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Alexandre Lazarian

Alexandre Lazarian

American astrophysicist

Alexandre Lazarian is an astrophysicist. He is a professor of astronomy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison[1] with a joint appointment at the Department of Physics.[2] He is a fellow of the American Physical Society.[3]

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Career

Lazarian obtained his Diploma in the theoretical physics group led by Vitaly Ginzburg. He received his PhD in 1994 from University of Cambridge under supervision of Martin Rees. After his PhD, Lazarian spent three years as a postdoc in Princeton University and one year as Research Associate at Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. Since 1998, he has been working as a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[4] His research involves MHD Theory, Magnetic Reconnection, Dynamo Theory and Interstellar Dust.[1]

Selected publications

  • Lazrian, A; Vishniac, E. (1999-06-01). "Reconnection in a Weakly Stochastic Field". The Astrophysical Journal. 517 (1): 700. arXiv:astro-ph/9811037. Bibcode:1999ApJ...517..700L. doi:10.1086/307233. ISSN 0004-637X.

Awards

References

  1. [1]
    "Lazarian, Alex - UW-Madison Astronomy". www.astro.wisc.edu. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  2. [2]
    "Lazarian, Alexandre". Department of Physics. 748. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  3. [3]
    Barncard, Chris (2012-12-05). "American Physical Society names five UW faculty fellows".
  4. [4]
    "UW-Madison, Department of Astronomy". 2021-10-06.
  5. [5]
    "Ronald C. Davidson Award". aip.org. Retrieved 2 November 2021.
  6. [6]
    "APS Fellow Archive". aps.org. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  7. [7]
    "Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship – UW-Madison Members". 2021-10-06.
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