Jean Alexandre undertook his undergraduate studies and Masters at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France, where he also obtained a teaching qualification (Agregation de Physique). He then went to the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg, France, where was awarded a PhD in 1998. His first postdoc was a Marie Curie position in the European network "Finite temperature phase transitions in Particle Physics", based at the National Technical University of Athens, until 2001. Jean then did a Leverhulme Trust postdoc in the Department of Physics of King's College London, after which he obtained a temporary lectureship, and then his current position.

Research

Non-perturbative effects in Quantum Field Theory (dynamical mass generation, exact functional methods), Lorentz symmetry violation (in Particle Physics and Modified Gravity)