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מדעי הטבע, פיזיקה
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מדעי הטבע, פיזיקה

golanmic@post.bgu.ac.il

About

Ph.D. researcher in Physics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, specializing in space plasma physics and collisionless shocks under the supervision of Prof. Michael Gedalin. Research focuses on the structure and dynamics of collisionless shocks using in-situ plasma and magnetic-field observations from multiple spacecraft missions across the heliosphere, including MMS, Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, WIND, THEMIS, and STEREO. Also teaches undergraduate and graduate physics courses in the Department of Physics.

Courses

Physics 2 Workshops(Physicist)
Thermodynamics And Statistical Mechanics (Physicist)
Statistical Mechanics (Master Student Physicist)
Physics 1B (Engineers)
Physics 2B (Engineers)
Physics 3A tutorials (Engineers)

Publications

1. Observations of Persistent Downstream Magnetic Oscillations at the Earth Bow Shock M. Golan, M. Gedalin (2025), Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. doi:10.1029/2025JA034321
2. Electron Heating in Shocks: Statistics and Comparison M. Gedalin, M. Golan, J. Vink, N. Ganushkina, M. Balikhin (2023), Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics. doi:10.1029/2023JA031627
3. Change of Rankine?Hugoniot Relations during Postshock Relaxation of Anisotropic Distributions M. Gedalin, M. Golan, N. V. Pogorelov, V. Roytershteyn (2022), The Astrophysical Journal, 940(1), 21. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac958d