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Dr Marcelo A. Dias is a Reader in Structural Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. His research spans theoretical structural mechanics, soft condensed matter, and materials modelling. He focuses on understanding how the mechanical behaviour of elastic bodies emerges from the interplay between material composition and carefully designed internal geometry. His work has applications across shape formation in nature, biomechanics, materials and structural mechanics, and the controlled design and functionality of thin plates and shells. You can find some wonderful examples of this research on his research site: https://mazdias.wordpress.com/research/