Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

Prof. Oded Rabinovitch, holder of the Abel Wolman Chair in the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been appointed Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs after serving since October 2019 as Senior Executive Vice President of the Technion. He earned his B.Sc. in civil engineering with high distinction and his Ph.D. through the Technion’s special track. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Delaware, he joined the Technion faculty in 2002. From 2014 to 2019, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He has received numerous awards for teaching excellence, including the Yanai Prize for Excellence in Academic Education (2012), and has been named an Outstanding Lecturer every year since 2017. His research focuses on layered and composite structures, particularly failure processes in such structures, the dynamics of interlayer failures, random characteristics of these processes, and the interaction among topology, rate, and stability of interlayer mechanisms in applications ranging from structural reinforcement with composite materials to layered systems in orthodontics.