Brian Leeds DeMarco is a physicist and professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
DeMarco earned a bachelor's degree in physics from the State University of New York at Geneseo in 1996.
As a graduate student, DeMarco worked with Deborah S. Jin to create the first true Fermionic condensate.
The journal Science selected this achievement as one of the top ten scientific discoveries of 1999.
From 2001 to 2003, DeMarco was a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Boulder), working on quantum computing experiments with trapped atomic ions.