Alexandre Lazarian

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]

Alexandre Lazarian
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Known for	Research on magnetohydrodynamics
Scientific career
Fields	Astrophysics
Thesis	Statistical Study of Astrophysical Processes  (1994)
Website	www.astro.wisc.edu/~lazarian/

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.

• Draine, B.T.; Lazarian, A. (1999-06-01). "Electric Dipole Radiation from Spinning Dust Grains". The Astrophysical Journal. 508 (1): 157. arXiv:astro-ph/9802239. Bibcode:1998ApJ...508..157D. doi:10.1086/306387. ISSN 0004-637X.

• Lazrian, A; Hoang, Thiem (2007-06-06). "Radiative torques: analytical model and basic properties". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 378 (3): 910. arXiv:0707.0886. Bibcode:2007MNRAS.378..910L. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11817.x. ISSN 0004-637X.

Awards

• 2021 Ronald C. Davidson Award for Plasma Physics ^[5]
• 2012 Fellow of American Physical Society, American Physical Society (2012)^[6]
• 2010 Humbold Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.^[7]