Background
Shapiro, Michael was born on August 13, 1951 in St. Petersburg, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Victor and Tamara (Shulman) Shapiro. arrived in Israel, 1979.
researcher engineering educator
Shapiro, Michael was born on August 13, 1951 in St. Petersburg, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Victor and Tamara (Shulman) Shapiro. arrived in Israel, 1979.
Engineer-Physicist, Polytechnic Institute, St. Petersburg, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1974. Doctor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel, 1984.
Research engineer Institute Mining Industry, Haifa, Israel, 1979-1980. Instructor Technion, 1980-1984, senior lecturer, 1986—1991, associate professor, 1991—1999, professor, 1999—2002, Harry Oppenheimer professor engineering, since 2002, dean, faculty mechanics engineering, since 2007. Bantrel postdoctoral fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1984-1986.
Director research National Scientific Research Center, Poitiers, France, 1993-1994. Member steering committee Forum Bulk Solids Handling, Israel, since 1994.
Member Israel Association Aerosol Research (president 1996-1997), International Aerosol Research Assembly (delegate, chair awards committee since 1990), European Aerosol Association (board directors, president since 2006).
Married Galina Kantor, October 7, 1974. Children: Michael Junior, Daniela, Jonathan.