Dr. Lev Khvatskin is the Chair of the Center for Reliability and Risk Management and Senior Lecturer of the Industrial Engineering and Management Department, SCE - Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer Sheva, Israel. He has obtained his M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Railway Transport, Moscow, Russia and PhD degree in Reliability Engineering and Inventory Control from Railway Research Institute, Moscow, Russia. He has more than 30 years of academic experience and teaching at universities in Israel. He has specialized in reliability of power and refrigeration equipment, scheduled and unscheduled repair and service, refrigeration, heating and air-conditioning systems. He is the author and a co-author of more than 30 research papers, 2 books, and several book's chapters in the fields of reliability of refrigeration, heating and air-conditioning systems.
