Raffaella De Vita. Photo courtesy Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech announced Monday that biomedical engineering and mechanics professor Raffaella De Vita has been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows.
The institute’s membership includes more than 2,000 fellows who are recognized leaders in the medical and biological fields. De Vita has been with Virginia Tech since 2006 as a visiting professor and since 2007 as a full-time faculty member. She is the associate department head and the director of the Soft Tissue Research: Experiments, Theory and Computation by Hokies (STRETCH) Lab. De Vita conducts research on characterizing the mechanical properties of soft biological systems.
