Evgueni Filipov

Evgueni Filipov is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. For the 2025 calendar year he is a Visiting Fellow in the HBBE and the Newcastle University School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape. His visit is sponsored through the Simons Foundation Pivot Fellowship which is designed to give experienced researchers an opportunity to pivot into new fields of study. Evgueni is working at the HBBE to enter the field of mycelium biomaterials, where he is interested in exploring the bonding mechanisms between mycelium hyphae, organic substrates, and knitted scaffolds. He plans to create mechanics-based models to simulate, design and optimize the behavior of biohybrid systems, with the long-term goal of growing low-cost regenerative infrastructure with a small CO2 footprint.

Evgueni’s previous and ongoing research at the University of Michigan has focused on exploring the underlying mechanics of origami-inspired deployable and reconfigurable structures. These mechanics are employed to improve stiffness, functionality, and manufacturing of folding structures at multiple scales. For his prior work, Evgueni has received the ASCE EMI Leonardo da Vinci Award (2023), the NSF CAREER Award (2020), the DARPA Young Faculty Award (2018), the Cozzarelli Prize from the National Academy of Sciences (2015), and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. He holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.