Rate My Professor Eyal Levenberg

Eyal Levenberg is Associate Professor and Head of Section for Geotechnics and Geology in the Department of Environmental and Resource Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Sustain), a position he has held since March 2022. Previously, he served as Associate Professor in Civil Engineering at DTU from March 2016 to February 2022. He earned his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in December 2006 (magna cum laude), MSc in Management from Tel Aviv University in June 2000 (cum laude), and BSc in Civil Engineering from the Technion in April 1993. Earlier in his career, Levenberg was Assistant Professor (tenured from March 2015) in the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Technion from March 2009 to February 2016, Postdoctoral Researcher at Purdue University from December 2006 to December 2008, and Visiting Researcher at the University of Pisa in 2009. He also worked as an Engineering Officer in the Civil Engineering Division of the Israeli Air Force from April 1999 to December 2017 and founded E.L. Engineering consulting firm in December 2017, providing services in pavement design, geotechnical design, and on-site supervision.

Levenberg's research specializes in thermo-mechanics of pavement infrastructure, semi-analytic pavement modeling and analysis, pavement infrastructure sensing and digital twinning, and constitutive modeling and characterization of asphalt concrete. He has produced over 100 publications, including 62 journal articles and the book Pavement Mechanics: Lecture Notes (2020, ISBN 978-87-972317-0-8). Notable papers include Inversion of Asphalt Pavement Properties From Slopes Reported by the Traffic Speed Deflectometer (Transportation Research Record, 2026), Improved Moduli Backcalculation of the Upper Layers in Asphalt Pavements (Journal of Transportation Engineering Part B: Pavements, 2025), Analytic Pavement Modelling with a Fragmented Layer (International Journal of Pavement Engineering, 2022), Exposing the Nonlinear Viscoelastic Behavior of Asphalt-Aggregate Mixes (Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials, 2012), and Viscoelastic-Viscoplastic Characterization of Unbound Granular Material (Advances in Civil Engineering Materials, 2014). His scholarship has garnered over 1,394 citations. Levenberg has received the A. Arenson Prize for teaching excellence (Technion-IIT, 2013), Technion award for teaching excellence (2012), International Road Federation Executive Fellowship Award (2007), Esther and Mordechai Rubinstein Prize for Excellence in Engineering Economics (Technion-IIT, 1992), and Yitzhak Alpan Prize for Excellence in Geomechanics (Technion-IIT, 1992). He supervises PhD projects on pavement modeling and participates in initiatives like Blades2Build for recycling wind blade composites.