实验物理学家，出生于莫斯科，在莫斯科物理技术学院攻读物理学本科。1993年成为纽约哥伦比亚大学物理学研究生，毕业论文研究方向是原子气体中的相干瞬态光学，由斯文·R·哈特曼博士指导。1998 年完成博士学位后，在加州大学伯克利分校物理系任博士后研究员，随后在德国康斯坦茨大学工作，先后作为亚历山大·冯·洪堡博士后研究员和量子光学信息技术研究小组组长。2004 年成为卡尔加里大学物理与天文学系教授， 2018年秋季起担任牛津大学教授。亚历山大曾任加拿大研究主席、美国物理学会终身会员、光学学会会员，并获得过许多奖项，其中最著名的是国际量子通信奖、加拿大总理表扬信和德国科学基金会艾米·诺特研究奖。研究成果被加拿大广播公司（CBC）、美国全国广播公司（NBC）、《连线》（Wired）、《新科学家》（New Scientist）、《麻省理工学院技术评论》（MIT Technology Review）、《卫报》（the Guardian）、塔斯社（TASS）甚至《每日邮报》（Daily Mail）等众多媒体报道。

Alexander Lvovsky is an experimental physicist. He was born and raised in Moscow and did his undergraduate in Physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. In 1993, he became a graduate student in Physics at Columbia University in New York City. His thesis research, conducted under the supervision of Dr. Sven R. Hartmann, was in the field of coherent optical transients in atomic gases. After completing his Ph. D. in 1998, he spent a year at the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physics, and then five years at Universität Konstanz in Germany, first as an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow, then as a research group leader in quantum-optical information technology. In 2004 he became Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary, and from autumn 2018, a professor at the University of Oxford. Alexander is a past Canada Research Chair, a lifetime member of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the Optical Society and a winner of many awards – most notably the International Quantum Communications award, commendation letter from the Prime Minister of Canada and the Emmy Noether research award of the German Science Foundation. His work has been featured by CBC, NBC, Wired, New Scientist, MIT Technology Review, the Guardian, TASS and even Daily Mail.