Alexei V. Filippenko

Alexei V. Filippenko is a Distinguished Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professorship in the Physical Sciences. His research focuses on supernovae, black holes, active galaxies, gamma-ray bursts, neutron stars, dark matter, and observational cosmology. He was a pivotal member of the teams that discovered the accelerating expansion of the universe in 1998, contributing to the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to team leaders for discovering dark energy.

He earned his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. Filippenko has authored nearly 1,000 peer-reviewed articles and contributed to numerous conference proceedings and book chapters. He collaborates with faculty and students in the College of Arts and Sciences.

His honors include the Gruber Cosmology Prize, the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, and the Carnegie Foundation/CASE National Professor of the Year award. He is also a member of prestigious academies such as the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.