15 Facts About Stephon Alexander

Stephon Haigh-Solomon Alexander was born on March 30,1971 and is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, professional jazz musician, and author.

Stephon Alexander grew up in the Bronx, New York City and attended DeWitt Clinton High School where his physics teacher Daniel Kaplan inspired him to study physics.

Stephon Alexander attended Haverford College in Pennsylvania, where he walked onto the track team and studied physics and sociology, with summer internships at Carnegie Mellon University.

Stephon Alexander credits caring mentorship via professors at Haverford for secured him a graduate slot at the Brown University Department of Physics, where he worked first with Leon Cooper, then with Mike Kosterlitz, and finally with Robert Brandenburger, with whom Stephon Alexander completed his doctoral thesis in the field of string cosmology.

Stephon Alexander has held faculty positions at Penn State, Haverford College, and Dartmouth College before joining the faculty at Brown University.

Stephon Alexander was the president of the National Society of Black Physicists.

Stephon Alexander is the executive director of Science and Arts Engagement New York Inc.

Stephon Alexander started his academic career as a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College, London, and later on went to be a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University's SLAC and Institute for Theoretical Physics.

Stephon Alexander is a member of the editorial board of Universe.

In December 2012, Stephon Alexander was the co-author of the paper "Gravitational origin of the weak interaction's chirality".

Around the same time, Stephon Alexander co-authored another paper that focused on the study of electric time in quantum cosmology.

Stephon Alexander has mainly worked to extend Einstein's general theory of relativity curved space-time, taking it to extremes in the connection between the smallest and largest entities in the universe.

Stephon Alexander has worked as the director of Dartmouth College's EE Just STEM Scholars Program, volunteered for public speaking in inner city schools, taught mathematics in prisons and monitors activities relevant to his scholarship.

In February 2013, Stephon Alexander wrote in The New York Times about the need for black academics to set a positive trend for the next generation.

Stephon Alexander is the author of The Jazz of Physics, a book that discusses the link between music and the structure of the universe.