Alex Filippenko

Alex Filippenko
Born	Alexei Vladimir Filippenko (1958-07-25) July 25, 1958 (age 66) Oakland, California, U.S.
Education	University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A. 1979) California Institute of Technology (Ph.D. 1984)
Known for	Studies of supernovae, active galaxies, black holes, accelerating expansion of the Universe
Spouse	Noelle Filippenko
Children	4
Awards	Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy Guggenheim Fellowship Gruber Prize in Cosmology Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Carnegie/CASE National Professor of the Year Richard H. Emmons Award Robert M. Petrie Prize Richtmyer Memorial Award Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization
Scientific career
Fields	Astrophysics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	Physical conditions in low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (1984)
Doctoral advisor	Wallace L. W. Sargent
Other academic advisors	Stanton J. Peale[1] Hyron Spinrad

Alexei Vladimir "Alex" Filippenko (/fɪlɪˈpɛnkoʊ/; born July 25, 1958) is an American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. Filippenko graduated from Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California. He received a 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. He was a postdoctoral Miller Fellow at Berkeley from 1984 to 1986 and was appointed to Berkeley's faculty in 1986. In 1996 and 2005, he was a Miller Research Professor, and he is currently a Senior Miller Fellow. His research focuses on supernovae and active galaxies at optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared wavelengths, as well as on black holes, gamma-ray bursts, and the expansion of the Universe.