Prof. Gedeon Dagan School of Mechanical Engineering The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering Tel Aviv University Ramat Aviv 69978 ISRAEL Phone: +972-3-640-8392 Fax: +972-3-640-7334 e-mail: dagan@eng.tau.ac.il

D.Sc.: Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Haifa, Israel.

Research Interests:

• Theory of flow through porous media
• Groundwater hydrology
• Water waves and naval hydrodynamics

Other Academic Activities:

Honors and Awards

• Elected Member, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (2006).
  Link to The Israel Academy of Sciences
• Doctor Honoris Causa, Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania (2006)
  Doctor Honoris Causa
• The Rothschild Prize. The Rothschild Foundation, Israel (2006).
  The Rothschild Prize
• Robert E. Horton Medal, American Geophysical Union (2005).
  Citation and response, EOS - 14 Feb. 2006
• Member of the Highly Cited Researchers list in the categories Engineering and Ecology/Environment, Institute for Scientific Information, USA (2002)
  Link to Web Site ISIHighlyCited and Link to ISIHighlyCited Community News
• Stockholm Water Prize (1998)
• The Water Academy (life membership), Oslo, Norway, 1998
  Link to Web Site The Water Academy
• Doctor Honoris Causa, University "Pierre et Marie Curie", Paris-6 (1996).
  Citation of Professor Gedeon Dagan by Professor G. De Marsily
• The Raquel and Manuel Klachky Chair of Subsurface Hydrology, Tel Aviv University (1994-2003).
• Visiting Miller Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley (1991). 
  
• Elected Fellow, American Geophysical Union (1989).
  Link to AGU Web Site
• The Horton Award of the Hydrology Section of the American Geophysical Union (1984).
  Link to AGU Web Site
  

Editorial Positions

Past

• Associate Editor of "Water Resources Research"
• Member of the International Advisory Board of "Handbook of Hydrology"
• Member of the Editorial Boards of:
  • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Multiscale Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation: A SIAM Interdisciplinary Journal (MMAS)
  • Associate Editor of Vadose Zone Journal.

Present

• Editor, books series "Environmental Fluid Mechanics", Kluwer Academic Publishers.
• Member of the Editorial Boards of:
  • Journal of Hydraulic Research
  • Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics
  • Transport in Porous Media
• Member of the UNESCO Hydrology Editorial Series published by Cambridge University Press.

Professional and Public Appointments

• National representative in the Groundwater Committee of the International Association of Scientific Hydrology.
• Academic Director of the Stockholm Junior Water Prize Competition in Israel (www.eng.tau.ac.il/water/).
• Representative of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Water Program of the InterAcademy Panel on International Issues.

Membership of Professional Organizations

• The Israeli Hydrology Union
• The Israeli Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
• The American Geophysical Union
• The American Water Resources Association
• The International Association of Scientific Hydrology.

Active Participation at International Meetings and Courses (since 1995)

• Subsurface Flow and Transport : The Stochastic Approach, The UNESCO IHP/IAHS Second George Kovacs Colloquium (convener and opening lecture), Paris, January 1995.
• The Peace Process and the Environment (invited lecture), Tel Aviv University, The Porter Center, May 1995.
• International Workshop on the Status of the Common Israeli Palestinian-Jordanian Aquifer Systems, Karlsruhe, Germany, June 1995.
• Israeli-German G.I.F. Workshop on Environmental Sciences (invited lecture), Leipzig, Germany, July 1995.
• The 12th National French Congress of Mechanics (plenary opening lecture), Strassbourg, September 1995.
• International workshop on porous media, Oberwolfach, Germany (invited lecture), March 1996.
• International Summer School on Environmental Dynamics, invited lecturer in the program on ``Ergodicity, scales and anomalies in transport'', Instituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice, June 1996.
• Workshop on Stochastic Hydrology following the ceremony of Doctor Honoris Causa to G. Dagan, University "Pierre et Marie Curie", Paris, Feb 1997.
• Fourth SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Albuquerque, New Mexico (invited speaker), June 1997.
• The 8th Stockholm Water Symposium, Stockholm, August 1998 (keynote opening lecture).
• International Conference on Groundwater Quality: Remediation and Protection, Tuebingen, Germany, Sept. 1998, (invited lecture).
• Water Security in the Third Millenium: Mediterranean Countries towards a Regional Vision, Forum of the UNESCO International School of Science for Peace, Como, Italy (invited lecture), April 1999.
• Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Flow and Transport in Porous Media (invited speaker), Los Alamos, August 1999.
• International Workshop on ''Testable stochastic features of subsurface structures, flow and transport'' (invited speaker), Ascona, Switzerland, October 1999.
• International Workshop on Mathematics of Porous Media (invited lecture), Oberwolfach, Germany, January, 2000.
• Annual Congress of the European Geophysical Society, Nice, April, 2000
• The 2000 International Congress of Applied and Theoretical Mechanics (invited sectional lecture), Chicago, August, 2000.
• (with P. Indelman, S. Lessoff, A. Mercado), Annual Meeting of the Israeli Association for Water Resources, Dead Sea, Israel, May 2001.
• Fluid Flow and Transport in Porous Media: Mathematical and Numerical Treatment, American Mathematical Society, Mount Holyoke, Mass., USA, June 2001.
• Bridging the Gap Between Measurement and Modeling in Heterogeneous Media (keynote speaker), Joint IAHA, AGU and ASCE International Groundwater Symposium, Berkeley, USA, March, 2002.
• Calibration and reliability in groundwater modeling (invited lecture), ModelCare 2002, IASH Conference, Prague, June, 2002.
• 2nd Symposium on Computational Modeling of Multi-Scale Phenomena (invited plenary lecture), sponsored by IUTAM, Petropolis, Brazil, August, 2002
• Strategies for controlling and predicting transport of contaminants to groundwater from the unsaturated zone (opening key-note lecture), Ravello, Italy, April 2003.
• International conference on the analytical element method (invited lecture), St Etienne, France, November, 2003.
• International Conference Computational Methods in Water Resources (invited plenary lecture), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, June, 2004.
• The 2nd Israeli Palestinian International Conference on Water for Life in the Middle East., Antalya, Turkey, October, 2004.
• Calibration and reliability in groundwater modeling, ModelCare 2005, IASH Conference, Scheveningen, Netherlands, June, 2005.
• American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, (invited lecture), San Francisco, December, 2005
• International Groundwater Symposium on Groundwater Hydraulics in Complex Environments (keynote lecture), IAHR Conference, Toulouse, France, June 2006.
• First SWIM-SWICA Conference on Sea Water Intrusion (keynote lecture), Chia Laguna, Sardinia, Italy, September 2006.
• Calibration and reliability in groundwater modeling, ModelCare 2007, IASH Conference, Copenhagen, September, 2007.
• XIV International Conference on "Energy crisis, water shortage and climate change in the Mediterranean area" (invited lecture), Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Castiglione dela Pescaia, Italy, May 2008
• Conference on "Disorder and composite media" in honor of Prof. D.J. Bergman (invited lecture), Tel Aviv University, June 2008.
• (with I. Jankovic and A. Fiori), International conference on scaling up and modeling of transport and flow in porous media, Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 2008.

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