Taisei Professor of Civil Engineering & PEER Director, CEE Department
Phone: 5103759271
723 Davis HallBerkeley, California 94720-1710
United States
In 1997, Mosalam joined the Department of CEE, UC-Berkeley where he is currently the Taisei Professor of Civil Engineering and the Director of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center.
At UC-Berkeley, Mosalam teaches courses in structural analysis, design and behavior of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures, finite element methods, Experimental methods, and structural dynamics.
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Research
Mosalam conducts research on the performance and health monitoring of structures. He is active in areas of assessment and rehabilitation of essential facilities, e.g. bridges and electrical substations, and in research related to building energy efficiency and sustainability. His research covers large-scale computations and experiments including hybrid simulation. He is the recipient of 2006 ASCE Huber civil engineering research prize, 2013 UC-Berkeley chancellor award for public services, and 2015 EERI outstanding paper award in Earthquake Spectra. He was a visiting professor at Kyoto University (Japan), METU (Turkey), and NTU (Singapore). He is a High-end Expert in Tongji University and a co-PI for two major projects: “Singapore-Berkeley Building Efficiency & Sustainability in the Tropics” and “Internet of Things & Societal Cyber Physical System Lab,” Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute.
Education
Mosalam obtained his BS and MS from Cairo University and his PhD from Cornell University in Structural Engineering.
Awards
- 2015 EERI outstanding paper award in Earthquake Spectra.
- CEE Distinguished Lecture, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, Nov. 5, 2015.
- Taisei Professor of Civil Engineering (July 2015 – Present).
- Nominated for the 2013 outstanding paper award of the ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities by the readers and publications committee for the paper “Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete Stairways During the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake” [Editor’s Note, Volume 29, Issue 1 (February 2015)].
- 2013 UC-Berkeley Chancellor award for Public Services, See this news.
- Erasmus Mundus International Fellowship, European Commission, 2012, Master Course: Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions (SAHC), University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal.
- Robert G. Drysdale Best Paper Award on Masonry Research or Education, Eleventh Canadian Masonry Symposium, Toronto, 2009, Paper: Modelling of Unreinforced Masonry Infill Walls Considering In-Plane and Out-of-Plane Interaction.
- Walter L. Huber, Civil Engineering Research Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006, Citation: For Advanced Computational Research Integrated with Large Experiments to Solve Practical Structural Engineering Problems.
- Hellman Fellow Fund for Research, 2001, Project: Preservation of Strength of Monumental Structures and Strengthening of Low-Cost Housing Using Fiber Reinforced Polymers.
- Best Student Paper in Earthquake Engineering, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), 1996, Paper: Modeling of the Nonlinear Seismic Behavior of Gravity Load Designed Frames.
- Finalists of Robert J. Melosh Medal Competition for Best Student Paper in Finite Element Analysis, 1996, Paper: Evolutionary Characteristic Length Method for Smeared Cracking Finite Element Models.
Experience
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Publications
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