Alexander A. Kokhanovsky graduated from the Physical Department of the Belarussian State University, Minsk, Belarus, in 1983. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in optical sciences from the Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus, in 1991. His Ph.D. work was devoted to the development of analytical approximations for the radiative transfer characteristics of atmospheric aerosols and whitecaps. His habilitation work (Main Geophysical Observatory, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2011) was aimed at cloud and snow remote sensing from space. He has worked at several scientific research centers, such as the Institute of Physics (Minsk, Belarus, 1983–2004), Japanese Space Exploration Agency (Tokyo, Japan, 1996–1997), Clausthal Technical University (Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany, 1997–1998), Imperial College (London, UK, 1999–2000), University of Bremen (Bremen, Germany, 2001–2013), VITROCISET/TELESPAZIO Belgium  (Darmstadt, Germany, 2013–2022), and German Research Centre for Geosciences (Potsdam, Germany, 2022-2025).  He is employed by the University of Marburg at present. His research is directed to snow and glacier ice remote sensing from space.

• Developing physics-aware emulators for atmospheric radiative transfer modelling.- The diffraction decomposition order method for the vector radiative transfer equation and implementation using the successive order of scattering algorith.- The studies of the polarized radiative transfer using curvilinear coordinate systems.- Light scattering model for the total internal reflection microscopy of nonspherical and inhomogeneous particles.- Light scattering and radiative transfer characteristics of snow containing impurities.