Theodore Zoli Named MacArthur Fellow
Bunker Hill Bridge
Zoli was involved with the Bunker Hill Bridge in Boston, the world's widest cable-stayed bridge.
Theodore Zoli, P.E., M.ASCE, a bridge engineer with HNTB Corporation in New York City, was named a MacArthur Fellow on September 22, 2009. The MacArthur Fellowship, nicknamed the "Genius Award," is a is a five-year grant of $500,000 awarded to individuals who show exceptional creativity in their work and the prospect for still more in the future. Since the MacArthur Fellows Program began in 1981, only 11 of the 805 named fellows have been engineers.

Zoli has worked on complex projects including the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge in Boston, Massachusetts, the Sixth Street Viaduct in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Bandra-Worli Sea Link in Mumbai, India, the Blennerhassett Island Bridge in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge in Omaha, Nebraska. The author of numerous technical papers, Zoli is a visiting lecturer in the civil engineering department at Princeton University.

Zoli is a vice president of HNTB and serves as its national technical director of its bridge practice. He received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Princeton University and a master’s degree in civil engineering from the California Institute of Technology.