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Prof. Branko Glišić, received his degrees in Civil Engineering and Theoretical Mathematics at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and Ph.D. at the EPFL, Switzerland. After eight-year long experience at SMARTEC SA, Switzerland, where he was involved in numerous Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) projects, he has been employed as a faculty member at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Princeton University. His research is in the areas of SHM, Smart Structures, and Heritage Structures.

Prof. Glišić's research includes advanced sensing techniques: long-gauge and distributed fiber optic sensors, 2-D sensing sheets based on large area electronics, and 3-D sensing techniques based on radio-frequency devices and ground penetrating radar; advanced data analysis for diagnostics, prognostics, and decision-making based on structural analysis, machine learning and hybrid physics-informed machine learning; documentation, integration and visualization using virtual tours, information modelling, and augmented reality; smart, kinetic, deployable, and adaptable structures; holistic analysis of heritage structures; and engineering and the arts in general. His application domains include concrete, steel, and masonry structures: bridges, buildings, pipelines; kinetic smart structures for coastal protection; and historical buildings, monuments, and sites.

Prof. Glišić is author and co-author of more than hundred published papers, short courses on SHM, and the book "Fibre Optic Methods for Structural Health Monitoring". He is Council Member and fellow of ISHMII, voting member of ACI committee 444, and member of several other professional associations and journal editorial boards. Prof. Glišić is recipient of several awards including prestigious SHM Person of the Year Award and ASCE Moisseiff Award.

Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University

Director, Program in Archeology, Department of Art & Archeology, Princeton University

Affiliated Faculty, Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT), Rutgers University

Faculty Associate, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), Princeton University

Associated Faculty, The Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment (ACEE), Princeton University

Associated Faculty, Princeton Institute for Materials (PRISM), Princeton University

1996-2000: Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

1989-1996: B.Sc. in Theoretical Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, Serbia

1989-1994: B.C.E. in Civil Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia

• Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) for sustainable and resilient future cities based on advanced sensing, data analysis, structural modeling, and emerging digital technologies

• Advanced SHM technologies: fiber optic sensors (FOS), 2D sensing sheets based on large area electronics (LAE), 3D sensing using ground penetrating radar (GPR), and embedded passive radio-frequency (RF) sensors

• Advanced SHM data analysis: physics-based, data-driven, and hybrid diagnostics and prognostic by combined analytical and numerical modelling with machine learning

• Advanced data and metadata management: documentation, integration, and visualization using Photogrammetry, Virtual Tours, Information Modelling, and Augmented Reality (VT/IM/AR)

• SHM-based decision-making: Bayesian inference, cognitive and organizational bias of heuristics, expected utility theory (EUT), prospect theory (PT), and value of information (VOI)

• Cyber-Physical Systems based on true Smart Structures (kinetic, deployable, and adaptable)

• Heritage structures and structural art: holistic analysis for sustainable preservation and reuse

ACTIVE

• CEE 312 / MAE 312: Statics of Structures (annualy, Spring) website

• CEE 537: Structural Health Monitoring (bi-annualy, Fall) website

• CEE 538 / ART 538: Holistica Analysis of Heritage Structures (bi-annualy, Fall or Spring) website

COLLABORATIVE / PERIODIC

• CEE 102A / EGR 102A / MAE 102A : Engineering in the Modern World (preceptor, annualy, Fall) website

• CEE 463 / GLS 263 / CEE / 263: A Social and Multi-Dimensional Exploration of Structures (Fall 2012, Fall 2016, Summer 2019)

• CEE 415 / HUM 417 / ART 408 / HLS 417: Historical Structures: Ancient Architecture's Materials, Construction and Engineering (Fall 2022) website

• Short course on SHM using fiber-optic sensors website

FORMER

• CEE 521: Continuum Mechanics (Fall 2010, Fall 2012, Fall 2014, Fall 2016) website

• EGR156: Foundations of Engineering: Multivariable Calculus (Fall 2019, Fall 2020)

2022-present: Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), Princeton University

2015-2022: Associate Professor, Princeton University, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Eng.

2009-2015: Assistant Professor, Princeton University, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Eng.

2000-2008: Solutions & Services Manager / R&D Manager, SMARTEC SA, Switzerland

1996-2000: Ph.D. Student, Teaching Assistant, Project Manager, EPFL, Switzerland

1994-1996: Teaching Assistant, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Civil Engineering

RESEARCH HONORS AND AWARDS

2021: ASCE Moisseiff Award, "…to an important paper published in a print issue of an ASCE journal … dealing with the broad field of structural design, including applied mechanics...", by Structural Engineering Institute of American Soc. of Civ. Eng.

