Yasunori Nomura received his Ph.D. from University of Tokyo in 2000, where he held a fellowship of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He was a Miller Research Fellow at University of California, Berkeley from 2000 to 2002, and an Associate Scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory from 2002 to 2003. He joined the Berkeley physics faculty in July 2003. He was awarded DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator Award in 2004, Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2005, and Hellman Family Faculty Fund Award in 2005.