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Rector - Prof. Chaim Hames
Tel: 972-8-6461223
Fax: 972-8-6479434
Email:
rector@bgu.ac.il
Prof. Chaim Hames
took up the rector's postion on August 1, 2018.
He served as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev from 2016, until he was elected rector.
Hames received his PhD in Medieval History from Cambridge University in 1996, and since then has been a lecturer in the Department of General History at BGU. From 2011-2015, he was the department chair.
In 2013, he set up
the Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters
as part of the I-CORE initiative (one of two Center's funded in the Humanities and the only Center based in BGU).
His research interests include Medieval and Renaissance Jewish, Christian and Muslim mysticism and philosophy, apocalypticism, inter-religious polemics, conversion, Bible and Talmud translations and issues dealing with religious conversion.
Vice Rector, Prof. Gal deBotton
Tel: 972-8-6477780
Fax: 972-8-6479434
Email:
vicerector@bgu.ac.il
Prof. deBotton took up the position on August 5, 2018.
He served as Head of BGU's Department of Biomedical Engineering from 2007 till 2012.
Gal deBotton received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993, and since has been a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at BGU.
Since 2007 he is also affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
His research interests, in the field of the Mechanics of Solids, are: composite and smart materials, mechanical response of soft biological tissues, electro-mechanical coupling in polymer networks, and shape memory alloys (Nitinol) springs.
Prof. Timor Melamed, Pro-Rector for Education
Tel: 972-8-6479359
Fax: 972-8-6479434
Email: prorector@bgu.ac.il
Prof. Melamed took up the position on March 1st, 2021.
He served as Head of BGU's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2013 till 2014.
Timor Melamed received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1996 from Tel-Aviv University. Since 2002 he is a faculty member of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at BGU.
His main fields of interest include spectral methods in propagation and scattering of waves, analytical methods in time domain electromagnetics, relativistic scattering from moving objects and electrodynamics, imaging and inverse scattering, and beam methods.
