Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
===== Particle physicist, data scientist, multimedia artist, science communicator, keynote speaker ===== (Various affiliations over the years, with the Max Planck Institute, Duke University, Ohio State University) Note: I don't use social media very much, so email me for bookings, speaking engagements, and appearances. Dr. James Beacham searches for answers to the biggest open questions of physics using the largest experiment ever, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. He has spent the majority of his career hunting for dark matter, gravitons, quantum black holes, and dark photons as a member of the ATLAS collaboration, one of the teams that discovered the Higgs boson in 2012. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics as a member of the ATLAS Collaboration. In addition to his research, he is a frequent keynote speaker about science, innovation, the future of technology, and art at events and venues around the world, including the American Museum of Natural History, the Royal Institution, the Guggenheim Bilbao, SXSW, and the BBC, as well as in-house events for companies and corporations, including KPMG, Bain, Dept Agency, Boston Consulting Group, and many others. His talk, “How we explore unanswered questions in physics”, was featured on TED.com and has been viewed more than 1.6 million times. He appears in television shows, on podcasts, on radio shows (such as NPR’s Science Friday), and in documentaries (such as 2019’s Chasing Einstein), and has been featured in The New York Times, Wired, and Gizmodo, among others. Beacham trained as an experimental filmmaker before becoming a physicist and is a multimedia artist who has exhibited internationally. In 2015 he launched Ex/Noise/CERN, a project exploring the connections between particle physics and experimental music, film, and art. Beacham specializes in mind-blowing, atypical keynote addresses that explore his research at the edges of human knowledge and how you can think big and change the world, no matter your sector or discipline.
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