Ferretti, Elena

Elena Ferretti is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering and Architecture, Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna, Italy. Her research focuses on the development of numerical codes for fracture mechanics in brittle heterogeneous materials, based on the relationship between non-local approaches and discrete formulations. She is the author or coauthor of numerous conference and journal publications and is the recipient of the 2009 ICCES / S. Ramanujan Young Investigator Award in Computation.