SO(IFT) Distinguished Prof. Andrei Linde

Prof. Linde is a world reference in Cosmology, with seminal contributions to the modern development of the field. He is one of the fathers of Inflation, of the theory of cosmological phase transitions, and of the idea of an eternal inflationary multiverse. He has received prestigious prizes as the 2002 Dirac Medal, the 2004 Gruber Cosmology Prize for the development of inflationary cosmology and the 2012 Fundamental Physics Prize. In 2014, he was a co-recipient of the Kavli Prize awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters with Alan Guth and Alexei Starobinsky. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.