Mikhail E. Shaposhnikov

Mikhail Yevgenyevich Shaposhnikov (born in 1956 in Sochi, Russia) is a Soviet-born Swiss theoretical physicist and a professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He is active in the fields of cosmology and particle physics.

Career Mikhail Shaposhnikov graduated in physics from Moscow State University in 1979 and obtained a PhD from the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1982 after defending his thesis on the topic of baryon asymmetry of the universe in the frame of grand unified theories.

Research Together with Valery Rubakov, Mikhail Shaposhnikov was recognized for being the first to propose novel models of space-time and gravity using brane cosmology. In 1985, in a seminal work with Vadim Kuzmin and Valery Rubakov, he clarified the conditions under which an explanation of the baryon number violation in the Standard Model is possible.

Mikhail Shaposhnikov leads the laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology (LPPC) at the Institute of Physics of the School of Basic Sciences at EPFL.

Distinctions Mikhail Shaposhnikov is a recipient of the Andrei Sakharov gold medal awarded by the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2005, he was awarded with the Markov prize for fundamental physics. In 2008, he received the Humboldt research prize awarded by the Heidelberg University.

Shaposhnikov received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council in 2015 for the research project 'From Fermi to Planck : a bottom up approach'.

Political positions In February-March 2022, he signed two open letters by Russian scientists condemning the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Selected publications