Background
Ionel Michael was born on 28 April in 1940 in Bucharest, Romania. Son of David and Sarah (Schwartzman) Navon.
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Ionel Michael Navon
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Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Hebrew University Jerusalem, 1967; Master of Science in Atmospheric Sciences, Hebrew University Jerusalem, 1971; Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Mathematics, University Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1979.
Career
Senior research meteorologist Israel Meteorological Office, Tel Aviv, 1973-1974; head applied mathematics section Tamam/Israel Aircraft Industry, 1974-1976; senior research officer Council Science and Industrial Research, Pretoria, South Africa, 1976-1978, chief research officer South Africa, 1979-1980, senior chief research officer South Africa, 1981-1983; senior visiting scientist National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, 1983-1984; consultant National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Goddarad Space Flight Center, 1984-1985; senior specialist researcher Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria, 1984-1985; associate research scientist Supercomputer Research Institute, Tallahassee, 1985-1987; associate professor mathematics Florida State University, 1987-1990, professor, since 1991, program director optimization and optimal control, since 1993, honorary professor department meteorology Supercomputer Research Institute, since 1987, faculty associate Supercomputer Computation Research Institute, since 1988, faculty associate Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute, since 1989, director applied math department math, since 1998; Director applied mathematics Florida State University, since 1998; consultant Center Analysis Prediction of Storms, Norman, Oklahoma, 1989, French Navy, 1995; leader Argonne National Laboratory; co-organizer International Conference Element Methods in Geophysics, Tallahassee, 1991; summer lecture series scientist National Aeronautics and Space Administration, since 1991; member panel national experts to review and conduct site visiting Oklahoma Science and Technology Center; keynote speaker International Conference on Finite Element Methods, South Africa, 1992, International Conference on Optimization Techniques and Applications, Singapore, 1992, Assimilation of Meteorological and Oceanographic Observations, France, 1993; Editor special issues Computer and Mathematics with Applications, editor Monthly Weather Review, 1991-1994, Journal Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, editor Monthly Weather Review, 2001, 2008- Editor International Journal Numerical Methods in Fluids. 1991, Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal, 1992; chief editor special issue Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, 1998; special editor International Journal on Computational Fluid Dynamics, 2003; contributor over 95 refereed articles to science journals.
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Ionel married to Lily Marcu on May 11, 1967.
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