Brian Beckford

Brian Beckford is currently an assistant research scientist following a two-year President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship (PPFP) at the University of Michigan, where he served as the former chair of the physics department’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee. He works on the KOTO experiment, conducted at the J-PARC facility in Japan, which is designed to measure the rare CP-violating decay of a neutral long-lived kaon into a neutral pion and a neutrino anti-neutrino pair. Prior to his position at Michigan, Dr. Beckford was the American Physical Society (APS) Bridge Program Manager, overseeing that multimillion dollar program to increase the production of African Americans earning PhDs in physics.