Prof. Dominic Vella
Professor of Applied Mathematics
Tutorial Fellow at Lincoln College
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
The most reliable source of information on my publications is my Publons or Google Scholar profiles.
Otherwise, a few papers representing my main research interests are:
K. Guo, M. Suñé, K. M. Li, K. J. Hsia, M. Liu and D. Vella, Localized tension-induced giant folding in unstructured elastic sheets Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 122, e2423439122 (2025).
Q. Wang, A. Giudici, W. Huang, Y. Wang, M. Liu, S. Tawfick and D. Vella, Transient amplification of broken symmetry in elastic snap-through Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 267201 (2024).
F. Box, L. Domino, T. Outerelo Corvo, M. Adda-Bedia, V. Démery, D. Vella and B. Davidovitch, Delamination from an adhesive sphere: Curvature-induced dewetting versus buckling Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 120, e2212290120 (2023).
M. Liu, M. Gomez and D. Vella, Delayed bifurcation in elastic snap-through instabilities J. Mech. Phys. Solids 151, 104386 (2021).
T. G. J. Chandler and D. Vella, Validity of Winkler's mattress model for thin elastomeric layers: Beyond Poisson's ratio, Proc. R. Soc. A 476, 20200551 (2020).
F. Box, O. Kodio, D. O'Kiely, V. Cantelli, A. Goriely and D. Vella, Dynamic buckling of elastic rings in a soap film, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 198003 (2020).
F. Box, D. O'Kiely, O. Kodio, M. Inizan, A. A. Castrejón-Pita and D. Vella, Dynamics of wrinkling in ultrathin elastic sheets, Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 116, 20875-20880 (2019).
D. Vella, Buffering by buckling as a route for elastic deformation, Nat. Rev. Phys. 1, 425-436 (2019).
M. Gomez, D. E. Moulton, and D. Vella, Critical slowing down in purely elastic `snap-through' instabilities, Nat. Phys. 13, 142-145 (2017).
J. D. Paulsen, E. Hohlfeld, H. King, J. Huang, Z. Qiu, T. P. Russell, N. Menon, D. Vella and B. Davidovitch, Curvature-induced stiffness and the spatial variation of wavelength in wrinkled sheets, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 113, 1144-1149 (2016).
D. Vella, J. Huang, N. Menon, T. P. Russell and B. Davidovitch, Indentation of ultrathin elastic films and the emergence of asymptotic isometry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 014301 (2015).
D. Vella, Floating versus Sinking, Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 47, 115-135 (2015).
B. Davidovitch, R. D. Schroll, D. Vella, M. Adda-Bedia and E. Cerda, Prototypical model for tensional wrinkling in thin sheets, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 108, 18227 (2011).
D. Vella, J. Bico, A. Boudaoud, B. Roman and P. M. Reis, The Macroscopic Delamination of Thin Films from Elastic Substrates, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 10901 (2009).
Prelims Tutorials: Geometry, Dynamics, Constructive Maths
Part A Tutorials: Quantum Theory, Fluids & Waves
Lecturing: Part A Fluids & Waves
Elastic instabilities (particularly wrinkling and snap-through of thin elastic sheets)
Surface tension, adhesion and the interaction with elasticity (Elasto-capillarity)
2020 François Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics (APS DFD)
2017 Philip Leverhulme Prize
2016 Recognition of Distinction (University of Oxford)
2015 Whitehead Prize (London Mathematical Society)
2014 ERC Starting Grant (04/15 – 03/20)
2012 Leverhulme Research Fellowship (04/13 – 03/15)