Aleksey Drozdov is a Professor in the Institute for Industrial Mathematics at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'ersheba, Israel. He is a member of the Israel Mathematical Society and the New York Academy of Sciences. Dr. Drozdov received an M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Moscow University, a Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Moscow University, and a D.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He is the author of five books and more than 100 papers in the field of continuum mechanics and stability theory.