"Exciting Results with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope"

Alex Filippenko, an elected member of both the National Academy of
Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, is one of the world’s most highly cited astrophysicists. He studies exploding stars, black holes, galaxies, and the expansion of the Universe. His scientific accomplishments, documented in nearly 1200 research papers, have been recognized with numerous prizes. He was the only person to have been a member of both teams that revealed the expansion of the Universe is accelerating, a discovery that was honored with the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics to the teams’ leaders.

He is a frequent user of the Hubble Space Telescope and JWST. Winner of the highest teaching awards at UC Berkeley and voted the “Best Professor” on campus a record 9 times, in 2006 he was named the Case/Carnegie National Professor of the Year among doctoral institutions. He has produced 5 video courses with The Great Courses, coauthored an award-winning astronomy textbook, and appears in more than 120 TV documentaries.