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Aleksandr Logunov gained his PhD in 2015 under the supervision of Viktor Havin at St Petersburg State University. He has held several postdoctoral positions, including at Tel-Aviv University and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He joined Princeton University as an Assistant Professor in 2018 and was appointed as a Full Professor at the University of Geneva in 2021. In 2023, Logunov joined the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has received several prestigious awards including the Clay Research Award in 2017, jointly with Eugenia Malinnikova, for introducing novel geometric-combinatorial methods for the study of elliptic eigenvalue problems. Additionally, he received the Salem Prize in 2018 and the European Mathematical Society Prize in 2020, and was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics – New Horizons in Mathematics in 2021.