Edward O'Brien
Distinguished Scientist, sPHENIX, Physics Department
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Physics Department
Bldg. 510C, Room 2-180
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000
(631) 344-4318
eobrien@bnl.gov
I am a Distinguished Physicist in the Physics Department. I was the Assistant Chair of the BNL Physics Department from 2010-2026, the sPHENIX Project Director from 2014-2023, the PHENIX Ops Director from 2001-2014 and a member of the PHENIX/sPHENIX group for 35 years. I do research in Relativistic Heavy Ion physics and R&D on Nuclear Physics detector technologies.
Expertise | Research | Education | Appointments | Awards
Expertise
Nuclear Physics Experimentalist
Research Activities
sPHENIX Experiment
Education
BA, University of Virginia, 1980
MS in Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1981
PhD in Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1987
Professional Appointments
I have been a member of over 40 DOE/NSF, NSERC-Canada and CERN review committees in addition to numerous committee memberships for BNL, JLab and international conferences.
Awards & Recognition
American Physical Society Fellow 2008
BNL S&T Pinnacle Award 2024
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Physics Department
Bldg. 510C, Room 2-180
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000
(631) 344-4318
eobrien@bnl.gov
