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Keisuke Harigaya received his PhD in Physics from the University of Tokyo, Japan. He has held postdoctoral positions at UC Berkeley in California, the Institute for Advanced Study in New Jersey, and CERN, which operates in Switzerland and France. In 2022, he joined the University of Chicago as a faculty member. His research focuses on theoretical particle physics and cosmology, where he studies the mysteries and problems confronting particle physics. He constructs models that explain and predict signals for testing these models. His research interests include the strong CP problem, axion cosmology, dark matter, baryogenesis, grand unification, electroweak symmetry breaking, and inflation. Harigaya's predictive models are tested through direct and indirect detections of dark matter, experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, future colliders, beam-dump experiments, axion searches, and measurements of neutrino parameters. He also engages in observations of the cosmic microwave background and gravitational waves relating to structure formation.
Department of Philosophy