Noam Soker

Noam Soker is an Israeli theoretical astrophysicist. He was the chair of the physics department at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology from 2009 to 2015.

Biography and career

Soker was born in Israel in 1958. He spent his childhood in Kibutz Yas'ur. In 1975 he started his undergraduate studies in the department of mathematics and physics at the University of Haifa at Oranim, and completed them in 1982, in the Technion, after a three years break for service in the Israel Defense Forces.

Under the supervision of Mario Livio and Oded Regev, Soker completed his Ph.D. dissertation, about Bondi–Hoyle–Lyttleton accretion in a non-homogeneous gas.

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