Matilde Fiori

Matilde graduated from ETH Zurich in November 2018 with an MSc in Biomechanics. She then worked as research assistant in the Impact Engineering Laboratory at the University of Oxford for about one year before joining the Poromechanics Lab as a DPhil student in October 2019. She completed her DPhil in early 2024 and is now a postdoctoral researcher with Sylvie Lorthois at the IMFT in Toulouse.

Having a research background focused on the application of the principles of nonlinear continuum mechanics to characterize the behaviour of human soft tissue, Matilde's work aims at the theoretical description and experimental observation of soft porous materials, their mechanical properties, and the transport of fluid through their structure. Her DPhil was funded by the ERC DEFTPORE project.