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Igor Rogachevskii
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Igor Rogachevskii
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Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences on 22 March 2015, Professor Igor Rogachevskii is a distinguished Israeli physicist and an internationally recognised authority on magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, mean-field dynamo theory, and stably stratified flows. He is Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, where he has developed a sustained research programme in theoretical fluid dynamics and plasma physics. He has also maintained longstanding scientific collaborations with NORDITA in Stockholm, the Finnish Meteorological Institute, and the University of Helsinki, working closely with Professors Nathan Kleeorin and the late Tov Elperin on the theoretical description of turbulent transport in geophysical and astrophysical plasmas. His research has encompassed turbulent thermal diffusion, self-excitation of particle-concentration fluctuations, mean-field theories of the electromotive force in MHD turbulence, and the formation of large-scale magnetic structures in stratified turbulent flows.

Professor Rogachevskii’s research has focused on the generation, evolution, and organisation of magnetic fields in turbulent conducting fluids, with particular emphasis on the shear-current dynamo, chiral magnetohydrodynamics, and the role of turbulence in solar and stellar dynamos. Through analytical and numerical studies, he has demonstrated mechanisms by which nonhelical turbulence can generate large-scale magnetic fields through the shear-current effect and has developed a framework for understanding the successive stages of magnetic-field evolution in chiral magnetohydrodynamics, from small-scale chiral dynamo instability to magnetically driven turbulence and subsequent large-scale field generation. His selected works address the formation of large-scale magnetic structures in turbulent convection, the influence of chemical reactions and phase transitions on turbulent transport, intermittency and anomalous scaling of magnetic fluctuations, the self-excitation of inertial-particle concentration fluctuations, and turbulent thermal diffusion of small inertial particles. Collectively, these contributions reflect a sustained research programme connecting fundamental turbulence theory with the dynamics of magnetic fields in astrophysical plasmas and the broader modelling of geophysical and atmospheric flows.