Shlomo Havlin (Hebrew: שלמה הבלין) (born July 21, 1942) is a professor in the Department of Physics at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

Shlomo Havlin was born in Jerusalem, Israel (then part of The British Mandate of Palestine).

He is named after his grandfather Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Havlin, founder of the Torat Emet yeshiva in Hebron.

He is second cousins with Prof. Shlomo Zalman Havlin, founder of the Department of Information Studies and Librarianship at Bar-Ilan University.

During 1978–1979 he was a Royal Society Visiting Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, where he worked with Professors William Cochran and Roger Cowley.

He was the President of the Israel Physical Society (1996–1999) and the Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at Bar-Ilan University (1999–2001).

The earlier works of Prof. Havlin, where he discovered several of these important anomalies, had an enormous impact on the development of the whole field and are summarized in the monograph “Diffusion and Reactions in Fractals and Disordered Systems”[5] that he wrote together with his former graduate student Daniel ben-Avraham (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

The book describes the anomalous physical laws discovered during 1980–2000 in fractals and disordered systems, many of them by Havlin and his collaborators.

In 2000, Havlin and his student Reuven Cohen, together with Daniel ben-Avraham developed a novel percolation-type approach and derived the first theory on the stability of realistic complex networks such as the Internet under random breakdown (Phys.