Alexander Lvovsky is an experimental
physicist. He was born and raised in Moscow and did his
undergraduate in Physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and
Technology. In 1993, he became a graduate student in Physics at
Columbia University in New York City. His thesis research, conducted
under the supervision of Dr. Sven R. Hartmann, was in the field of
coherent optical transients in atomic gases. After completing his
PhD. in 1998, he spent a year at the University of California,
Berkeley as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physics, and
then five years at Universitat Konstanz in Germany, first as an
Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow, then as a research group
leader in Quantum-Optical Information Technology. In 2004, he became
a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the
University of Calgary, and from Autumn 2018, a professor at the
University of Oxford. Alexander is a past Canada Research Chair, a
lifetime member of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the
Optical Society and a winner of many awards - most notably the
International Quantum Communications award, commendation letter from
the Prime Minister of Canada and the Emmy Noether research award of
the German Science Foundation. His work has been featured by CBC,
NBC, Wired, New Scientist, MIT Technology Review, the Guardian, TASS
and even Daily Mail.
