Ideas Festival Emory

Justin Burton obtained his B.S. degree in Physics from the University of Cincinnati in 2001 and his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of California, Irvine in 2006. After postdoctoral positions at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Chicago, he joined the Department of Physics at Emory University in 2013, where he is now an Associate Professor of Physics. His interdisciplinary research program is primarily experimental and covers a wide variety of topics focused on complex and nonequilibrium systems. Current projects include interfacial and nanoscale fluid dynamics, machine learning of many-body dynamics in dusty plasmas, and "soft earth geophysics." He is currently a Gordon and Betty Moore Experimental Physics Investigator and is a past recipient of the National Science Foundation's CAREER Award. He also leads a number of K-12 STEM outreach and education activities in the Atlanta area.