Brian Keating

Brian Keating is a cosmologist and inventor of the BICEP (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization). He is a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego; a Fellow of the American Physical Society; a commercially rated pilot; and the principal director of the Simons Observatory. He received the 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for his work on BICEP. He lives with his family in San Diego, California.