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Thailand – Japan Student Science Fair 2020 (TJ-SSF 2020)
“Seeding Innovations through Fostering Thailand – Japan Youth Friendship”

Keynote Speakers Biography

Takaaki Kajita is the Special University

Professor at TheUniversity of Tokyo, and also
the Director of the Institute for Cosmic Ray
Research (ICRR) of The University of Tokyo.
Kajita received his Ph.D. from The
University of Tokyo School of Science in 1986,
and has been researching at Kami-okande and
Super-Kamiokande detectors at the Kamioka

Observatory in central Japan.
In 1998, at the Neutrino International
Conference held in Takayama, Gifu, he showed
the analysis results which provided strong
evidence for atmospheric neutrino oscillations.

In 2015 he shared the Nobel Prize in
Physics for his role in discovering atmosphe-ric
neutrino oscillations.
Currently, he is the project leader for KAGRA Project, aiming to explore
the gravitational wave astronomy.

Education Graduated from Kawagoe High School 1977

Bachelor of Science, Saitama University 1981

Master of Science, The University of Tokyo 1983

Doctor of Science, The University of Tokyo 1986

Specialized Cosmic Ray Physics
Field
Career Research Associate, International Center for 1986-
History Elementary Particle Physics 1988
Research Associate, Institute for Cosmic Ray 1988-
Research, The University of Tokyo 1992
Associate Professor, Institute for Cosmic Ray 1992-
Research, The University of Tokyo 1995

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