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. Highlights of these collaborations include structural and aeroelastic optimization and lightweight airframe design with Boeing Commercial Aircraft, membership on the NASA-Boeing High Speed Civil Transport (HSCT) Aeroelastic Concept Evaluation Team and the Boeing HSCT Aeroservoelastic working group, and contributions to industry / government wind tunnel aeroelastic tests of highly nonlinear flight vehicle configurations.
Prof. Livne’s accomplishments have been recognized by an ASME/Boeing Structures & Materials Award (1998), NSF National Young Investigator Award, and earlier the Josephine de Karman Fellowship. 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 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.”
