Alex Mogilner is an American professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Department of Biology at New York University.
He received his doctorate in physics in 1990 at the Ural Division of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in his hometown of Ekaterinburg.
After two years of research at the University of Manitoba, he returned to graduate school at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and received his Ph.D in applied mathematics, a program that combined math and biology.
[citation needed] One of Mogilner's research topics is the mitotic spindle and how it is assembled.
Mogilner hypothesized that the chromosomes were surrounded by proteins that directed the microtubules toward them.