Yoseph Bar-Cohen

Who is Yoseph Bar-Cohen?

Yoseph Bar-Cohen is a physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who specializes in electroactive materials and ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation, and is responsible for the Nondestructive Evaluation and Advance Actuators lab at JPL. Dr. Bar-Cohen is a fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering and the American Society for Nondestructive Testing.

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 conference, which he has chaired six times, as well as proposing the Armwrestling Match of EAP Robotic Arm Against Human.