Andrei Linde studied physics at Moscow State University, was a member at CERN and is currently a Professor of Physics at Stanford University. He is an author of more than 250 papers on particle physics, phase transitions and cosmology. As a founding author of the inflationary universe scenario, he has written two books on inflationary cosmology: Inflation and Quantum Cosmology and Particle Physics and Inflationary Cosmology. Among his awards are the Oskar Klein medal in physics, the Dirac medal, the Gruber Cosmology Prize, and the Fundamental Physics Prize for the development of inflationary cosmology. Andrei Linde studied physics at Moscow State University, was a member at CERN and is currently a Professor of Physics at Stanford University. He is an author of more than 250 papers on particle physics, phase transitions and cosmology. As a founding author of the inflationary universe scenario, he has written two books on inflationary cosmology: Inflation and Quantum Cosmology and Particle Physics and Inflationary Cosmology. Among his awards are the Oskar Klein medal in physics, the Dirac medal, the Gruber Cosmology Prize, and the Fundamental Physics Prize for the development of inflationary cosmology.