Alexei Starobinsky

Alexei Starobinsky is a Soviet and Russian astrophysicist and cosmologist. Starobinsky is a former student of Yakov Zeldovich at Moscow State University from where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1972. In 1975, he earned a PhD degree from the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and is now a senior scientist at the Institute. He was a pioneer in the theory of cosmic inflation. He received the Kavli Prize in Astrophysics "for pioneering the theory of cosmic inflation", together with Alan Guth and Andrei Linde in 2014.