Prof. Chatzi awarded civil engineering prize

Prof. Eleni Chatzi, module leader of the Dynamic Mobile Sensing Platform in the Future Resilient Systems (FRS) programme, will receive the 2020 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize - the highest-​level mid-​career research prize in civil engineering for her "seminal contributions to enable the vision of self-​aware infrastructure".

At ETH Zurich, Prof. Chatzi heads the Chair of Structural Mechanics and Monitoring at the Institute of Structural Engineering. At the FRS in Singapore, she leads a research team to develop a mobile real-​time sensing paradigm and framework, moving from fixed monitoring paradigm towards mobile sensing networks.

Her research interests include Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Intelligent Infrastructure Assessment, Structural Dynamics, and Nonlinear System Identification. She serves as an editor for international journals in the domains of Dynamics and Monitoring. She has been awarded a Fulbright and a TUM-IAS Hans Fischer Fellowship, and is currently leading the ERC Starting Grant WINDMIL on Smart Monitoring, Inspection and Life-Cycle Assessment of Wind Turbines.

The Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Prize, which was founded in 1946, is awarded annually to members of the ASCE in any grade for notable achievements in research related to civil engineering. The Huber Prize winners are researchers across all civil engineering disciplines, particularly younger members of early accomplishment who can be expected to continue fruitful careers in research.