Research Interests

Current research involves various problems related to both the theory of elementary particles and to cosmology: phase transitions in the early universe, inflationary cosmology, large-scale structure formation in the universe, global structure of the universe, cosmological constraints on the properties of elementary particles, theory of tunneling in unusual environments (early universe, particle collisions, ...), quantum theory of black holes and quantum cosmology.

• Theoretical Particle Physics
• Cosmology

Career History

• B.S., Moscow State University
• Ph.D., 1975, Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow
• Professor, Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, 1985-89
• Staff Member of CERN, Switzerland, 1989-90
• Professor of Physics, Stanford University, 1990-present
• Morris Loeb Lecturer, Harvard University, 1987
• Harald Trap Friis Professorship, Stanford University, 2008-present
  

Honors

• Lomonosov Award of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1978
• Oskar Klein medal in physics, 2001
• Dirac medal for the development of inflationary cosmology, 2002
• Peter Gruber Prize for for the development of inflationary cosmology, 2004
• Humboldt Research Award, Germany, 2004
• Robinson Prize for Cosmology, Newcastle University, UK, 2005