Brad Plaster
B.S. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999)
Ph.D. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2003)
Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics, California Institute of Technology (2003-2008)
- Assistant Professor, 2007-2012
- Associate Professor, 2012-2018
- Professor, 2018-
- Associate Chair of Physics and Astronomy, 2017-2021
- Chair of Physics and Astronomy, 2021-
My research program is currently focused on searches for the neutron electric dipole moment (EDM) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). A discovery of the Time-Reversal-Symmetry-violating neutron EDM would have profound implications for our understanding of the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the universe and physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. I have also previously worked in neutron beta decay, probing parameters of the weak interaction, and in electron scattering, probing the electromagnetic structure of the neutron.
I am currently serving as the Level-1 Deputy Project Manager for the neutron EDM experiment at ORNL.
Please also see my personal webpage here.