Mikhail Yevgenyevich Shaposhnikov (born in 1956 in Sochi, Russia) is a Soviet-born Swiss theoretical physicist and a professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

[2] Mikhail Shaposhnikov graduated in physics from Moscow State University in 1979 and obtained a PhD from the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1982 after defending his thesis on the topic of baryon asymmetry of the universe in the frame of grand unified theories.

[3] Together with Valery Rubakov, Mikhail Shaposhnikov was recognized for being the first to propose novel models of space-time and gravity using brane cosmology.

[4][5] In 1985, in a seminal work with Vadim Kuzmin and Valery Rubakov, he clarified the conditions under which an explanation of the baryon number violation in the Standard Model is possible.

[7] Mikhail Shaposhnikov is a recipient of the Andrei Sakharov gold medal awarded by the Russian Academy of Sciences.