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Zohar Yosibash is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (since 1995) and Head of the Computational Mechanics Laboratory. He holds a Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship at the Technical University of Munich (TUM-IAS) since 2009. His research focuses on computational biomechanics, particularly bone and artery mechanics, using high-order finite element methods (p-FEM). He has expertise in singularities in solid mechanics and nonlinear FE analysis.
Education: B.Sc. Aeronautical Engineering (Technion, 1987), M.Sc. Applied Mathematics (Tel Aviv University, 1991), D.Sc. Mechanical Engineering (Washington University, 1994). Visiting roles included Washington University (1994–1995) and Brown University (2002–2007). He serves on the advisory board of the Bavarian Graduate School of Computational Engineering since 2006.
Research interests include computational biomechanics, finite element methods (p-FEM), bone fracture mechanics, blood vessel mechanics, and failure initiation analysis. His work bridges numerical methods with clinical applications, such as predicting femur strength in metastatic tumors and validating simulations against experimental data.
Key awards include the Toronto Prize for Best Researcher (2009, Ben-Gurion University) and IBM Distinguished Professorship (2002–2003, Brown University). His publications emphasize validated FE models of bones and arteries, stochastic simulations under uncertainty, and mesh-free finite cell methods.
