Space Researchers

Name Field of Study Institution Faculty Areas of Interest Link
Dr. Minhajur Rahaman
Astrophysics The Open University of Israel Astrophysics Research Center of the Open University (ARCO) The origin of coherent radio emissions from pulsars, magnetars, and fast radio bursts (FRBs), imaging of immediate emission from gamma-ray bursts.
Dr. Michael Rabinovich
Astrophysics The Open University of Israel Astrophysics Research Center of the Open University (ARCO) Astrophysical fluid dynamics, hydrodynamic instabilities and bifurcations in oceanic currents, formation of vortices and large-scale structures, relativistic shock waves, gamma-ray bursts, and magnetar giant flares.
Dr. Michael Lozovsky
Astrophysics The Open University of Israel Astrophysics Research Center of the Open University (ARCO) Planetary astrophysics, formation and evolution of planets, internal structure of planets in and beyond the solar system.
Dr. Guy Hetzroni
Astrophysics The Open University of Israel Astrophysics Research Center of the Open University (ARCO) Philosophy of science, theoretical physics, symmetry in modern physics, applications in particle physics and gravity theories.
Dr. Merav Hadad
Astrophysics The Open University of Israel Astrophysics Research Center of the Open University (ARCO) Spacetime thermodynamics, quantum gravity, fundamental aspects of theoretical physics.
Dr. Allona Vazan
Astrophysics The Open University of Israel Astrophysics Research Center of the Open University (ARCO) Theoretical and computational models of planetary interiors, planetary evolution, planet formation, exoplanets, super-Earths, gas giants, the solar system.
Dr. Paz Beniamini
Astrophysics The Open University of Israel Astrophysics Research Center of the Open University (ARCO) Theoretical high-energy astrophysics, gamma-ray bursts, fast radio bursts, magnetars, binary neutron stars, formation channels of heavy elements in the universe.
Prof. Jonathan Granot
Astrophysics The Open University of Israel Astrophysics Research Center of the Open University (ARCO) High-energy astrophysics (especially gamma-ray bursts and magnetars), relativistic hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics, dynamics and structure of jets and shock waves, astrophysical tests of Lorentz invariance violation, gravitational lensing, gravitational waves, high-energy neutrinos, cosmic rays.
Dr. Saleem Zaroubi
Astrophysics The Open University of Israel Astrophysics Research Center of the Open University (ARCO) Cosmology, formation and evolution of large-scale cosmic structures, peculiar velocities of galaxies, redshift galaxy surveys, anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) of the universe, member of the LOFAR-EoR scientific project to study the Epoch of Reionization using the LOFAR radio telescope.
Prof. Orly Gnat
Astronomy The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, The Racah Institute of Physics Interstellar and intergalactic plasma, theoretical interpretation of UV and X-ray observations, numerical and theoretical methods in astronomy.
Dr. Yuval Birnboim
Astrophysics The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, The Racah Institute of Physics Cosmology, galaxy formation, galactic cold streams, gravitational heating of galaxies and galaxy clusters, interstellar medium.
Dr. Assaf Hochman
Earth and Environmental Sciences The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Fredy & Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences Weather and climate forecasting, uncertainty assessment in model predictions, representation of small-scale processes, climate change.
Dr. Nicholas Stone
Astrophysics The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, The Racah Institute of Physics Planetary and stellar evolution.
Dr. Sivan Ginzburg
Astrophysics The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, The Racah Institute of Physics My current focus is on planetary and stellar evolution.
Dr. Ido Barth
Astrophysics The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, The Racah Institute of Physics Basic plasma physics, autoresonance in classical and quantum systems, laser-plasma interaction, Raman and Brillouin amplifiers, magnetic mirrors.
Prof. Sara Eyal
Biology The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Medicine- School of Pharmacy Imaging, nanomedicine, drugs for the central nervous system, biological experiments in microgravity, drug stability in space, "Beresheet 2" experiment.
Dr. Assaf Horesh
Astrophysics The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Black hole research, radio observation analysis.
Prof. Nir J. Shaviv
Earth and Environmental Sciences The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Racah Institute of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences The impact of cosmic rays and solar activity on Earth's climate and the origin of the ice age.
Prof. Re'em Sari
Astrophysics The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Racah Institute of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Study of extreme phenomena like black holes, neutron stars, and gamma-ray bursts.
Prof. Amri Wandel
Earth and Environmental Sciences The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Racah Institute of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Exploring the possibility and likelihood of extraterrestrial life and intelligence, astrobiology, and SETI methods.
Prof. Tsvi Piran
Astrophysics The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, The Institute of Applied Physics Study of gamma-ray bursts, energetic explosions in the universe.
Prof. Roy Yaniv
Earth and Environmental Sciences The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Fredy & Nadine Herrmann Institute of Earth Sciences Space weather, atmospheric electricity, climate change, extreme weather prediction laboratory management.
Prof. Noam Levin
Remote sensing The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of Geography Landscape changes, mapping natural vegetation, light pollution, aeolian geomorphology, human impact on the environment, remote sensing.
Prof. Yonit Hochberg
Astrophysics The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Racah Institute of Physics Elementary particle physics, dark matter research.