# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexei-filippenko
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:38:28.219Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/alexei-filippenko"
name: "Alexei Filippenko"
slug: "alexei-filippenko"
description: "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."
tagline: "American astronomer"
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country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1958-07-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump