Eleni Chatzi elected member of the National Research Council
The Foundation Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has appointed Eleni Chatzi, Associate Professor of Structural Mechanics and Monitoring at the Institute of Structural Engineering at D-BAUG, to the National Research Council. She took office on October 1, 2021.
Prof. Eleni Chatzi will be part of the "Programs" division and act as an expert for engineering sciences. As council member, her primary task will be the evaluation of project proposals submitted in specific subject areas.
Born in 1981, Chatzi studied civil engineering in Athens and New York. She received her PhD from Columbia University in New York in 2010. That same year, she moved to ETH Zurich, to assume the Chair of Structural Mechanics as an assistant professor. In 2017, she was promoted to associate professor of Structural Mechanics and Monitoring. In her research, Chatzi specializes in "Structural Health Monitoring". She diagnoses the health of infrastructures, machines and engineering systems by combining information from sensors with algorithms that exploit physics, probabilistic and machine learning tools.
To the Downloadpress release of the Swiss National Science Foundation
The research group of Structural Mechanics and Monitoring led by Eleni Chatzi