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Gabi Ben-Dor Gabi Ben-Dor (Hebrew: גבי בן-דור ‎, born June 10, 1950) is the first incumbent of the Mower Professorial Chair of Shock Wave Studies at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the head of the Protective Technologies R&D Center, which he established, since 1997.

Early Life and Education
Professor Gabi Ben-Dor was born in 1950 in Beer Sheva, Israel, to Shoshana and Paul Sandor who survived the Holocaust and emigrated from Hungary to Beer Sheva, Israel, in March 1949. He was raised in Beer Sheva.

In 1964 he graduated from Masada Primary School, in 1968 he graduated from Mekif Alef high school, and joined the army for a compulsory 3-year service (1968-1971). His entire service was in the Artillery. In April 1970 he became an officer. As an officer he participated in the War of Attrition and was injured during this war. He resigned from the army as a Captain in 1971. Soon after, he started his academic career.

Academic Education
Professor Gabi Ben-Dor completed his B.Sc. (cum laude) in 1975 and his M.Sc. in 1976 (with distinction) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Professor Ben-Dor received his Ph.D. from the Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) of the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada and was awarded the G.N. Paterson Award for outstanding performance in his graduate studies in 1978. His Ph.D. supervisor was the world renowned scientist Professor Irvine Israel Glass. A year later (1979) he completed his Post-Doctoral research also at UTIAS.

Employment History at Ben-Gurion University (BGU)
After completing his Post-Doctoral research he returned to the Ben-Gurion University where he joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering and established his own research group in shock wave related phenomena and developed the Shock Tube Laboratory, which in 1997 became one of the laboratories of the Protective Technologies R&D Center that was also established by him. He has been with the Department of Mechanical Engineering until 2018 when he retired as a Professor Emeritus.

Top Managerial Positions at Ben-Gurion University
During 1987-1991 Prof. Gabi Ben-Dor served as the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering; he served as the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences during 1994-2000 and 2008-2011; during 2000-2006 he served as the Director of the Institutes for Applied Research of the Ben-Gurion University. In addition, since 1997 Prof. Gabi Ben-Dor served as the Head of the Protective Technologies R&D Center until his retirement in 2018.

Professional Academic and Scientific Activities and Consulting
1999-2011 Sapir Academic College 2000-2008 Negev Nuclear Research Center 2015-Present, Member of the Hungarian-Israeli Scientific Society 2005-Present, Member of the Editorial Board of the Springer Series of books on Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena

Scientific Publication (until December 2017)
Professor Ben-Dor has done extensive research in areas including: Shock wave reflection in steady, pseudo-steady and unsteady flows; Shock wave propagation in dust-gas suspensions; Shock wave interaction with cellular (porous and granular) materials; Turbulent mixing (Richtmyer-Meskov instability); Protective structures and Penetration.


 * Books
 * Ben-Dor, G., Shock-Wave Reflection Phenomena, Springer, New York, N.Y., U.S.A., 1991.
 * Ben-Dor, G., Igra, O. & Elperin, T. (Eds.), Handbook on Shock Waves (3 volumes), Academic Press, Boston. Massachusetts. U.S.A., 2001.
 * Ben-Dor, G., Dubinsky, A. & Elperin, T., Applied High-Speed Plate Penetration Dynamics, Springer series in Solid Mechanics and Its Application, Vol. 132, Springer, New York, N.Y., U.S.A., 2006.
 * Ben-Dor, G., Shock-Wave Reflection Phenomena, 2nd Edition, Springer, New York, N.Y., U.S.A., 2007.
 * Ben-Dor, G., Dubinsky, A. & Elperin, T., **High-Speed Penetration Dynamics – Engineering Models and Methods, World Scientific, Singapore, 2013.
 * Ben-Dor, G., Dubinsky, A. & Elperin, T., **World Scientific Handbook of Experimental Results on High-Speed Penetration into Metals, Concrete and Soils, World Scientific, Singapore, 2016.
 * Ben-Dor, G., Sadot, O. & Igra, O. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on Shock Waves-Vol. 1, Springer, New York, N.Y., U.S.A., 2017.
 * Ben-Dor, G., Sadot, O. & Igra, O. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on Shock Waves-Vol. 2, Springer, New York, N.Y., U.S.A., 2017.
 * About 100 chapters in books & collective volumes.
 * About 300 scientific papers in prestigious peer reviewed scientific journals.
 * About 35 invited plenary and keynote lectures at scientific conferences and meetings.
 * About 430 presentations of papers (oral or poster) at scientific conferences and meetings.

Visiting Professor Positions
Professor Ben-Dor has held visiting professor positions at a number of distinguished Universities and Research Institutes:
 * Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
 * Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of High Speed Mechanics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
 * Visiting Professor, Shock Wave Research Center (SWRC), Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
 * Visiting Professor, Mechanik, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
 * Visiting Professor, Laboratoire d'Aerothermique, C.N.R.S., Meudon, France.
 * Visiting Professor, Systemes Energetique et Transferts Thermiques, Universite de Provence, Marseille, France.
 * Visiting Professor, Stosswellenlabor, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
 * Visiting Professor, Institute for Applied Sciences, INSA of Rouen, France.
 * Visiting Professor, UFR Sciences et Techniques, University of Rouen, France.
 * Centenary Professor at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India.
 * Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-Madras), India.

Awards, Honors and Research Fellowships

 * 1972 Mechanical Engineering Department Chairman's award for outstanding academic record during the 1st year of his B.Sc. studies.
 * 1973 Faculty of Technology Dean's award for outstanding academic record during the 2nd year of his B.Sc. studies.
 * 1974 Faculty of Technology Dean's award for outstanding academic record during the 3rd year of his B.Sc. studies.
 * 1975 Faculty of Technology Dean's award for outstanding academic record during the 4th year of his B.Sc. studies.
 * 1976 Connaught Scholarship, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
 * 1977	Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
 * 1978	Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
 * 1978	G. N. Patterson Award for outstanding research and academic record during his Ph.D. studies at UTIAS, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
 * 2000	First incumbent of the Dr. Morton and Toby Mower Chair in Shock Wave Studies.
 * 2002 	First recipient of the Professor Meir Hanin Research Award, for his outstanding research on the "Revision of the State-of-the-Knowledge of the Reflection Phenomena of Shock Waves in Steady Flows".
 * 2005	Fellow of the Society of Shock Wave Research of India.
 * 2006	Recipient of the Rector’s Award for being the Outstanding Researcher of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences.
 * 2006	University of Rome, La Sapienza, Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Research of Gasdynamics and Its Application.
 * 2009	Centenary Professor Appointment at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
 * 2011	Acad. N.N. Semenov Gold Medal of the Russia Academy of Engineering Sciences for Outstanding Research in Shock Wave Related Phenomena.
 * 2015	External Member of the Public Body of the Hungarian Academy of Science.

Supervision of Graduate Students
Since joining the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1979, Professor Ben-Dor has supervised about 40 M.Sc. and 20 Ph.D. students.

Excellence in Teaching
Before being elected as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences in 1994, Prof. Gabi Ben-Dor’s students voted him Best Lecturer of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences.

Non-professional public activities
Member of the Executive Committee of the Association for the Foundation of the Memorial Museum of Hungarian Speaking Jewry, since 2011.

Family
Prof. Gabi Ben-Dor is married to Edna Magen. They have three children, Tsachit Rapaport, Lavi Magen and Shai Ben-Dor.