Alexander Kvashnin was born in 1989 in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. 

He received a master's degree in applied mathematics and physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 2012 and became a Ph.D. student at the same university. 

He also worked as a visiting researcher at Rice University in the USA in 2011 and 2013. 

Since 2015, he has been working as a researcher at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology. 

In 2016, Alexander received his Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from the National University of Science and Technology MISIS.

 In 2021, he successfully defended his habilitation thesis and obtained the habilitation degree in condensed matter physics. 

Since 2023, Alexander has held the position of full professor at Skoltech and has led the Industry-Oriented Computational Discovery Lab. 

In 2023 Alexander was the leader of the Megagrant Laboratory "Computational Synthesis of Chemical Compounds" at the Institute of Solution Chemistry RAS. 

In 2023, Alexander was listed among the top 2% of the world's most cited researchers according to a single-year impact compiled by Elsevier. 

Alexander has published more than 90 research papers in high-impact journals with more than 5000 citations.