Moshe Matalon is an Israeli-American mechanical engineer and applied mathematician, currently the Caterpillar Distinguished Professor at
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He finished his bachelor's and master's degree from
Tel Aviv University in 1973 and completed his PhD in 1977 from
Cornell University, under the supervision of
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. He worked at
New York University Tandon School of Engineering from 1978 to 1980 and then at
Northwestern University from 1980 to 2006. He finally moved to
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 2007. His research area includes
combustion and
fluid dynamics
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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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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
1949 births
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