Yuta Michimura

Yuta Michimura, an assistant professor at the Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, is an experimentalist in the theory of relativity and gravity. He is working on the development of the gravitational wave telescope KAGRA and experimental verification of fundamental physics. Prof. Michimura received his Bachelor of Science in physics from The University of Tokyo in 2010. Thereafter he joined the group of Professor Kimio Tsubono at the Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo,...See more

Yuta Michimura, an assistant professor at the Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, is an experimentalist in the theory of relativity and gravity. He is working on the development of the gravitational wave telescope KAGRA and experimental verification of fundamental physics. Prof. Michimura received his Bachelor of Science in physics from The University of Tokyo in 2010. Thereafter he joined the group of Professor Kimio Tsubono at the Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, and completed his Master of Science in physics in 2012 and his Doctor of Science in physics in 2015. He was awarded a research fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and was supported by JSPS between April 2013 and June 2014. In 2015, he received the Young Scientist Award of the Physical Society of Japan. See less