Nakahata Masayuki

Director of the Kamioka Observatory, operated by the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Cosmic Ray Research. Nakahata is also the director of the Super-Kamioka Nucleon Decay Experiment. Born in Matsumoto, Nagano, in 1959, Nakahata began studying the physical sciences at the University of Tokyo in 1978, earning his BS in 1982 and his MS in 1988. Nakahata also holds a doctorate in the physical sciences. A lecturer at the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research since 2003, Nakahata was appointed chief researcher at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe in 2007, before in 2014 becoming director of the Kamioka Observatory and the Super Kamiokande Group. Since 2015, Nakahata has served as deputy director of the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research. Awards include the Nishina Memorial Prize. Publications include Kieta taiyō nyūtorino no nazo o ou (Pursuing the Mystery of Vanishing Solar Neutrinos), and the third chapter in Kamiokande to nyūtorino (Kamiokande and Neutrinos).