Viatcheslav Mukhanov

Viatcheslav F. Mukhanov (Russian Вячеслав Фёдорович Муханов, Vyacheslav Fedorovich Muchanow; born October 2, 1956 in Kanash, Chuvashia ) is a Russian astrophysicist and cosmologist.

Mukhanov studied at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, where he earned his doctorate under Vitaly Ginsburg 1982. After that, he was in Moscow at the Lebedev Institute. As a post - graduate student, he went to Western Europe, among other things, to Zurich, and in the United States. Mukhanov is a professor at Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics at the University of Munich.

Mukhanov was in the early 1980s, a pioneer of the theory of inflation, by calculating the first quantum fluctuations of Inflaton field, which are the origins of the later structure formation in the universe. His predictions have been confirmed by observations of inhomogeneities in the Cosmic Microwave Background ( CMB).

In 2006 he received the Oskar Klein medal. In 2009 he was awarded the Swiss Tomalla Prize and the 2012 Amaldi Medal. For 2013, the Gruber Prize for Cosmology was awarded jointly with Alexei Starobinsky.

In 2011 he received a Blaise Pascal visiting professor in France. Mukhanov was awarded the Gruber Prize for Cosmology in 2013.

He is the editor of the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics ( JCAP, an electronic journal).

Writings

• Physical foundations of cosmology, Cambridge University Press 2005
• With Sergei Winizki Introduction to Quantum Effects in Gravity, Cambridge University Press, 2007
• HA Feldman, RH Brandenberger Theory of Cosmological Perturbations, Physics Reports, 1992