Alexandre Lazarian is an astrophysicist. He is a professor of astronomy at the

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with a joint appointment at the Department of Physics. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society.

Career

Lazarian obtained his Diploma in the theoretical physics group led by

Vitaly Ginzburg Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, ForMemRS (russian: Вита́лий Ла́заревич Ги́нзбург, link=no; 4 October 1916 – 8 November 2009) was a Russian physicist who was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003, together wit ...

. He received his PhD in 1994 from

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under supervision of

Martin Rees Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 23 June 1942) is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He is the fifteenth Astronomer Royal, ...

. After his PhD, Lazarian spent three years as a postdoc in

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and one year as Research Associate at Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. Since 1998, he has been working as a professor at the

. His research involves MHD Theory, Magnetic Reconnection, Dynamo Theory and Interstellar Dust.

Selected publications

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Awards

* 2021 Ronald C. Davidson Award for Plasma Physics * 2012 Fellow of American Physical Society, American Physical Society (2012) * 2010 Humbold Research Award,

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References

External links

A. Lazarian's UW-Madison Page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lazarian, Alexandre Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American astrophysicists Alumni of the University of Cambridge Fellows of the American Physical Society 20th-century physicists Humboldt Research Award recipients 21st-century physicists University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty