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Tal Cohen

Contact Info

room 1-271

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

77 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Education

  • 2007

    Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion, Israel

    B.Sc.
  • 2011

    Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion, Israel

    M.Sc.
  • 2013

    Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion, Israel

    Ph.D.

Research Interests

  • Nonlinear Solid Mechanics
  • Material Growth
  • Material Instabilities

Honors + Awards

  • 2013 & 2014, Postdoctoral fellowship for outstanding woman, awarded by the Ministry of Education in Israel
  • 2013 & 2014, MIT - Technion Post-Doctoral Fellowship
  • 2013, Libai prize for excellence in studies in the field of aerospace structures
  • 2013, Gutwirth Scholarship for excellence in studies towards Ph.D
  • 2011 & 2012, Zonta International Amelia Earhart Fellowship
  • 2011, Hillel Prize for excellence in studies towards Ph.D
  • 2010, Professor Arnan Saginer Award for Excellence in Studies
  • 2009, Vivian Konigsberg Award for Excellence in Teaching
  • 2007, Technion excellence award for graduate students
  • 2006, Excellence in studies award from The Civil Center for Culture, Society and Economy, Israel
  • 2005, Yael Rom Studies Award for Women in Aerospace Engineering

Teaching

  • Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering Design (1.101)
  • Structural Dynamics (1.058/1.158/2.06/16.221)

Publications

  • Cohen, T., Kurzeja, P. and Bertoldi, K., 2017. Architected squirt-flow materials for energy dissipation. J.  Mech. Phys. Solids. 109, 22-33.
  • Lin, S., Cohen, T., Zhang, T., Yuk, H., Abeyaratne, R. and Zhao, X., 2016.  Fringe instability in constrained soft elastic layers.  Soft Matter, 12(43), pp.8899-8906.
  • Tomassetti, G., Cohen, T. and Abeyaratne, R., 2016. Steady accretion of an elastic body on a hard spherical surface and the notion of a four-dimensional reference space. J. Mech. Phys. Solids. 96, 333-352.
  • Cohen, T., and Molinari, A., 2015, Dynamic Cavitation and Relaxation in Incompressible Nonlinear Viscoelastic Solids. Int. J. Solids Struct., 69-70, 544 - 552.
  • Cohen, T., and Durban, D., 2015, Steady Shock Waves in Porous Plastic Solids. Int. J. Solids Struct., 71, 70-78.