Alex Schekochihin

Professor Schekochihin obtained a BSc in Applied Mathematics and Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1995 and a PhD in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University in 2001. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA, Imperial College and Cambridge, then a Lecturer at Imperial, before moving to Oxford in 2008. He is now Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics and Tutor in Physics at Merton College. His research interests cover a broad spectrum of nonlinear dynamics of astrophysical and laboratory plasmas, ranging from the origin of cosmic magnetism, to the structure of turbulence in the solar wind, to the confinement of plasmas in fusion devices (a topic on which he has collaborated closely with researchers at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority's Culham Laboratory). Professor Schekochihin became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2012 and has been Editor of the Journal of Plasma Physics since 2013; in 2019, he received the John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics from the APS and the Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Medal for distinguished contributions to plasma, solar or space physics from the UK Institute of Physics.