Antonio Gil

Head Of The School Of Aerospace, Civil, Electrical, General And Mechanical Engineering Swansea University

Antonio J. Gil is a Professor at the Zienkiewicz Institute for Modelling, Data and AI at Swansea University and Head of the School of Aerospace, Civil, Electrical, General and Mechanical Engineering. He has been active in research in the area of computational mechanics for over 20 years, with contributions in a variety of topics, including, large strain solid mechanics, in-silico modelling of soft robotics, electro-magneto-acousto-mechanics, meshless methods and finite element/volume methods. His work as a young investigator has been recognised with awards such as the UK Leverhulme Prize and the European ECCOMAS Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz award. Recently, Recently, his research work has focused in the in-silico simulation of soft robotics components, specifically, looking at the electro-mechanical formulation of highly deformable actuators, their Finite Element computational implementation, their High Performance computing and optimum solver resolution. In addition, he has explored the stability of soft actuators for long duration programmable functioning and the topology optimisation of deformable elastomers. His work is funded by UK EPSRC, Philip Leverhulme Trust, EU Horizon, Ser Cymru Research Network, DSTL and SIEMENS Healthnieers