Andrey V. Chubukov is a theoretical physicist, at the William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, specializing in condensed matter. His speciality is physics of strongly correlated electron systems. [1] Chubukov earned his M.Sci. degree in theoretical physics in 1982 and a Ph.D. in 1985 from Moscow State University. [1]
Andrey V. Chubukov was elected an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 1995; [2] a fellow of the American Physical Society in 2003; [3] received the Humboldt Award for Senior U.S. scientists in 2009; [4] The Leverhulme Award in 2012; [5] the Ulam Scholarship from Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2012, [1] the William I. and Bianca M. Fine Chair in Theoretical Physics, 2013 [1] [6] and the John Bardeen Prize in 2018. [7]
In February 2022, he signed an open letter by Russian scientists condemning the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. [8] On March 20, he and several other researchers initiated another open letter by physicists of Russian descent, also condemning the invasion and calling for an end to it. [9]
Andrey V. Chubukov has written over 300 journal articles and has been cited nearly 19,000 times. His current h-index is 74. [10]
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