Prof. Hitoshi Murayama is one of the leading personalities in the Linear Collider effort. Since
2013 he is Adjoined-Director of the new LC directorate and supervises the development of the
physics program at a future Linear Collider. Hitoshi Murayama received his Ph.D. in theoretical
physics from University of Tokyo in 1991, where he held a Fellowship of Japan Society for
Promotion of Science. He worked as a Research Associate at Tohoku University from April
1991, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from September
1993. He joined the Physics Department at UC Berkeley in July 1995, became an Associate
Professor in July 1998, and Professor in July 2000. Professor Murayama is also the Director of
the brand new Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) at University
of Tokyo, as of 2012.
Prof. Hitoshi Murayama