ISM awards the Lizzi Scholarship to graduate students to attend the International Workshop on Micropiles.

The scholarship is named for Dr. Fernando Lizzi (1913-2003), the visionary leader of ISM and the inventor of the "pali radice" or original "root pile" foundation system.

Applicants must reside in the country where the workshop is being hosted, be enrolled in graduate studies, and be either proposing to conduct or currently conducting research on micropiles.

The scholarship award includes travel and accommodations expenses for attendance at the workshop, complimentary workshop registration and a selection of micropile publications. Recipients deliver a short presentation on their research.

Lizzi Scholarship Recipients

9th Lizzi Scholarship, 2023: Kelly Flanagan, Ph.D. candidate and adjunct instructor at North Carolina State University,

8th Lizzi Scholarship, 2019: Ben Brittain, Queensland University of Technology, Australia,

7th Lizzi Scholarship, 2017: Maged Abdlrahem, Ph.D. candidate, Western University,

6th Lizzi Scholarship, 2014: Maciej Szczygielski, AGH University of Science and Technology,

5th Lizzi Scholarship, 2010: Sherif Lotfy A. Abdelaziz, Ph.D. candidate, Virginia Tech,

4th Lizzi Scholarship, 2009: James Amos of Balfour Beatty Ground Engineering, U.K.,

3rd Lizzi Scholarship, 2007: Mohamed Elkasagby, University of Western Ontario, Canada,

2nd Lizzi Scholarship, 2006: Stefan Vogt, Technical University of Munich,

1st Lizzi Scholarship, 2004: Shingo Morimasa of Toyohashi University of Technology,