Glaucio H Paulino

About

Glaucio H Paulino is the Margareta Engman Augustine Professor of Engineering at Princeton University, holding appointments in Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Princeton Materials Institute (PMI), Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. His research focuses on applied mechanics, including the development of methodologies to characterize the deformation and fracture behavior of existing and emerging materials such as architected materials. He works on topology optimization for large-scale multiscale and multiphysics problems, computational mechanics, variational methods like mimetic-based virtual elements, and deployable and adaptable structures, including origami engineering. His methods for topology optimization have been employed by industry, academia, and national laboratories. Professor Paulino is also a prominent figure in the field of structural and multidisciplinary optimization, serving as co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, and holding editorial roles in several other scientific journals. He has received numerous honors, including election to the US National Academy of Engineering, Academia Europaea, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, as well as prestigious medals such as the Theodore von Karman Medal, the Raymond D. Mindlin Medal, and the Daniel C. Drucker Medal. His…

Research topics

• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Science
• Engineering
• Mechanical engineering
• Nanotechnology
• Materials science
• Composite material
• Optoelectronics
• Structural engineering
• Electrical engineering

Selected publications

• Soft robotic origami crawler

  Science Advances · 2022 · 408 citations

  Biomimetic soft robotic crawlers have attracted extensive attention in various engineering fields, owing to their adaptivity to different terrains. Earthworm-like crawlers realize locomotion through in-plane contraction, while inchworm-like crawlers exhibit out-of-plane bending-based motions. Although in-plane contraction crawlers demonstrate effective motion in confined spaces, miniaturization is challenging because of limited actuation methods and complex structures. Here, we report a magnetic…

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• Modular chiral origami metamaterials

  Nature · 2025-04-23 · 112 citations

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• Origami engineering

  Nature Reviews Methods Primers · 2024-06-26 · 110 citations

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• Modular multi-degree-of-freedom soft origami robots with reprogrammable electrothermal actuation

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2024-05-06 · 57 citations

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  Soft robots often draw inspiration from nature to navigate different environments. Although the inching motion and crawling motion of caterpillars have been widely studied in the design of soft robots, the steering motion with local bending control remains challenging. To address this challenge, we explore modular origami units which constitute building blocks for mimicking the segmented caterpillar body. Based on this concept, we report a modular soft Kresling origami crawling robot enabled by…

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• Consistent machine learning for topology optimization with microstructure-dependent neural network material models

  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 2024-12-25 · 19 citations

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Recent grants

• GOALI: Building Engineering Through Topology Optimization

  NSF · $188k · 2015–2017

• GOALI: Building Engineering Through Topology Optimization

  NSF · $300k · 2013–2016

• Collaborative Research: Mechanics of Optimal Biomimetic Torene Plates and Shells with Ultra-high Genus

  NSF · $307k · 2024–2026

Frequent coauthors

• Eshan Dave

  University of New Hampshire

  217 shared

• Robert H. Dodds

  Longmont United Hospital

  195 shared

• Marek‐Jerzy Pindera

  192 shared

• Fernando A. Rochinha

  189 shared

• Linfeng Chen

  Sichuan Agricultural University

  105 shared

• William G. Buttlar

  67 shared

• Linfeng Chen

  38 shared

• Emílio Carlos Nelli Silva

  Universidade de São Paulo

  34 shared

Education

• DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, Civil and Enviromental Engineering

  Cornell University

  1995

• MASTER OF SIENCE, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

  Cornell University

  1993

• MASTER OF SIENCE, Civil Engineering, with Honors

  Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

  1988

• BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, Civil Engineering

  University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil

  1985

Awards & honors

• Academician, US National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
• Academician, Academia Europaea, The Academy of Europe
• Academician, European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA)
• Theodore von Karman Medal, ASCE
• Ted Belytschko Medal, Applied Mechanics Division, ASME

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