Zdenek P. Bazant received his PhD from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1963.He joined Northwestern University, Illinois in 1969, where he has been W. P. Murphy Professor since 1990 and simultaneously McCormick Institute Professor since 2002, and Director of the Center for Geomaterials (1981-7). He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the US National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Society of London, as well as the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Engineering Academy of the Czech Republic, the Italian National Academy, the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering, the Istituto Lombardo, Milan, the Academia Europaea, London, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Bazant is an Honorary Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Concrete Institute, and RILEM (International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures), Paris. He has received the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class, 7 honorary doctorates, ASME Timoshenko, Nadai and Warner Medals, the ASCE von Karman, Newmark, Biot, Mindlin and Croes Medals and Lifetime Achievement Award, the Society of Engineering Science William Prager Medal, and the RILEM L'Hermite Medal, among others. He is the author of Scaling of Structural Strength (2002), Inelastic Analysis of Structures (with Milan Zirásek, 2001), Fracture and Size Effect in Concrete and Other Quasibrittle Materials (with Jaime Planas, 1997), Stability of Structures (with Luigi Cedolin, 2010) and Concrete at High Temperatures (with Maurice F. Kaplan, 1996). In 2015, ASCE established ZP Baant Medal for Failure and Damage Prevention. He is one of the original top 100 ISI Highly Cited Scientists in Engineering (www.ISIhighlycited.com).
