Alexey A. Petrov

Alexey A Petrov
Born1971 (age 54–55)
Alma materPeter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Known forHeavy quark physics
AwardsFellow of the American Physical Society, NSF CAREER Award
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University,
Cornell University,
Wayne State University
Doctoral advisorJohn F Donoghue

Alexey A Petrov is an American physicist known for his theoretical research in the area of physics of heavy quarks. Petrov is a USC Endowed Chair in Physics and the chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of South Carolina. Previously he was a professor of physics at Wayne State University. He is the first particle theorist in the State of Michigan to receive National Science Foundation's CAREER award