Joshua Pelleg received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, M.Sc. in Metallurgy at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, and Ph.D. in Metallurgy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. He has been in the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) Materials Engineering Department in Beer-Sheva, Israel, since 1970, and was among the founders of the department, and served as its second chairman. He was the recipient of the Samuel Ayrton Chair in Metallurgy. He specializes in the mechanical properties of materials and the diffusion and defects in solids. He has chaired several university committees and served four terms as the chairman of Advanced Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Prior to his work at BGU, he acted as the assistant professor and then associate professor in the Department of Materials and Metallurgy at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. He was also a visiting professor in the Department of Metallurgy a
