Avishai Dekel, Professor of Physics
Andre Aisenstadt Chair of Theoretical Physics
Head of the Authority for the Community and Youth
President of the Israel Physical Society

Coordinates:

Office: Kaplun 107, Givat Ram (map), Cell: +972-(0)54-8820668, Office: +972-(0)2-6584100, Fax: +972-(0)2-5611519
Home: Tel: +972-(0)3-6743974, Fax: +972-(0)3-5744153
Mail: Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
E-mail:dekel at phys.huji.ac.il

Main Research Interests:

Astrophysics; cosmology
Formation, evolution and dynamics of galaxies; structure and sub-structure of dark-matter halos; shock heating versus cold flows in disk formation; supernova and other feedback processes; dwarf galaxies; the origin of angular momentum in galaxies; mergers and galaxies at high redshift; black holes in galactic centers
Analytic and semi-analytic modeling of galaxy formation; cosmological numerical simulations: N-body and hydrodynamical
The Fundamental Cosmological Parameters: is the universe open or closed?
Formation and Dynamics of Large-Scale Structure; Cosmic Flows
Gravitational Lensing

Cosmology Group

Research Projects for Students

Postdoctoral Fellowships in Galaxy Formation and Cosmology

Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Astrophysics Group

Publications

Short CV in English and Short CV in Hebrew

Popular Lectures