is aimed at using nonlinear solid mechanics, rigorous mathematics and innovative computational methods to understand wave motion in soft tissues. We focus first of all in the framework of the actual technology of transient elastography with the goal to improve elastograms in precision and spatial resolution but we consider also application to shock waves in brain and other soft tissues. 


PI and Coordinators

Giuseppe Saccomandi, PI

PI and Coordinator of the unit at the University of Perugia
Institutional webpage: https://www.unipg.it/personale/giuseppe.saccomandi
ORCiD: 0000-0001-7987-8892
ResearcherID: F-8690-2010
Scopus ID: 7003829580
Google Scholar, ResearchGate: Giuseppe Saccomandi


Biographical sketch

Giuseppe Saccomandi currently works at the University of Perugia as Full Professor of Mathematical Physics and he is the Director of the National Group of Mathematical PhysicsGNFM (Gruppo Nazionale di Fisica Matematica”) of the National Institute for Advanced Mathematics – INdAM (“Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica”). Giuseppe carries out his research in Nonlinear Elasticity, Rubber-Like Materials and Soft Tissues, Wave Propagation and Applied Mathematics.

Andrea Mentrelli

Coordinator of the unit at the University of Bologna
Institutional webpagehttps://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/andrea.mentrelli
ORCiD: 0000-0002-8106-1096
ResearcherID: F-8690-2010
Scopus ID: 6506366037
Google Scholar, Research Gate: Andrea Mentrelli


Biographical sketch


Andrea Mentrelli is an Associate Professor of mathematical physics at the University of Bologna. Mentrelli carries out his research mainly in the field of extended thermodynamics with particular emphasis on numerical and computational aspects. He has high performance scientific computing (HPC) skills.

Ada Amendola

Coordinator of the unit at the University of Salerno
Institutional webpage: https://docenti.unisa.it/026745/home
ORCiD: 0000-0002-2562-881X
ResearcherID: Y-1280-2019
Scopus ID: 55539189220
Google Scholar, ResearchGate: Ada Amendola


Biographical sketch

Ada Amendola is an Associate Professor at the University of Salerno, Department of Civil Engineering. Her research interests have focused in recent years on the study of wave propagation, with particular regard to solitary waves in complex lattice structures.

Other Participants

Unit 1: University of Perugia

Luigi Vergori

Institutional webpage: https://www.unipg.it/personale/luigi.vergori
ORCiD: 0000-0002-0332-5367
Scopus ID: 23394279800


Biographical sketch

Luigi Vergori is an Associate Professor at the University of Perugia. His reasearch interests lie in the mathematical modelling of continua, wave propagation in solids, exact and approximate solutions in both solids and fluids and the mechanics of liquid cristalline shells.

Francesca Di Patti

Institutional webpage: https://www.unipg.it/personale/francesca.dipatti
ORCiD: 0000-0003-1288-0079
ResearcherID: G-7072-2011
Scopus ID: 9843106000
Google Scholar, ResearchGate:  Francesca Di Patti


Biographical sketch

Francesca Di Patti is assistant professor of mathematical physics at the University of Perugia. Her research interests fall within the field of complex systems and they focus on a wide range of phenomena, from pattern formation on networks, to reaction-diffusion equations applied to  biological systems.


Unit 2: University of Salerno

Vittorio Zampoli

Institutional webpage: http://docenti.unisa.it/vittorio.zampoli
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5395-2089
ResearcherID: J-9192-2015
Scopus ID: 9944026300
Google Scholar, ResearchGate: Vittorio Zampoli


Biographical sketch

Vittorio Zampoli is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Salerno, Department of Information and Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics. His research interests lie in the fields of linear and nonlinear elasticity and thermoelasticity, as well as in wave propagation issues.

Francesco Saverio Tortoriello

Associate Professor (L. 240/10)
ORCiD: 0000-0002-4600-6411
Scopus ID: 6504451791


Unit 3: University of Bologna

Francesca Brini

Institutional webpage: https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/francesca.brini
ORCiD: 0000-0002-0131-0727
Scopus ID: 6603443953
Google Scholar, ResearchGateFrancesca Brini


Biographical sketch

Francesca Brini works at the University of Bologna. Her research interests concern the non-equilibrium thermodynamics (especially rational extended thermodynamics) and the non-linear propagation of waves. The modeling of physical-mathematical problems in bounded domains is the challenge that engages her the most. 


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