Doron Aurbach[6] was born in 1952 in Israel to parents who survived the Holocaust and fought the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, grew up in Ramat Gan and studied in Blich High School.

631st Reconnaissance Battalion, (an Israeli special force unit) and fought west to the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur War (1973).

Later he returned to Golani Brigade as a deputy commander of a combat support company, and was discharged from reserve duty with a rank of a Major (Hebrew: רב סרן), at the age of 46, as a patrol officer in the Armored Corps.

[9] Aurbach is a member of the small management team called IMLB LLC Ltd of the world organization of the advanced Li batteries community.

[19] He pioneered the use of some of the most effective analytical (spectroscopic and microscopic) techniques for operando studies[20] of the most reactive electrochemical systems (e.g. Li and Mg metal anodes[21] in nonaqueous electrolyte solutions).

[22] In his research Aurbach was able to identify major surface reactions which lead to the passivation[23] of active electrodes[24] which compose rechargeable battery[25] systems (Li, Li-C, Li-Si, lithiated transition metal oxides, Mg) in the relevant non-aqueous electrolyte solutions.

Aurbach is in the list of the world's most influential researchers of the past decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science.

[39] According to Research.com, a platform that offers credible data on scientific contributions, Aurbach ranks 89th and 133rd on the list of the world's leading scientists in Chemistry and Material Science, respectively.