Kovchegov obtained his bachelor's degree from the
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1993 and two years later got his master's from
Columbia University following by Ph.D. in 1998 at the same place. From 1998 to 1999 he worked at the
University of Minnesota as a postdoc and then became theoretical research associate at
Brookhaven National Laboratory. From 2000 to 2004 he served as a research assistant professor at the
University of Washington and then became
Ohio State University's assistant professor in 2004 following by a promotion there to the associate professor in 2008. In August 2001 he was awarded
travel award from the
National Science Foundation and on May 21, 2006 he was awarded
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize. He is also a
fellow at the
American Physical Society. ==Research==