My Personal Profile

Tetsuo MATSUI


Present Affiliation:
Institute of Physics
Department of Basic Science
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
University of Tokyo, Komaba


Origin and Education:
Born in Gifu prefecture, Japan, on March 6, 1953.

1971: Diploma from Gifu High School
1975: B.A. from Kyoto University
1977: M.S. from Nagoya University
1980: Ph. D. from Nagoya University


Past Academic Positions:
1980: Postdoctoral Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences.

1980 - 1982: Postdoctoral Research Associate at Physics Department, Stanford University

1982 - 1984: Postdoctoral Research Associate at Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California

1984 - 1986: Research Scientist at Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1986 - 1991: Principal Research Scientist at Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1991 - 1993: Associate Professor, Physics Department, Indiana University

1993 - 1999: Professor, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University

1999 - present: Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Komaba


Present research interests:
Dense matter (quark matter, hadron matter), Ultra-relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions