Fani Derveni

Fani Derveni is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. Her research focuses on integrating innovative metamaterials into traditional civil and earthquake engineering to enhance structural performance, with an emphasis on resilience and sustainability. Derveni and her team investigate the properties of renewable and sustainable (hybrid) materials, aiming to develop viable engineering solutions starting at the micro-structure level and scaling up. Her work addresses the challenges of infrastructure development while prioritizing environmental and structural integrity.

Fani Derveni is an Assistant Professor at Cornell University specializing in structural engineering with a focus on thin-walled structures, architected materials, and sustainability. Her research explores the behavior and stability of cold-formed steel shear walls, emphasizing the impact of structural detailing and material properties. She investigates the postbuckling behavior of periodic plate-lattice materials and the probabilistic buckling of imperfect hemispherical shells. Her work also includes experimental studies on steel sheet connections and nonlinear modeling of cold-formed steel systems under lateral loads. Derveni's research contributes to the development of sustainable and resilient structural systems for mid-rise buildings.