Primary Job Title Physicist with ATLAS collaboration Primary Organization 
CERN
Location Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
Website jbbeacham.com X (Twitter) View on X
===== Particle physicist, science communicator, keynote speaker =====
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 hunts 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.
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, SXSW, and the BBC, as well as private events for companies and corporations, including KPMG, Bain, Dept Agency, 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 a filmmaker before becoming a physicist and regularly collaborates with artists. 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.
Beacham is also Communications Ambassador-at-Large for Chelonia Applied Science in Switzerland.
