Eric Burt

Eric A. Burt (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 1979, and the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, in 1995. His Ph.D. thesis was on the trapping and laser-cooling of single indium ions. From 1995 to 1997, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA, working with Carl Wieman on experiments with Bose–Einstein condensates including dual-species condensates and the demonstration of higher order coherence in condensate atoms. From 1997 to 2001, he worked at the U.S. Naval Observatory developing a laser-cooled cesium fountain atomic clock. From 2001 to the present, he has worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, where he is currently Principal Member of Technical Staff. His work at JPL has included development of both ion and laser-cooled neutral atomic clocks. Dr. Burt is the recipient of the 2015 NASA STMD Groundbreaker award and the 2020 NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal for his work on space atomic clocks. He is a Co-General Chair and Technical Chair for the IEEE Frequency Control Symposium, and Secretary/Treasurer for the APS Topical Group on Precision Measurement and Fundamental Constants.