Moshe Matalon (Hebrew: משה מטלון) is an Israeli-American mechanical engineer and applied mathematician, currently the Caterpillar Distinguished Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
[1][2] He finished his bachelor's and master's degree from Tel Aviv University in 1973 and completed his PhD in 1977 from Cornell University, under the supervision of Geoffrey S. S. Ludford.
His research area includes combustion and fluid dynamics.
He is an Associate of the UIUC Centre of Advanced Study and recipient of several awards, including the AIAA Pendray Aerospace Literature Award (2010), the AIAA Fluid Dynamics Award (2016), the Numa Manson medal of the Institute for the Dynamics of Explosions and Reaction Systems (2017), and the Ya.
Matalon also serves as an Editor-in-Chief of Combustion Theory and Modelling.