Jonathan Granot

Faculty

My research focuses on high-energy astrophysics – a branch of astrophysics that studies some of the most extreme physical conditions in nature, such as huge densities, magnetic fields and particle energies, strong gravity, and relativistic bulk motions. This, naturally, includes systems containing black holes and/or neutron stars, which are also prime sources of high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos, as well as gravitational waves (e.g. from merging black holes and/or neutron stars). In particular, I study gamma-ray bursts, magnetars, relativistic fluid dynamics and MHD, pulsar wind nebulae, dynamics and structure of relativistic jets, polarization, structure of blast waves, high energy neutrinos, astrophysical tests of Lorentz invariance and gravitational lensing.