Biography

Satoshi Mihara has been a professor at the Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies of the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan, since 2014. He is an experimental particle physicist working on searches for rare muon decays: the MEG experiment at the Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland) and the COMET experiment at J-PARC. He took part in building the MEG liquid xenon photon detector and the COMET LYSO calorimeter. He teaches at the SOKENDAI graduate school. He is an honorary doctor of GTU and a member of its Supervisory Board.

Education

• Kyoto University, Faculty of Science – 1991
• Kyoto University, Graduate School – 1997

Scientific degree and rank

• Professor
• Honorary Doctor of Georgian Technical University

Work experience

• 1997–2007 – University of Tokyo, International Center for Elementary Particle Physics (ICEPP), research associate
• 2007 – University of Tokyo, ICEPP, assistant professor
• 2008–2014 – KEK, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, associate professor
• Since 2014 – KEK, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, professor

Awards, prizes

• Award for Science and Technology of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, 2005
• Koshiba Prize, 2007