Matalon Joins MechSE

Dr. Moshe Matalon, formerly a professor of engineering sciences and applied mathematics and mechanical engineering at Northwestern University, has joined MechSE as the College of Engineering Caterpillar Professor. Matalon is internationally recognized for his fundamental contributions to combustion theory and reacting flows. His research interests include developing and analyzing mathematical models that support experimental observations and provide a rigorous framework for understanding the complex phenomena occurring in combustion systems. He earned his Ph.D. in 1977 from the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. In addition to serving as a professor at Northwestern University, he has been a visiting professor at Tel Aviv University, Ecole Polytechnique Féderalé de Lausanne, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule, Institut Henri Poincaré and the Lady Davis Professor at the Technion.

Matolon has published more than 100 articles and in 2004 received the best paper award on Propellants and Combustion from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics, an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a member of the Combustion Institute and the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He has served on NASA review panels for space experiments, and between 1999 and 2002 chaired the Propellants and Combustion Technical Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He serves on the advisory board of the US-Israel Bi-National Science Foundation and has served as editor-in-chief of Combustion Theory and Modelling since 2001.