Organization

KMI Organization

Senior Leadership

Director	IIJIMA Toru
Director Emeritus	KOBAYASHI Makoto
Chair for division of Theoretical Studies	SHIROMIZU Tetsuya
Chair for division of Experimental Studies	ITOW Yoshitaka
Chair for International Flavor Physics Center (FlaP)	IIJIMA Toru
Chief for Computational Theoretical Physics Laboratory	ICHIKI Kiyotomo
Chief for Instrument Development Laboratory	NAKANO Toshiyuki
Chief for Tau-Lepton Data Analytics Laboratory	IIJIMA Toru
Chief for Public Relations office	MIYATAKE Hironao
Deputy chief for Public Relations office	KAZAMA Shingo

Advisory Board

• John Ellis (Professor, King’s College London)
• Satoshi Iso (Professor, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK))
• Takaaki Kajita (Director, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, The University of Tokyo)
• Hitoshi Murayama (Professor, University of California, Berkeley)
• Misao Sasaki (Professor, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo)
• Joseph Silk (Professor, Institut d’astrophysique de Paris)
• Masanori Yamauchi (Director General, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK))

(in alphabetical order, as of May, 2022)

International Partner Institutions

• Tel Aviv University, School of Physics and Astronomy
• Yonsei University, Institute of Physics and Applied Physics
• Jozef Stefan Institute
• University of Edinburgh, acting through the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics
• Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC)
• The Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Theoretical Physics
• National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Padova Division

JSPS Core-to-core Program

The Core-to-Core program is designed to create top world-class research centers that partner over the long term with other core research institutions around the world in advancing research in leading-edge fields on issues of high international priority.

The KMI’s project — International research network to reveal dark matter in the universe by multidisciplinary approach in particle and astrophysics — starts in FY 2020 and continues until FY 2024 in collaboration with four countries: Japan, Germany, Italy, UK, and Korea. Professor Junji Hisano from KMI joins the project as the coordinater of Japan. The Counterpart core institutions are Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, National Institute for Nuclear Physics/Padova Division, University of Edinburgh, and Institute for Basic Science. In addition to those core institutes, many researchers from other domestic and foreign institutes are involved in the project. Through the project, KMI will improve the study of the dark universe.