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Masoud Motavalli is a scientist in the field of structural engineering. He received his PhD at ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in 1992. He started his research in the field of advanced composite materials at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology. After spending a one year sabbatical leave at the UC San Diego, USA, working on split Hopkinson bar test facilities at UCSD, he became the Head of the Structural Engineering Laboratory at Empa in Switzerland in 1999 where he is still working. Professor Motavalli has been one of the initiators of applying shape memory alloys for prestressing of concrete structural Masoud Motavalli worldwide. He and his team at Empa developed iron based Shape memory alloys, that could easily be used as prestressing plates and bars for concrete and steel elements. This material has then found its way to the market world wide.

Professor Motavalli is co author of hundreds of peer reviewed papers in well-known international journals.