Robert Cousins is a Professor of Physics at UCLA, where he has been on the faculty since 1981. He earned his A.B from Princeton in 1976, and completed his Stanford Ph.D. under Mel Schwartz in 1981 on the pi-mu atom experiment (E533) at Fermilab. He then worked with Peter Schlein on forward charmed baryon production (R608) at the CERN ISR. He was then one of the leaders (including Stan Wojcicki and Bill Molzon) of a search for rare kaon decays (E791) at BNL. After a sabbatical year at Harvard working with the CDF group, he was co-spokesman (with Alan Schwartz) of a search for the H dibaryon (E888) at BNL. Subsequently he worked on NOMAD, a search for neutrino oscillations at CERN. Since 2000, his main research activities have been devoted to the CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.
Cousins has served on the BNL High Energy and Nuclear Physics Program Advisory Committee and on the Fermilab Physics Advisory Committee. Earlier in his career he received a Sloan fellowship and a DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.