ICES Alumnus Tarek Zohdi promoted to endowed chair

ICES Alumnus Tarek Zohdi has been promoted to the endowed position of the Will C. Hall Endowed Chair at the University of California, Berkeley. Zohdi serves as a professor of mechanical engineering, and chair of the university's Computational and Data Science and Engineering Program. He is also a chancellor's professor, and holds a staff scientist position at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs and an adjunct scientist position at the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute.

Zhodi is a highly cited expert on computational methods for particulate flows, electro-magnetics, and simulation methods for manufacturing. His main research interests are in micromechanical material design, the mechanics of high-strength fabric and particulate with emphasis on computational approaches for advanced manufacturing and nonconvex multiscale-multiphysics inverse problems, in particular addressing the important issue of how large numbers of micro-constituents interact to produce macroscale aggregate behavior. He has published over 130 archival refereed journal papers and five books

Zohdi earned his Ph.D. in 1997 under the supervision of ICES Director J. Tinsley Oden.