Alexey A Petrov is an American

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...

known for his theoretical research in the area of physics of heavy quarks. Alexey A Petrov is a USC Endowed Chair in Physics and the Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of South Carolina. Previously he was a Professor of Physics at

Wayne State University Wayne State University (WSU) is a public research university in Detroit, Michigan. It is Michigan's third-largest university. Founded in 1868, Wayne State consists of 13 schools and colleges offering approximately 350 programs to nearly 25,000 ...

. He is the first particle theorist in the State of

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to receive

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's CAREER award

Career

Alexey Petrov graduated from the

Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, abbreviated as SPbPU (also, formerly "Saint Petersburg State Technical University", abbreviated as SPbSTU), is a Russian technical university located in Saint Petersburg. Other former names i ...

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, Russia, with a diploma in physics in 1994. In 1997, he graduated from the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...

, with a

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in theoretical physics under the direction of John F. Donoghue. He went on to do postdoctoral research at

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

(1997–2000), and

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

(2000–2001) before joining the faculty of

in 2001. He moved to the University of South Carolina as a USC Endowed Chair in Physics and the Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy in 2022.

Honors

Petrov received

CAREER Award in 2005. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2015 “for contributions to heavy flavor physics, in particular studies of charm quarks and contributions to indirect searches for physics beyond the Standard Model.” He was among the first professors to be awarded a Comenius Guest Professorship (2015–16) at the

University of Siegen The University of Siegen (german: Universität Siegen) is a public research university located in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia and is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, a society of Germany's leading research universities. The Univers ...

Siegen Siegen () is a city in Germany, in the south Westphalian part of North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly sho ...

, Germany.

Books

*2016. ‘’Effective Field Theories’’ (with A. Blechman). Singapore: World Scientific. *2021. ‘’Indirect Searches for New Physics’’. Boca Raton: CRC Press.

External links

Alexey A Petrov's Home Page

Symmetry Factor (blog)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Petrov, Alexey A University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Natural Sciences alumni 21st-century American physicists Wayne State University faculty Living people 1971 births Fellows of the American Physical Society