Noga Alon

Noga Alon was born in 1956 in Haifa

Alon was born in Haifa in 1956 and grew up there. His father was Dror Alon, and his mother was the writer and translator Hemda Alon. He attended the Hebrew Reali School, graduating in 1974, and won first place in mathematics competitions of the Weizmann Institute and the Technion.

He joined the IDF in 1974 and served a year in the Armored Corps. He then studied through the academic reserve and returned as an officer in the Intelligence Corps, where his team won the Israel Defense Prize.

He earned a bachelor's degree from the Technion in 1979 with highest honors and a master's degree in mathematics from Tel Aviv University in 1980. In 1983 he received his PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under Micha Perles.

After postdoctoral research at MIT, he joined Tel Aviv University in 1985 and became a full professor in 1988. He headed its School of Mathematical Sciences from 1999 to 2001 and published over 500 papers, some under the pseudonym A. Nilli.

In 2018 he retired as professor emeritus at Tel Aviv and moved to Princeton University. He edited the journal Random Structures and Algorithms from 2008 through 2023.