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Saleem Zaroubi

Saleem Zaroubi is an Israeli astrophysicist who studies the formation and evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe.

born 1963Large-scale structure of the universeResearch on the Epoch of ReionizationThe LOFAR-EoR project

Born: 14 October 1963, Nazareth
Occupation: astronomer, university teacher, astrophysicist
Education: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Saleem Zaroubi was born in 1963 in Nazareth

Zaroubi was born in Nazareth on October 14, 1963. His mother Nahla was a homemaker and his father Nimer was a merchant. He was the eldest of 5 siblings and attended the Baptist school in Nazareth.

He earned a bachelor's degree in physics at the Technion in 1987 and a master's degree there in 1989. He then turned to astrophysical cosmology and completed a doctorate at the Hebrew University in 1994, supervised by Avishai Dekel and Yehuda Hoffman.

He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1994 to 1997, and then a researcher at Hadassah University Hospital. He was also a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany. In 2004 he joined the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, where he became a full professor in 2011.

In 2016 he returned to Israel as a full professor at the Open University, while keeping his post in the Netherlands. In 2021 he was chosen to head its new astrophysics research center. His main work focuses on the Epoch of Reionization, and he is a member of the LOFAR-EoR project. He has published more than 130 scientific papers and writes popular science in English, Arabic and Hebrew.

He is married to Manal, a chemist, and they have a daughter. He lives in Nazareth.