Alex Brown is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University and a member of the nuclear theory group at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. His research focuses on theoretical models for nuclear structure and their applications to experiments with rare isotope beams, nuclear astrophysics, and fundamental symmetries in the nucleus. He received his Ph.D. in 1974 from Stony Brook University. In 2008 he was recognized as an Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society.