A. Kozlov

In 1996 Alexandre won the Melbourne University postgraduate scholarship and joined the Photonuclear group of professor Maxwell Thompson at School of Physics. After a short visit to M.I.T. in 1996 he received invitation from professor William Bertozzi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and professor Thomas Walcher ( Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz) to join electron scattering experiments at the Mainz Microtron accelerator. After graduation in 2000, Alexandre moved to North America where participated in several experiments at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. In 2003 Alexandre relocated to Japan where he worked on the KamLAND neutrino experiment at the Kamioka underground laboratory. In 2012 he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo. Together with other scientists he was awarded the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for the fundamental discovery and exploration of neutrino oscillations.