Alex Filippenko
Alexei Vladimir "
Alex"
Filippenko (; born July 25, 1958) is an American
astrophysicist and
professor of
astronomy at the
University of California, Berkeley. Filippenko graduated from
Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California. He received a
Bachelor of Arts in
physics from the
University of California, Santa Barbara in 1979 and a
Ph.D. in
astronomy from the
California Institute of Technology in 1984, where he was a
Hertz Foundation Fellow. He was a postdoctoral
Miller Fellow at
Berkeley from 1984 to 1986 and was appointed to Berkeley's faculty in 1986. In 1996 and 2005, he was a Miller Research Professor, and he is currently a Senior Miller Fellow. His research focuses on
supernovae and
active galaxies at
optical,
ultraviolet, and
near-infrared wavelengths, as well as on black holes, gamma-ray bursts, and the expansion of the Universe.
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