Or Graur

I am a Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth, as well as a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History.

Contact: or.graur@port.ac.uk … More About

To date, I have published more than twenty short stories in Hebrew in a variety of Israeli literary journals and several anthologies. In 2009, I published my first collection of stories, The War Painter (shown here on the left). I am currently working on a new collection of stories, in English, as well as a … More Books

I study different types of transients – astrophysical phenomena that change on human timescales. I mostly work on supernovae – the explosions of stars – and try to figure out which stars explode as different types of supernovae. To do so, I use images and spectra of the supernovae and their host galaxies, taken with … More Research