Avishai Dekel
Avishai Dekel (born 1951) is a professor of physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, holding the Andre Aisenstadt Chair of Theoretical Physics. He is performing research in astrophysics and cosmology. Prof. Dekel got his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 1980, and was a research fellow at Caltech and an assistant professor at Yale University before joining the faculty of the Hebrew University in 1986. He served as the Head of The Racah Institute of Physics (1997–2001) and is the Dean of the Authority for the Community and Youth at the Hebrew University since 2005. He is the President of the Israel Physical Society (2008–11). Prof. Dekel is a frequent visitor to the University of California, Santa Cruz. Among other professional honors, he has been awarded a Miller professorship at UC Berkeley and a Blaise Pascal International Chair of Research by the École Normale Supérieure in Paris (2004–06).
Prof. Dekel is known for his contributions to research in cosmology, especially the study of the formation of galaxies and large-scale structure in the dark matter-dark energy dominated Universe.[1][2] He is most well known for the understanding of dwarf galaxies and supernova feedback (1986, 2003), for the analysis of large-scale cosmic flows (1989–1997), for the studies of the structure of dark-matter galactic halos (2000–2003), for his contributions to central issues in the theory of galaxy formation (2003–2009), and for his recent discoveries concerning the formation of galaxies in the early universe by cold streams.[3]
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- ^ Alan P. Lightman (1993), Ancient Light: Our Changing View of the Universe, Harvard University Press, p. 134, ISBN 9780674033634
- ^ M. S. Longair (2006), The cosmic century: a history of astrophysics and cosmology, Cambridge University Press, p. 360, ISBN 9780521474368
- ^ Eric Hand (1 April 2009), "Early galaxies surprise with size", Nature News, doi:10.1038/news.2009.225
