Alex Kamenev is a theoretical physicist, at the

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, specializing in condensed matter. Kamenev's current research focuses on theoretical condensed matter physics, disordered systems and glasses, field-theoretical treatment of many-body systems, mesoscopic systems, out of equilibrium systems. Kamenev earned his M.Sci. degree

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, in 1987 from Moscow State University and a Ph.D. in

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, in 1996 from Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

Honors and awards

Kamenev was elected a

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of the

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in 2013; elected an Alfred P.

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from 2004 to 2008; and was awarded the McKnight Land-Grant Professorship for the years of 2005–2007.

Publications

He is the author of a book, ''Field Theory of Non-Equilibrium Systems'', Cambridge University Press (2011) and a number of journal articles. His most cited article, cited 589 times according to

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is Boris L. Altshuler, Yuval Gefen, Alex Kamenev, and Leonid S. Levitov "Quasiparticle Lifetime in a Finite System: A Nonperturbative Approach" published in 2003 in vol. 78 of '' Physical Review Letters'' Condensed Matter Archive
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