James Beacham, physicist

 Go to my Appearances page for public appearances, bookings, and engagements.

James Beacham is a physicist, science storyteller, television and documentary presenter, technologist, futurist, and filmmaker. He has spent the majority of his research career searching for phenomena such as dark matter and quantum black holes at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, also affiliated with institutions such as Duke University and the Max Planck Institute. He is a co-recipient of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics as a core member of the ATLAS experiment, one of the two teams that discovered the Higgs boson particle.

In addition to his research, he speaks and performs around the world at the intersections of science, technology, politics, society, and art; contributes to podcasts, radio shows, TV series, and documentaries; and appears as a commentator in the popular press. Beacham is an experimental filmmaker and visual artist, exhibiting at venues internationally.

Inspire HEP // Academic CV // One-page non-academic résumé [alt]
List of main academic / research publications

Social media:

Here’s the truth: I detest social media. I don’t like the way it makes me feel and the way it burgles time that could be used for other things. That being said, I have placeholder accounts at a few outlets (Twitter: I haven’t used Twitter for a very long time; Bluesky; Instagram, YouTube). I previously used TikTok, then stopped, then posted a few more videos, and now I occasionally use it for spontaneous live streams. It’s mostly a mall now, and, hence, not as fun as it used to be.

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