People Biography

Dr. Sami El-Borgi is a Professor of mechanical engineering at the College of Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. His field of research spans areas of structural health monitoring, continuum mechanics, fracture and contact mechanics, nonlinear vibration, finite element analysis, metamaterials, and smart manufacturing. He has published around 120 papers in high-impact journals in addition to one US patent. Over the last two decades, he has collaborated with well-known and reputable scholars in the fields of nonlinear vibration, fracture mechanics, contact mechanics, and finite element analysis.

Professor El-Borgi has been awarded numerous research grants with funding provided by the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education, the Qatar National Research Fund, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. State Department, and the European Commission. In collaboration with Virginia Tech in 2003, he introduced a Master’s program in Computational Mechanics and a PhD program in Applied Mechanics at Tunisia Polytechnic School, University of Carthage, Tunisia. Prof. El-Borgi also serves as a reviewer for more than 60 international journals and is a member of the editorial board of a few engineering journals. In recognition of his services to the higher education sector, the Republic of Tunisia awarded him the Presidential Order of Merit of Education in 2008.