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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Alexandre Lazarian
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forResearch on magnetohydrodynamics
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
Thesis Statistical Study of Astrophysical Processes  (1994)
Websitewww.astro.wisc.edu/~lazarian/
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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.

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