Metamaterials; Structural Health Monitoring; smart manufacturing; Finite Element Analysis; Solution of Coupled Problems; Singular Integral Equations for solving Fracture and Contact Mechanics Mixed-Boundary Value Problems; Multifunctional Materials; Functionally Graded Materials; Nonlinear Vibration.

Dr. Sami El-Borgi is a professor of mechanical engineering at the College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Before this appointment, he was a professor at Texas A&M University at Qatar’s Mechanical Engineering program from 2012 until 2024, and at the University of Carthage, Tunisia from 1994 until 2012. He received his Ph.D. degree from Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) in the field of structural engineering and applied mechanics in 1992. His master’s degree was in the same field from Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) in 1987. His bachelor’s degree was obtained in civil engineering from Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio) in 1985. His research field spans structural health monitoring, continuum mechanics, fracture and contact mechanics, nonlinear vibration, and smart manufacturing. He has published to date more than 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. Prof. 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 addition, he established in 2003 in collaboration with Virginia Tech a Master’s program in Computational Mechanics and a Ph.D. program in Applied Mechanics at Tunisia Polytechnic School, University of Carthage, Tunisia. He also provides his services as a reviewer for more than 60 international journals and is on 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.