Directors Director / Director (concurrent) Satoshi Iso Deputy Director / Director (concurrent) / Deputy Division Director (concurrent) Tsukasa Tada Theoretical Particle Physics Deputy Director / Deputy Division Director (concurrent) Yoshimasa Hidaka Theoretical Physics Deputy Director / Deputy Division Director (concurrent) Catherine Beauchemin Virophysics Deputy Director / Deputy Division Director (concurrent) Yasuyuki Kawahigashi Operator Algebras Deputy Director (concurrent) / Deputy Division Director (concurrent) Shigehiro Nagataki Extreme Universe Director Tetsuo Hatsuda Particle and Nuclear Physics Director (concurrent) / Director (concurrent) Tomoya Nagai R&D Administration, Science Communication Scientific Advisors Senior Advisor Shigefumi Mori Mathematics, Algebraic Geometry Senior Advisor Yoh Iwasa Mathematical Biology Senior Advisor Makoto Kobayashi Theoretical Particle Physics Senior Advisor Masato Wakayama Mathematics Coordinator Coordinator Tomoya Nagai R&D Administration, Science Communication Researchers, Division of Fundamental Mathematical Science Senior Research Scientist Takumi Doi Computational Particle and Nuclear Physics Senior Research Scientist Gen Kurosawa Theoretical Biology Senior Research Scientist Yuki Yokokura Theoretical Physics (Quantum Gravity, Black Hole, Thermodynamics) Senior Research Scientist Ryosuke Iritani Mathematical Biology, Evolutionary Ecology Senior Research Scientist Shunji Matsuura Quantum Computing Senior Research Scientist Ching-Kai Chiu Condensed Matter Physics Senior Research Scientist Ryo Namba Theoretical Cosmology, Gravitational Theory Senior Research Scientist Masazumi Honda Theoretical Physics, High Energy Theory, Quantum Computation, Mathematical Physics Senior Research Scientist Masamichi Miyaji Senior Research Scientist (concurrent) Akinori Tanaka Machine Learning, Mathematical Physics Senior Research Scientist (concurrent) Ryusuke Hamazaki Statistical Mechanics Research Scientist Kyosuke 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Researcher Thomas Hitchcock Evolution, Ecology, Genetics Special Postdoctoral Researcher Seishiro Ono Quantum Condensed Matter Physics Special Postdoctoral Researcher Che-Yu Chen Gravitational Theory, Black Hole Physics Special Postdoctoral Researcher Yuto Yamamoto Algebraic Geometry, Tropical Geometry Special Postdoctoral Researcher Okuto Morikawa Theoretical Physics, Quantum Field Theory, Non-perturbative Formulation and Simulation Special Postdoctoral Researcher Takashi Satomi Harmonic Analysis, Functional Analysis Special Postdoctoral Researcher Kan Kitamura Operator Algebras, Quantum Symmetries Special Postdoctoral Researcher Osamu Fukushima Theoretical Physics, Quantum Field Theory, Integrable System Special Postdoctoral Researcher Junnosuke Koizumi Algebraic Geometry, Arithmetic Geometry Special Postdoctoral Researcher Shoto Aoki Lattice Gauge Theory, Mathematical Physics Special Postdoctoral Researcher Daichi Takeda Theoretical Physics, High Energy Physics, Quantum Gravity, 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Yamada Postdoctoral Researcher Isaac Planas Sitja Visiting Researcher Robert Baird Evolution, Genetics, Cell Biology Mathematical Genomics RIKEN ECL Research Unit, Division of Fundamental Mathematical ScienceDetails RIKEN ECL Research Unit Leader Leo Speidel Postdoctoral Researcher Lucas Sort Biostatistics, Machine Learning, Statistical Genetics Postdoctoral Researcher Aina Colomer i Vilaplana Student Trainee Ciarán O'Connor Ancient DNA, Animal Domestication, Ancient Epigenomics, Population Genomics AI for Science Team, Division of Applied Mathematical ScienceDetails Team Director (concurrent) Satoshi Iso Mathematical Application Research Team, Division of Applied Mathematical Science Team Director (concurrent) Motoko Kotani Geometry Deputy Team Director (concurrent) Tsukasa Tada Theoretical Particle Physics Research Scientist Taketo Sano Low-Dimensional Topology, Knot Theory Research Scientist Antoine Diez Mathematical