Aleksey D. Drozdov Department of Chemical Engineering Room 330, Building 59 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva 84105 Israel Phone: +972-8-6472146 ; Fax: +972-8-6472916 Email:aleksey@bgumail.bgu.ac.il

Aleksey D. Drozdov graduated from Moscow University (Moscow, USSR) in
1975, received his PhD degree in applied mathematics from Moscow University in 1979 and his DSc degree (habilitation) in mechanical engineering in 1989. He conducted his postdoctoral research in viscoelasticity and viscoplasticity of polymers in Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1982-84) and held several visiting positions in Europe and North America (University of Erlangen, Germany; Technical University of Vienna, Austria; Aalborg University, Denmark; Technical University of Nova Scotia, Canada; West Virginia University, USA). He is an author of 6 books and over 200 research papers. His recent research interests focus on the experimental and theoretical studies of the mechanical response of thermoplastic elastomers and hybrid nano-composites with semicrystalline matrices. A.D. Drozdov joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Ben-Gurion University in 2004.

Selected Publications

A.D. Drozdov, J. deC. Christiansen. Effect of high-temperature annealing on the elastoplastic response of isotactic polypropylene in loading-unloading
tests. J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 90, 186-196 (2003).

A.D. Drozdov, Q. Yuan. The viscoelastic and viscoplastic behavior of
low-density polyethylene. Int. J. Solids Structures 40, 2321-2342 (2003).

A.D. Drozdov, S. Agarwal, R.K. Gupta. The effect of temperature on the viscoelastic response of polymer melts. Int. J. Engng. Sci. 43, 304-320 (2005).

M.Y. Gelfer, Ch. Burger, B. Chu, A.D. Drozdov, B.S. Hsiao, M. Si, M. Rafailovich, B.B. Sauer, J.W. Gilman, Relationships between structure and rheology in model nanocomposites of ethylene-vinyl-based copolymers and organoclays. Macromolecules 38, 3765-3775 (2005).

A.D. Drozdov, M. Gottlieb. Constitutive equations for non-affine polymer
networks with slippage of chains. Continuum Mech. Thermodyn. 17, 217-246 (2005).