Gal Shmuel

Education

• 2012 – Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
• 2009 – M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
• 2008 – B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Research Interests

Non‑Hermitian elastodynamics; metamaterials and homogenization of composites; dielectric elastomers; finite deformations

Guest Appointments

• Post-doctoral scholar, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech, USA (2012-2014)
• Visiting scientist, Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering, University of Trento, Italy (2010)

Membership in Professional Societies

• SES – Society of Engineering Science

Honors and Awards

• Recipient of the European Research Council Consolidators grant 2021 (ERC CoG)
• 2016 – Citation for excellence in teaching (top 12% of Technion), Technion
• 2012 – Outstanding oral presentation by a PhD student, 32nd Israeli Mechanical Engineering Conference
• 2012 – ”Ehud Ben‑Amitay” prize, For aerospace related graduate research Ben‑Gurion
  University
• 2010 – European Erasmus Mundus fellowship, For excellent PhD students
• 2010 – The Paran fellowship from the Negev scholarship, For outstanding PhD students Ben‑GurionUniversity