Fani Derveni is an Assistant Professor in Cornell Civil and Environmental Engineering, where she joined in August 2025. Her research group, the Scalable MetaStructures Laboratory, focuses on the mechanics of multiSCALE mechanical metamaterials toward sustainable and resilient infrastructure. Prior to this, she was a Postdoctoral Associate in Mechanical Engineering at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Dr. Derveni holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Structural Engineering and Mechanics from University of Massachusetts Amherst (2019 and 2021, respectively). She obtained her diploma in Civil Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (2017), and spent six months as an exchange student at Cracow University of Technology, Poland.

Beyond the world of engineering mechanics, she enjoys running marathons, skiing, hiking, salsa/bachata, and traveling.

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