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

Research Interests:

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

Other Academic Activities:

Honors and Awards

• Israel Prize (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences), 2013
  http://www.hayadan.org.il/gideon-dagan-2512124/
  
• Doctor Honoris Causa, University "Frederico II", Napoli, Italy, 2012.
  http://www.spa-conference-naples2013.org/key-speakers.html, 
  http://www.spa-conference-naples2013.org/honorary-degree.html
• Interviewed by the International Association of Hydrogeology in the frame of  "Time capsule: Records and reflections of some eminent hydrogeologists of our time", 2012
  http://timecapsule.iah.org/person/gedeon-dagan/
  http://timecapsule.iah.org/gedeon-dagan-interview-with-a-master/
• Autobiography solicited and published by Groundwater, vol. 44, No 1, p.161-166, 2009.
  www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-6584.2008.00469.x/abstract
  
• 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)
  Stockholm Water Prize
  
• 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, Transport in Porous Media
• 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
• 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 2001)

• (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.
• (with A. Fiori), European Geosciences Union Assembly, Symposium on "Groundwater Stochastic Hydrology" (invited lecture), Vienna, April 2009.
• International Summer School on Environmental Dynamics, invited lecturer in the program ''Rain, Rivers and Turbulence'', Instituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice, June 2009.
• International workshop "Transport and Mixing in Complex and Turbulent Flows", The Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, June 2010.
• International workshop "Thirty years of stochastic subsurface hydrology :where do we stand and what are the emerging challenges?" (opening and invited lecture), CSF Conference  Center,Monte Verità, , Ascona, Switzerland, June 2010.
• IAHR International Groundwater Symposium, Valencia, Spain, 2010
• Conference of the Berlin-Brandenburg and Israel Academies of Science and Humanities on "Science and War, Science and Peace" (invited lecture), April 2011
• Symposium on "Porous Media Physics and Mathematics in honor of Pieter Raats" (invited lecture), Wageningen, Holland, May 2011.
• (with A.Fiori), International Workshop on "Tracer and Timescale Methods for Understanding Complex Geophysical and Environmental Processes" (invited lecture), Louvain, Belgium, August, 2011
• (with A.Fiori), International Workshop on "Numerical Analysis of Multiscale Problems and Stochastic Modeling" (invited lecture), Linz, Austria, December 2011.
• International Conference on "Groundwater Vulnerability-Emerging Issues and New Approaches" (keynote lecture), Paris, July 2012.
• (with Aldo Fiori), "Conceptual issues in upscaling of permeability of heterogeneous porous formations", European Geophysical Union Assembly, Vienna, April 2013.
• (with Aldo Fori), Channeling effect at the MADE transport experiment, European Geophysical Union Assembly, Vienna, April 2013.
• The 10th Annual Conference of the Israel Water Association (opening lecture), Israel, April 2013.
• (with Aldo Fiori), The impact of field data acquisition methodology upon prediction of transport in the MADE aquifer, International Conference on "Four Decades of Progress in Monitoring and Modeling of Processes in the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere System: Applications and Challenges", Napoli, June 2013.
• Two groundbreaking works of A. Mercado, Israel Association of Water Resources, Commemorative Meeting, November 2013
• mergence of dynamic effective properties in flow through heterogeneous aquifers,  European Geophysical  Union Assembly, Vienna, April 2014.
• Applicability of macrodispersivity to hydrological transport, European Geophysicazl Union   Assembly,  Vienna,  April 2015
• (with A. Fiori, A. Zarlenga and I. Jankovic), From heterogeneity characterization to prediction of transport in highly heterogeneous aquifers (with application to MADE), AGU Chapman  MADE Conference, Valencia, Spain, October, 2015