Justus A. Brevik

Justus A. Brevik (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 2012, both in physics. He received the Ph.D. degree for his work on the measurement of cosmic microwave background polarization using the BICEP2 telescope. He joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Boulder, CO, USA, as a National Research Council Fellow in 2012, where he worked on transition edge sensor detectors and the microwave superconducting quantum interference device multiplexer for astrophysics applications. In 2014, he joined a startup company attempting to launch thermal rockets into space using beamed microwave power generated by gyrotrons. He returned to NIST-Boulder in 2015 to work in the Quantum Voltage Project, where he is developing a Josephson arbitrary waveform synthesizer capable of creating quantum-accurate waveforms in the gigahertz regime for telecommunications and quantum information applications. Dr. Brevik was thew recipient of the IEEE Council on Superconductivity Van Duzer Prize in 2019.