Alex Filippenko — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Member of both teams that discovered the accelerating expansion of the Universe, honored with the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
Recipient of the 2006 National Professor of the Year award and the 2004 Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization.
Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Senior Miller Fellow.
Developed and runs the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT) for the Lick Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS).
Coauthored an award-winning astronomy textbook and produced five astronomy video courses with The Great Courses.
Holds a Ph.D. in Astronomy from the California Institute of Technology (1984) and a B.A. in Physics from UC Santa Barbara (1979).

Biography

Alexei Vladimir "Alex" Filippenko is an American astrophysicist and Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been on the faculty since 1986. He earned his 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.