Biology, Partial Differential Equations, Stochastic Processes, 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Postdoctoral Researcher Megumi Oya Postdoctoral Researcher Ruiming Li Postdoctoral Researcher Xuyang Zhao Machine Learning for Medical Postdoctoral Researcher (concurrent) Hikaru Sugimoto Senior Visiting Scientist Tetsuo Ishikawa Data-driven Medical Sciences, Machine Learning for Healthcare Visiting Scientist Shinji Nakaoka Visiting Scientist Tazro Ohta Bioinformatics Visiting Scientist Keita Koseki Visiting Scientist Yuki Goshima Technical Staff I Ayaka Hananoe Technical Staff Ⅱ (concurrent) Ayaka Mori Research Part-time Worker Ⅱ Soki Osawa Medical Science Deep Learning Team, Division of Applied Mathematical ScienceDetails Team Director Jun Seita Senior Research Scientist Naoki Nonaka Postdoctoral Researcher Dorothy Ellis Biostatistics, Omics (Multiomics, Genomics, Epigenomics, Transcriptomics), Bioinformatics, Machine Learning Technical Staff II (concurrent) Kazumi Yamada Prediction Science Research Team, Division of Applied Mathematical ScienceDetails Team Director (concurrent) Takemasa Miyoshi Data Assimilation Senior Research Scientist (concurrent) Shigenori Otsuka Data Assimilation Research Scientist Arata Amemiya Data Assimilation, Numerical Weather Prediction Research Scientist (concurrent) Shun Ohishi Research Scientist (concurrent) Michael Goodliff Data Assimilation, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics Research Scientist (concurrent) Tristan Hascoet Research Scientist (concurrent) James Taylor Postdoctoral Researcher Yuta Tarumi Postdoctoral Researcher Unashish Mondal Data Assimilation Senior Visiting Scientist Takashi Sakajo Applied Mathematics (Mathematical Fluid Dynamics) Senior Visiting Scientist Tomoki Ushiyama Visiting Scientist Abdul Wahid Mohamed Rasmy Visiting Scientist Daichi Kitahara Visiting Scientist Juan Ruiz Visiting Scientist Pierre Tandeo Visiting Scientist Menglu Qin Visiting Scientist Luciano Vidal Research Fellow Matsudo Cynthia Research Fellow Martin Rugna Research Fellow Marina Lagos Research Fellow Gimena Casaretto Research Fellow Sebastian Lopez Research Fellow Leandro Aguirre Research Associate Shungo Tonoyama Research Associate (concurrent) Tatsuro Iwanaka Technical Staff I (concurrent) Ishimizu Takahisa Assistant (concurrent) Saeko Imano Assistant (concurrent) Yukie Komori Mathematical Social Science Team, Division of Applied Mathematical Science Team Director (concurrent) Tetsuo Hatsuda Particle and Nuclear Physics Senior Research Scientist (concurrent) Yohsuke Murase Kyushu University Collaboration Team, Division of Global Collaborations and Research Talent DevelopmentDetails Team Director Ryoko Oishi-Tomiyasu RIKEN-Berkeley Center, Division of Global Collaborations and Research Talent DevelopmentDetails RIKENｰBerkeley Center Director (concurrent) Shigehiro Nagataki Extreme Universe Senior Research Scientist Yasunori Nomura Quantum Gravity, Cosmology, Particle Physics Postdoctoral Researcher Yan Lyu Hadronic Physics, Lattice Gauge Field Theory Postdoctoral Researcher Jan Schuette-Engel Particle Physics, Astroparticle Physics, Cosmology Postdoctoral Researcher Yuuka Kanakubo High-Energy Physics, Nuclear Theory Postdoctoral Researcher Gabriele Di Ubaldo Theoretical Physics, Conformal Field Theory, Quantum Gravity, Quantum Chaos Research Consultants, Division of Fundamental Mathematical Science Research Consultant Koichi Yazaki Nuclear and Hadron Physics Research Consultant Kazuo Fujikawa Particle theory, Quantum science Research Consultant Takeo Inami Senior Visiting Scientists, Division of Fundamental Mathematical Science Senior Visiting Scientist Atsushi Mochizuki Theoretical Biology Senior Visiting Scientist Takashi Tsuboi Topology, Dynamical Systems Senior Visiting Scientist Gordon Baym Quantum Many-body Theory Senior Visiting Scientist Wick C. Haxton Nuclear Astrophysics Senior Visiting Scientist Hiroshi Suito Applied Mathematics, Computational Fluid Dynamics Senior