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Alexei Vladimir "Alex" Filippenko is an American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Filippenko graduated from Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California.
He received a Bachelor of Arts in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1979 and a Ph.
D.
in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology in 1984, where he was a Hertz Foundation Fellow.
He was a postdoctoral Miller Fellow at Berkeley from 1984 to 1986 and was appointed to Berkeley's faculty in 1986.
In 1996 and 2005, he was a Miller Research Professor, and he is currently a Senior Miller Fellow.
His research focuses on supernovae and active galaxies at optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared wavelengths, as well as on black holes, gamma-ray bursts, and the expansion of the Universe.

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