Rate My Professor Levon Pogosian

Levon Pogosian is a Professor of Physics and Department Chair in the Department of Physics at Simon Fraser University. He received a BSc from Yerevan State University, an MSc from West Virginia University, and a PhD from Case Western Reserve University. Prior to joining Simon Fraser University, he held research fellow positions at Imperial College London, Tufts University, and Syracuse University.

Pogosian is a theoretical cosmologist whose work focuses on using cosmological observations to test fundamental physics. His research interests include particle cosmology, the origins of cosmic acceleration, fundamental physics from the cosmic microwave background, topological defects, cosmological tests of gravity and dark energy, primordial magnetic fields and other relics of the early universe, and the Hubble tension. He has received the B.C. Sugar Achievement Award at SFU in 2022 and shared the 2021 Buchalter Cosmology Prize (first prize) with Karsten Jedamzik for research on relieving the Hubble tension with primordial magnetic fields. Pogosian maintains an active research group and contributes to the field through software resources for cosmological modeling and participation in conferences on testing gravity.