Name: Ali Zghal

Title: Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chairman of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Ecole Superieure des Sciences et Techniques de Tunis, Adjunct Professor at Tunisia Polytechnic School

Address: Ecole Superieure des Sciences et Techniques de Tunis, 5 Avenue Taha Hussein 1008 Montfleury, Tunis, Tunisia

Office Telephone: (+216) 71 496 066

Fax: (+216) 71 391 166

Email: ali.zghal@esstt.rnu.tn

Education: Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, 1984; M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Electrocommunications, Tkyo, Japan, 1981; B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Ecole Normale Supérieure de l'Enseignement Technique (currently Ecole Superieure des Sciences et Techniques de Tunis), Tunis, Tunisia.

Research Interests: Static and dynamic instability of thin walled structures, sheet metal processing, computer aided design, computer aided manufacturing, characterization and modelling of constitutive laws.