Dr. Torquato Garulli is currently a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow
at the University of Girona, in the department of Mechanical Engineering and
Industrial Construction (EMCI), specifically in the AMADE (Analysis and Advanced
Materials for Structural Design) research group.
During his doctoral thesis, carried out as a co-supervised
program of the Universities of Bordeaux (France) and Pisa (Italy), he developed
and proposed an original strategy to design fully uncoupled multidirectional composite
specimens for the characterisation of interlaminar fracture toughness of
non-unidirectional interfaces, exploiting an unconventional class of stacking
sequences, called quasi-trivial (QT), and newly developed algorithmic and
analytical tools.
Dr. Garulli then worked as Research Associate at Imperial
College, under the supervision of Profs. S.T. Pinho and E. S. Greenhalgh.
During this experience, within the NextCOMP UKRI-funded Programme Grant, he
developed two novel bioinspired microstructural concepts for improving
compressive performance of long fibre composites and studied carbon-boron fibre
hybrids to reveal, for the first time, how their remarkable compressive
strength stems from biomimetic crack deflection mechanisms.
Dr. Garulli won an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship (2021 call, Horizon
Europe), funding his current activity. His project, called IFT-MultiLam, stems
from and brings further the research he developed in his Ph.D.