Autor/-in: Masatoshi Kajita

Masatoshi Kajita is a guest professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan. He was born and raised in Nagoya, Japan. He earned his BS in applied physics from the University of Tokyo in 1981 and his PhD in physics in 1986. After working at the Institute for Molecular Science, he joined the Communications Research Laboratory in 1989 (later NICT). He was a guest professor at Université de Provence in 2009 and, after retiring from NICT in 2023, he became a guest researcher at the University of Tokyo. In April 2026, he took up his current position at Tokyo Metropolitan University.