Dr. Hezi Grisaro is an Assistant Professor at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Structural Engineering and Construction Management Division, and the Head of the Extreme Loads on Structures Lab (ELSL)
Hezi got his BSc (summa cum laude, 1st rank in class, 2008), MSc (summa cum laude, 2014) and PhD (2018) in structural engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He was a Lyon Sachs Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada (2018-2020).
Hezi has academic and practical experience in designing and analyzing structures under extreme loads such as blast and impact. His research focuses on modeling the behavior of structures under extreme loads, and analysis of reinforced concrete structures, as well as experimental testing.
Visit our website: https://elsl.technion.ac.il
אנליזה דינמית ומיגון של מבנים הנתונים לעומסי הדף
תכן מבנים לעומסי אימפקט
אפקטים של חומרי נפץ על מבנים
אנליזה ומכניקה של מבני בטון מזוין
2018 Ph.D, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – I.I.T., Israel Thesis title: "Response of a structural element to combined loading of explosion and fragmentation impact"
2014 M.Sc, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – I.I.T., Israel (Summa Cum Laude) Thesis title: "Effect of a rear face layer on scabbing in walls of RC protective structures"
2008 B.Sc, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – I.I.T., Israel (Summa Cum Laude, ,1st rank in class)
2020-Present Assistant Professor, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – I.I.T., Israel
2018-2020 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada
2023 A. Arnson Award for Excellence in Teaching (Lecturer), Technion (Winter 2023)
2019 The Tuvia Netzer Prize for the Best PhD Dissertation in the Field of Structural Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion
2019 Special Mention in the Research Category of the 2019 fib Achievement Award for Young Engineers
2018 Lyon Sachs Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Toronto, Canada
2018 Award for Excellence in Teaching (Assistant), Technion (Spring 2017)
2017 The Ministry of Science, Technology and Space Travel Grant for Phd students
2017 Award for Excellence in Teaching (Assistant), Technion (Spring 2016)
2016 The Best Lecture Award in the 11th fib International PhD Symposium in Civil engineering, Tokyo, Japan
2016 The “Eng. Yehezkel Koplevitch, Eng. Arie Tzimerman” prize for excellence in research in the Structural Engineering and Construction Management division in the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion
2016 The Adams Fellowship Program of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities for excellent PhD students in Israel
2015 Fain Daniel prize for PhD students
2014 The Tuvia Netzer Prize for the best MSc dissertation in the field of Structural Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion
2008 1st rank in class, undergraduate studies – Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion
2007 The Yitzhak Alpan prize for excellence in the 'Geomechanics' course, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion
My publications are also listed in my Google Scholar and ResearchGate
