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Alexey Petrov is a Professor and Endowed Chair serving as Department Chair of Physics and Astronomy at the University of South Carolina's McCausland College of Arts and Sciences. He joined USC in 2022 after a 21-year tenure at Wayne State University (WSU), where he held professorial roles since 2001 following postdoctoral work at Cornell University and Johns Hopkins University. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1997.
His research focuses on effective field theories applied to electroweak interactions, QCD, CP-violation, and heavy flavor physics. He authored textbooks including Effective Field Theories (2016) and Indirect Searches for New Physics (2021), and organized conferences. His work is funded by NSF and DOE grants.
Notable awards include the 2005 NSF CAREER Award, 2015 APS Fellow distinction, and WSU's Charles H. Gershenson Distinguished Faculty Fellowship (2018). He advises the WSU Society of Physics Students and contributes to Symmetry factor blog and The Conversation platform. He serves on the editorial board of Advances in High Energy Physics.
