Education
In 1975, he earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and is now a senior scientist at the Institute.
Astronomer astrophysicist physicist
In 1975, he earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and is now a senior scientist at the Institute.
Starobinsky is a former student of Yakov Zeldovich at Moscow State University from where he earned a bachelor"s degree in 1972. From 1990 to 1997, he headed the department of gravitation and cosmology and, from 1999 to 2003, he was the Institute"s deputy director In the 1970s, Starobinsky worked on the theory of particle creation in the early universe and particle generation and radiation from rotating black holes (1973/74), a precursor of the theory of Hawking radiation.
He was also, in 1979, a pioneer in the theory of cosmic inflation in the Russian scientific literature.
The phase of inflation postulates that the universe size grew quadrillion times faster that the speed of light. In the American and western European physics literature, Alan Guth was considered a pioneer of the theory during the same time period.
Starobinsky was a visiting scientist in 1991 at the École Normale Superieure. In 2006, at the Institut Henri Poincaré.
In 1994 and 2007, at the Yukawa Institute of the University of Kyoto.
And, in 2000/2001, at the Research Center for the Early Universe at the University of Tokyo. Since 1991, he has been a co-editor of the JETP Letters. Since 1992, the International Journal of Modern Physics Doctorate.
From 1993 to 1996, Classical and Quantum Gravity.
And, from 1989 to 1997, General Relativity and Gravitation.
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Starobinsky is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.