Moshe Matalon () is an Israeli-American mechanical engineer and applied mathematician, currently the Caterpillar Distinguished Professor at

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the f ...

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He finished his bachelor's and master's degree from

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) is a Public university, public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Located in northwest Tel Aviv, the university is the center of teaching and ...

in 1973 and completed his PhD in 1977 from

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

, under the supervision of Geoffrey S. S. Ludford. He worked at

New York University Tandon School of Engineering The New York University Tandon School of Engineering (commonly referred to as Tandon) is the engineering and applied sciences school of New York University. Tandon is the second oldest private engineering and technology school in the United St ...

from 1978 to 1980 and then at

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

from 1980 to 2006. He finally moved to

in 2007. His research area includes

combustion Combustion, or burning, is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen, that produces oxidized, often gaseous products, in a mixture termed as smoke. Combustion ...

and

fluid dynamics In physics, physical chemistry and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids – liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including (the study of air and other gases in motion ...

. Matalon was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1995, Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP) in 1999, Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in 2012, and Fellow of the Combustion Institute in 2018. He is an Associate of the UIUC Centre of Advanced Study and recipient of several awards, including the AIAA Pendray Aerospace Literature Award (2010), the AIAA Fluid Dynamics Award (2016), the Numa Manson medal of the Institute for the Dynamics of Explosions and Reaction Systems (2017), and the Ya. B. Zeldovich Gold Medal of the Combustion Institute (2020). Matalon also serves as an Editor-in-Chief of Combustion Theory and Modelling.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Matalon, Moshe 1949 births Fellows of the American Physical Society Living people University of Illinois faculty American mechanical engineers Israeli engineers Tel Aviv University alumni Cornell University alumni Fluid dynamicists Fellows of the Combustion Institute

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