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Sasha Philippov
Associate Professor of Physics
Department: Physics
MS, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Applied Physics & Mathematics (2012)
PhD, Princeton University, Astrophysical Sciences (2017)
I joined Stanford University as an Associate Professor of Physics in June 2026. Before this appointment, I served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to Maryland, I was an Associate Research Scientist at the Flatiron Institute, following a Ph.D. in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University (2017) and an Einstein Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Berkeley.