2019: ISHMII Fellow, "…highest class of membership… achieved a position of high responsibility and have contributed significantly to the advancement of the field through research or practice or both.", by Int'l Soc. for SHM of Intelligent Infrastr.

2019: SPIE Community Champion, "for commitment to SPIE, its mission, and broader optics and photonics community", by International Society for Optics and Photonics.

2014: Highly Commended Award, CIOB International Innovation & Research Awards 2013 in the Innovation Achiever's Award category, "...celebrate the best in research and development, both in academic institutions and out in the industry…", by The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), UK

2014: E. Lawrence Keyes, Jr. / Emerson Electric Co. Faculty Advancement Award ('Junior faculty advancement award'), "recognizing excellence in teaching and scholarship", by the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University

2013: The Structural Health Monitoring Person of the Year Award, "…made an outstanding contribution to the field of SHM that will benefit society...", by the editorial board, associate editors, and editors of Structural Health Monitoring: An International Journal

2012: First place, 7th Annual Innovation Forum, by Keller Center, Princeton University

2007: Award for Best Paper in SHM Applications at SHMII 3rd International Conference, recognition for outstanding contribution by ISHMII with the JMBT Structures Research Inc.

2017: Princeton Engineering Commendation List for Outstanding Teaching, SEAS, Princeton University (for AY 2016/17 Fall Course CEE 521 'Continuum Mechanics')

TEACHING HONORS AND AWARDS

2021: Excellence in Teaching Award, Undergraduate and Graduate Engineering Council (E-Council) of Princeton University (for AY 2019/20 Spring Course CEE 312 'Statics of Structures')

2017: Princeton Engineering Commendation List for Outstanding Teaching, SEAS, Princeton University (for AY 2016/17 Fall Course CEE 521 'Continuum Mechanics')

2016: Princeton Engineering Commendation List for Outstanding Teaching, SEAS, PU (for AY 2015/16 Fall Course CEE 539 'Structural Health Monitoring')

2014: Princeton Engineering Commendation List for Outstanding Teaching, SEAS, PU (for AY 2013/14 Fall Course CEE 539 'Structural Health Monitoring')

2013: Princeton Engineering Commendation List for Outstanding Teaching, SEAS, Princeton University (for AY 2012/13 Spring Course CEE 312 'Statics of Structures')

2012: Princeton Engineering Commendation List for Outstanding Teaching, SEAS, Princeton University (for AY 2011/12 Spring Course CEE 312 'Statics of Structures')

2011: Princeton Engineering Commendation List for Outstanding Teaching, SEAS, Princeton University (for AY 2010/11 Spring Course CEE 312 'Statics of Structures')

2011: Excellence in Teaching Award, Undergraduate and Graduate Engineering Council (E-Council) of Princeton University (for AY 2009/10 Spring Course CEE 312 'Statics of Structures')

HOBBY HONORS AND AWARDS

2022: Literary Achievement Award, IBNS Journal "Fred Philipson Award" Honorable Mention, by International Bank Note Society (IBNS)

2017: Literary Achievement Award, Book of the Year 4th Place, by International Bank Note Society (IBNS)

2016: Diploma honoring 20 years of membership, and gratitude for outstanding contributions to the advance of numismatics and the Serbian Numismatic Society, by the Serbian Numismatic Society (SND), Belgrade, Serbia

2008: Medal for significant contribution to advance of numismatics and to development of Serbian Numismatic Sociaty (SND), Belgrade, Serbia

Book “Fibre Optic Methods for Structural Health Monitoring” and more than 200 other papers published in journals, magazines, conferences, and theses website

Serbian (Croatian, Bosnian and Montengrin), English, French, Italian, and Macedonian

Research in numismatics, notaphily, and scripophily (papers published in hobbyist journals, member of Association of Friends of State Monetary Museum in Lausanne, Serbian Numismatic Society, Belgrade, Macedonian Numismatic Society, Skopje, and International Bank Note Society)

Mathematics - Non-Euclidian and Multi-dimensional geometries, Philosophy of Mathematics

Comics - Pratt, Bilal, Jodorowsky, Moebius, De Crecy, Scuiten, etc.

Traveling - More than 40 countries worldwide