Alexandre Lazarian is an astrophysicist. He is a professor of astronomy at the

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with a joint appointment at the Department of Physics. He is a fellow of the

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Career

Lazarian obtained his Diploma in the theoretical physics group led by

Vitaly Ginzburg Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg ForMemRS (; – 8 November 2009) was a Russian physicist who was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003, together with Alexei Abrikosov and Anthony Leggett for their "pioneering contributions to the theory ...

. He received his PhD in 1994 from

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under supervision of

Martin Rees Martin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow,