Dror is a historian of pre-modern Asia, with a particular interest in scientific and intellectual exchanges between the Islamicate world and China. His publications explore the translation and articulation methods of premodern experiences of the natural world, China's participation in the early modern Islamicate book culture, China's reception of Arabo-Persian astronomy and medicine, and the movement of Islamicate knowledge along the Silk Road.
Dror received his BA degree in East Asian Studies and Economics from Tel Aviv University, MA degrees from National Chengchi University in Taipei and Princeton, and his PhD degree in 2016 from Princeton with a dissertation titled: "The Vicissitudes of Late Imperial China's Accommodation of Arabo-Persian Knowledge of the Natural World, 16th–18th Centuries".
Before taking up his position at Cambridge in 2021, Dror held a lectureship in History of Asia pre-1750 at King's College London. Dror was a recipient of the Thomas Arthur Arnold Fund for Excellence in Historical Research fellowship and held postdoctoral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and the Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge. He also served as a Visiting Professor at EHESS in Paris and Marseille.
