Alexander V. Balatsky

Alexander V. Balatsky
Balatsky
Born1961
Alma materLandau Institute
AwardsAAAS Fellow, APS Fellow, Los Alamos Fellow
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, Condensed Matter Theory
InstitutionsLos Alamos National Laboratory, NORDITA, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorM. Feigelman, V.P. Mineev and G.E. Volovik at Landau Institute, David Pines at UIUC

Alexander V. Balatsky (born 19 October 1961) is a USSR-born American physicist. He is the professor of theoretical physics at NORDITA and University of Connecticut. He served as the founding director of the Institute for Materials Science (IMS) at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2014–2017.