Hitoshi Murayama speaks at the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) Town Hall Meeting at Berkeley Lab in February 2023. Paul Mueller, Berkeley Lab
Hitoshi Murayama has been elected to serve in the chair line of the Executive Committee of the American Physical Society’s Division of Particles & Fields.
Hitoshi Murayama, a theoretical physicist in Berkeley Lab’s Physics Division and a professor of physics at UC Berkeley, has been elected to serve on the Executive Committee of the American Physical Society’s (APS) Division of Particles & Fields. Starting in January 2025, he will serve as Vice Chair for one year, then a second year as Chair-Elect, a third year as Chair of the committee, and finally as Past Chair in his fourth and last year of office.
Murayama recently served as chair of the 2023 Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5), which released the P5 Report outlining high-level recommendations for DOE and NSF support of the U.S. particle physics community over the next decade. He is a member of the Berkeley Lab Theory Group and the founding director of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo (serving from 2007 to 2018). He received the Nishinomiya Yukawa Commemoration Prize in Theoretical Physics and the Humboldt Research Award, and he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society as well as the American Association for Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.