Dr. Alexander Belyaev

Biography

Professor Alexander Belyaev is a theoretical physicist specializing in beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics, collider phenomenology, and dark matter studies. He has been a faculty member at the University of Southampton since 2007. Belyaev graduated from Moscow State University in 1993 and obtained his PhD in 1996. He began his research career at the Skobeltsyn Nuclear Physics Institute and became a visiting researcher in the Fermilab DØ collaboration. Over the years, he has held research positions at leading institutions including the Instituto de Física Teórica (UNESP), CERN’s Theory Division, Florida State University, and Michigan State University. His research mainly focuses on the theory and phenomenology of elementary particle physics and cosmology, studying the Standard Model, supersymmetry, extra dimensions, technicolor, and connections to dark matter. He has closely collaborated with experimental teams, being a member of the DØ collaboration at Fermilab from 1996 to 2004 and a full member of the CMS collaboration at CERN since 2007. Belyaev is also known for developing the CalcHEP package, a computational tool that automates the transition from Lagrangians to cross-sections. In 2011, he pioneered the High Energy Physics Model Database (HEPMDB), which provides a framework for collecting and exploring BSM models, serving as a bridge between theoretical model building and experimental verification. He has led multiple research projects in BSM physics and received substantial funding, publishing extensively in high-impact journals. Additionally, he co-authored the textbook "Basics of Nuclear and Particle Physics" published by Springer, and continues to advance computational techniques in high-energy physics.

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