David Saltzberg

David Saltzberg, Ph.D. is an astroparticle physicist and the science consultant for the CBS television situation-comedy, The Big Bang Theory, checking scripts and meeting with the producers, writers, actors, set decorators, prop masters, costume designers etc. to help ensure scientific accuracy. He also writes a blog The Big Blog Theory that explains the science behind each episode.

Career
David Saltzberg is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He received a bachelor's degree in Physics in 1989 from Princeton University where he worked in the Princeton Cyclotron. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1994, where he measured the mass of the W boson at the Fermilab Tevatron and CDF detector. In 1995-97, he performed post-graduate work at CERN on the CHORUS experiment looking for ν μ to ν τ oscillations with a 1-ton photographic emulsion target. Saltzberg's research interests are high energy particle physics and high-energy neutrino astronomy, using radio detection techniques. His group looks for signs of supersymmetry and measures exotic properties of the top quark. He is currently working on the ANITA project, which recently completed three successful scientific balloon flights in Antarctica, and collaborating with the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.