Eguna: 2023/11/14
Ordua: 11:40
Lekua: 1.A.1 gela

ABSTRACT: In this colloquium, I will discuss the progress in theoretical and experimental cosmology during the last 40 years.

SHORT BIO 

Prof. Mukhanov studied at the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute, Russia, graduating with a Ph.D. in Physics (1982). He then joined the Institute for Nuclear Research in Moscow where he served as a Research Scientist (1982-1992). After the fall of the Soviet Union, Prof. Mukhanov joined ETH Zurich (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Switzerland, as a lecturer (1992-1997). In 1997, Prof. Mukhanov was appointed Full Professor of Physics and Head of the Astroparticle Division at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, positions he holds to this day. 

Prof. Mukhanov serves as the Scientific Director of the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP). During his career he has been distinguished with numerous awards and prizes. Among them it is worth mentioning the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2015) in Basic Sciences (together with Stephen Hawking).

Other awards during his career include the Gold Medal of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, (1988), the Oskar Klein Medal, Stockholm University, Sweden (2006), the Tomalla prize, Switzerland (2009), the Blaise Pascal Chair, ENS, Paris, France (2011), the Amaldi Medal (2012), the Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2013), the Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling-Preis, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany (2014), the Max Planck Medal (2015), the Dirac Medal, (ICTP) (2019).