Visiting Scientist Hideaki Aoyama Elementary Particle Theory, Mathematical Linguistics, Econophysics Senior Visiting Scientist Takashi Sakajo Applied Mathematics (Mathematical Fluid Dynamics) Senior Visiting Scientist Hidetoshi Nishimori Statistical Mechanics, Quantum Computation Senior Visiting Scientist Junichi Chikazoe Senior Visiting Scientist Koji Fujiwara Senior Visiting Scientist (concurrent) Kazuyuki Aihara Mathematical Engineering Visiting Scientists (SUURI-COOL), Division of Fundamental Mathematical Science Visiting Scientist Masato Itami Statistical Physics Visiting Scientist Sonia Mahmoudi Mathematics, Topology Visiting Scientists (iTHEMS Alumni), Division of Fundamental Mathematical Science Visiting Scientist Shun Furusawa Astrophysics, Nuclear Physics Visiting Scientist Yosuke Kubota Mathematics, Index Theorem Visiting Scientist Hidetoshi Taya Physics Visiting Scientist Masato Taki Mathematical Physics, Machine Learning Visiting Scientist Masashi Tachikawa Cell Biology, Biophysics Visiting Scientist Yoshiyuki Inoue High Energy Astrophysics Visiting Scientist Jeffrey Fawcett Genome Evolution Visiting Scientist Ade Irma Suriajaya Analytic Number Theory Visiting Scientist Takashi Okada Mathematical Biology Visiting Scientist Yuka Kotorii Mathematics, Topology Visiting Scientist Genki Ouchi Mathematics, Algebraic Geometry Visiting Scientist Masaru Hongo Particle and Nuclear Physics, Nonequilibrium physics Visiting Scientist Tomoki Ozawa Condensed Matter Physics, AMO Physics, Topological Insulator Visiting Scientist Don Warren Cosmic Rays, Gamma-ray Bursts, Virology Visiting Scientist Shingo Gibo Theoretical Biology, Nonlinear Oscillation, Acoustic Engineering Visiting Scientist Masahiro Nozaki Elementary Particle Physics, Quantum Information Visiting Scientist Gilles Ferrand Astrophysics Visiting Scientist Yongjia Huang High 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Visiting Scientist Yuya Kusuki Physics Visiting Scientist Michiya Mori Mathematics, Physics Visiting Scientist Naritaka Oshita Quantum/Classical Gravity, Cosmology, Quantum Field Theory Visiting Scientist Akira Harada Physics, Space Science Visiting Scientist Kazuki Kannaka Mathematics Visiting Scientist Eiji Inoue Mathematics Visiting Scientist Etsuko Itou Particle and Nuclear Physics, Lattice QCD, Quantum Computing Visiting Scientist Yalong Cao Algebraic Geometry, Mathematical Physics Visiting Scientist Jizhou Li Chaos and Dynamical Systems, Virophysics Visiting Scientist Kotaro Murakami Physics Visiting Scientist Shou Yoshikawa Algebraic Geometry Visiting Scientist Akira Matsumoto Theoretical Particle Physics, Lattice Gauge Theory, Quantum Computing Visiting Scientist Maria Manuela Saez Neutrino Physics, Astroparticles Visiting Scientist Ermal Rrapaj Nuclear Astrophysics, Quantum Computing Visiting Scientist Kohei Hayashi Probability Theory Visiting Scientist Lucy McNeill 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Physics, Machine Learning Visiting Scientist Hirotaka Irie Quantum Computation, Mathematical Physics Visiting Scientist Shinya Gongyo Physics Visiting Scientist Shoichiro Tsutsui Visiting Scientist Yuta Kikuchi Elementary Particle Physics Visiting Scientist Shotaro Funai AI (Machine Learning), Brain Science, Theoretical Physics Visiting Scientist Clare West Student Trainee Intern, Division of Fundamental Mathematical Science Junior Research Associate / Student Trainee (concurrent) Soichiro Uemura Topology, Mathematical Physics Junior Research Associate / Student Trainee (concurrent) Jinyang Li Particle Physics, Machine Learning International Program Associate Qianteng Zhu Particle and Nuclear Physics, Machine Learning, AI for Science International Program Associate Iao-Fai Io Conformal Field Theory, Condensed Matter Theory Research Part-time Worker Ⅰ (concurrent) / Student Trainee Keiichi Morita Mathematical Biology, Evolutionary Community Ecology Student Trainee Rumi Hasegawa Student 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