Alexander Kusenko

Alexander Kusenko
Alex Kusenko in 2011
Born	March 1966 (age 58) Simferopol,Soviet Ukraine,Soviet Union
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	Moscow State University(BSc) Stony Brook University(PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical physics Astrophysics Cosmology
Institutions	UCLA Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe CERN University of Pennsylvania
Doctoral advisor	Robert Shrock
Website	http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~kusenko

Alexander Kusenkois a theoreticalphysicist,astrophysicist,andcosmologistwho is currently a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles(UCLA). In addition, Kusenko holds an appointment of Senior Scientist at theKavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe(IPMU) since February 2008. He has served as a general member of the board ofAspen Center for Physics2004-2019. Kusenko was awarded the status of Fellow of theAmerican Physical Societyin 2008 fororiginal and seminal contributions to particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology.In 2021, Kusenko was awarded a Simons Fellowship in Theoretical Physics.In 2021, he entered a $10,000 wager withDerek Mullerover the possibility of sailing straight downwind faster than the wind, which he later conceded.

External links

• Official website
• Scientific publications of Alexander KusenkoonINSPIRE-HEP
• Alexander Kusenkopublications indexed byGoogle Scholar
• Scientists may have solved mystery of matter’s originby Sarah Kaplan,The Washington Post
• "Higgs Boson Could Explain Matter’s Dominance over Antimatter"byClara Moskowitz,Scientific American