Yoseph Bar-Cohen

Yoseph Bar-Cohen () is a physicist retiree from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He specialized in electroactive materials driven mechanisms and ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation (NDE), and was also responsible for the JPL's [[Nondestructive Evaluation and Advance Actuators] http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/] (NDEAA) lab. He was formerly a Group Supervisor and a Senior Research Scientist. Bar-Cohen is a fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) and the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) [https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1262-9917],

He has 43 registered patents, edited and coauthored 12 books, co-authored 460+ publications, and co-chaired 56 international conferences [http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/nasa-nde/yosi/yosi.htm]. Using ultrasonic waves in composite materials, he discovered the polar backscattering (1979) and leaky lamb waves (1983) phenomena [https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1262-9917]

Bar-Cohen received a M.Sc. in materials science in 1973 and a Ph.D. in physics in 1979, both from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Bar-Cohen started SPIE's Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) conference, which he has chaired twenty two times, as well as proposing the Armwrestling Match of EAP Robotic Arm Against Human. Provided by Wikipedia