We are pleased and proud to announce that the International Hanin prize winner for 2026 is the distinguished Professor Eli Livne from the University of Washington’s William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, USA.
As the awardee of the International Hanin Prize, Prof. Livne is expected to lecture at the annual Israeli Aerospace Science Conference in March 2026 and conduct a seminar at the faculty.
The late Prof. Meir Hanin International Prize is awarded every two years for significant scientific and/or technological achievements in aerospace sciences. Prof. Meir Hanin is one of the founding fathers of the faculty. Read more about the faculty’s awards and the Hanin Prize.
About Professor Eli Livne
Professor Livne holds B.Sc. (1974) and M.Sc. (1982) degrees in aeronautical engineering from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. (1990) in aerospace engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Over the course of his academic career, Prof. Livne has continued extensive collaboration with both industry and defense organizations. With expertise in aeroelasticty, aeroservoelasticity, multidisciplinary flight vehicle optimization, aircraft design, aerospace structures, structural optimization, and structural dynamics, Professor Livne’s research has been funded by NASA, the FAA, AFOSR, ONR, NSF, and by Boeing. He was an associate editor for the AIAA Journal and a guest editor for a Journal of Aircraft special section on MDO. He was one of the launch section editors for the Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering and has published about a hundred and seventy journal and conference papers. Professor Livne was the Editor-in-Chief (2011-2022) of the AIAA’s (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Journal of Aircraft. He is a Fellow of the AIAA.
Professor Livne is the recipient of the AIAA Ashley Award for Aeroelasticity for 2021 “For carrying out foundational works for aeroservoelastic optimization; leadership in maturing active flutter suppression to practice, and for major contributions to dissemination of aeroelastic knowledge.” Also the ICAS Award for Innovation in Aeronautics, 2022, International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS): “for seminal contributions to the theory and practice of Aeroservoelasticity in the context of aircraft Multidisciplinary Design Optimization, and pioneering work towards the maturation of aircraft active flutter suppression technology.” The general purpose of the award is: “to recognize contributions of an individual or a team in effectively integrating a suite of advanced technologies, combined with new design and/or manufacturing processes, to create a new aeronautical system with significant worldwide impact.”
