Noam Soker

Noam Soker
BornSeptember 2, 1958
NationalityIsraeli
Alma materTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology
Known forTheory of thermal instability.
Theory of Type Ia Supernovae.
Models for Planetary Nebulae.
Study of Intermediate Luminosity Optical Transients.
Theory of Cooling flows in galaxy clusters.
AwardsYanai Prize
Scientific career
InstitutionsTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorMario Livio, Oded Regev

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.