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Hitoshi Murayama is a well-known theoretical particle physicist who works broadly in astrophysics, cosmology, and condensed matter physics. He has been a professor at the University of California, Berkeley since 2000, where he is also the founding director of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) at the University of Tokyo, serving from 2007 to 2018. Born in Japan and having lived in Germany for four years, Murayama has served on various advisory committees worldwide. In October 2014, he was invited to speak at the United Nations headquarters in New York about how science unites people and promotes peace. He has received the Yukawa Commemoration Prize and is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe • Tokyo, Japan
Director of the Kavli Institute, overseeing research in theoretical physics.
University of California, Berkeley • Berkeley, CA
Teaching and researching particle physics and its implications in other fields.
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