Professor Noam Soker is an astrophysicist in the Department of Physics at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He received his BA in 1982 and his PhD in 1986, both from the Technion, then spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia, and three more years at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. From 1992 to 2003 he was at Oranim – Haifa University. From 2003 he has been a faculty member of the Technion's Department of Physics, where he served as dean from 2009 to 2015. Professor Soker is a theoretician whose research areas include hot gas in clusters of galaxies, formation of planetary nebulae, explosion mechanism of massive stars, interaction of binary stellar systems, influence of planets on the evolution of stars, and the general role of jets in astrophysics. 

• Hot Gas in Clusters of Galaxies, Formation of Planetary Nebulae, 

• Explosion Mechanism of Massive Stars,

• Interaction of Binary Stellar Systems, 

• Influence of Planets on the Evolution of Stars, 

• the General Role of Jets in Astrophysics.

Papers                                

Bear, E. & Soker, N., "Using Intermediate-Luminosity Optical Transients (ILOTs) to reveal extended extra-solar Kuiper belt objects", Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 16, 114 (2016)

Shiber, S., Schreier, R., & Soker, N. "Binary interactions with high accretion rates onto main sequence stars", (arXiv:1504.04144) Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 16, 117 (2016)

Soker, N., & Gilkis, A., "Magnetar-powered superluminous supernovae must first be exploded by jets", Astrophysical Journal,  851, 95 (2017)

Bear, E., Grichener, A., & Soker, N., "The imprints of the last jets in core collapse supernovae", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 472, 1770-1777 (2017)

Sabach, E., & Soker, N., "Accounting for planet-shaped planetary nebulae", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 473, 286-294 (2018)

Soker, N., & Gilkis, A., "Explaining iPTF14hls as a common-envelope jets supernova", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, (2018), 475, 1198-1202

Soker, N., "Supernovae Ia in 2017: a long time delay from merger/accretion to explosion",Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, 61(4), 049502,  (2018)

Shiber, S., & Soker, N., "Simulating a binary system that experiences the Grazing Envelope Evolution", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 477, 2584-2598 (2018)