Dan Meyerstein, Professor of Chemistry at Ariel University and Professor Emeritus at Ben-Gurion University, was born in Jerusalem in 1938. He is married to Professor Naomi Meyerstein, with whom he has four children. Meyerstein earned his M.Sc. in 1961 and Ph.D. in 1965 from the Hebrew University, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Argonne National Laboratory, USA. He joined Ben-Gurion University in 1968, serving until 1998, including as Deputy Rector (1990-1994). In 1995, he moved to Ariel University, where he was President from 1995 to 2012. He also served as President of the Israel Chemical Society (1988-1991). Meyerstein's research focuses on inorganic redox chemistry, environmental chemistry, catalysis, nanocatalysts, and radical processes. His numerous honors include the Meitner-Humboldt Research Prize (1997), Kolthoff Prize (1998), membership in the Academia Europaea (2011), Israel Chemical Society Prize of Excellence (2017), an honorary doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences (2019), ACS Honor Award for Scientific Excellence (2024), and Dionysiou Advanced Oxidation Technologies Award (2024).