[1] Avraham Gover was born in Lviv, Soviet Union to holocaust survivor parents – Hella and Aharon Graubart, and emigrated to Israel with his family in 1949.

During his Ph.D. studies, Gover was also a consultant at Meret - Electro-Optic Industry and at Heliotech, division of Spectrolab, involved in first development of Vertical Multi-Junction Solar Cells.

Gover served as the Head of the Kranzberg Institute of Electronic Devices Research, at Tel Aviv University in 1984-1985, and became a full professor in 1991.

[3] In 1988, Gover founded and headed a consortium for the development of the first Israeli FEL facility, including Tel-Aviv University, Weizmann Institute, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and NRC.

In 2003 Gover founded the FEL National Knowledge Center for Radiation Sources and Applications of the Israeli Ministry of Science – a collaboration of Tel Aviv and Ariel Universities - and he heads it since.

[5] In 2008 he became a fellow of the American Physical Society, "For outstanding scientific achievements and leadership in international cooperation in the area of Free Electron Lasers".

He was the Principal Investigator on the Strategic Defense Initiative Office (SDIO) contract on Free Electron Lasers in Science Applications International Corporation, Plasma Physics Division in 1987-1988, and the head of the Israeli FEL consortium (TAU, RAFAEL, NRC) in the years 1992-2000.

In 2005 he served as a member of the "Soft X-ray Free Electron Laser Committee" of ESFRI (EU), in charge of preparing a road map of the long term scientific infrastructure development of the European Union Commission.