Prof. Dr. Bozidar Stojadinovic

Božidar Stojadinović is the Chair of Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich. Before coming to ETH in July 2011, he was a Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and a Geological Faculty Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. His degrees are in Civil Engineering: PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1995, MS from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1990 and BS (Dipl.Ing.) from the University of Belgrade, Serbia in 1988. 

 His main research is in the field of community disaster resilience. In this area, he specializes in performance-based probabilistic resilience evaluation and design of civil infrastructure systems, buildings and bridges. In his second research area, Professor Stojadinović is in earthquake and dynamics engineering of structures. In this area, he is using performance-based design principles to develop new response modification techniques, such as rocking, sliding and isolation for vibration and seismic protection of civil infrastructure assets, and to develop new methods for seismic design of structures. His third research area is focused on new experimental testing methods, such as the hybrid simulation method to evaluate the response of civil structures to dynamic excitation using hybrid models that combine physical and numerical substructures. To date, he published his work in more than 350 scholarly publications. 

At ETH, Professor Stojadinović teaches courses on seismic design, structural dynamics and theory of structures. At UC Berkeley and the University of Michigan, he taught courses on design of steel structures, experimental methods, finite element methods, earthquake engineering, statics and mechanics. To date, he graduated 49 doctoral students.