Postdoc in physics / Simulations / Data analysis & visualisation / Presentation

About me

Hello! I am Yuuka Kanakubo, a postdoctoral researcher specializing in nuclear and high-energy physics. My research focuses on developing Monte-Carlo simulations of relativistic nuclear collisions.

I received Ph.D. in physics from Sophia University in Japan supported by the Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC1) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. After my Ph.D., I worked as a project postdoc at the Centre of Excellence in Quark Matter at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland for two years. Currently, I am a RIKEN-Berkeley fellow at the RIKEN iTHEMS (Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences), and stationed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and RIKEN Berkeley Center at University of California, Berkeley in United State. If you want to know more, please take a look at my Curriculum Vitae.

For contact, please send me an email to yuuka.kanakubo_aT_gmail.com (please replace _aT_ with @). Also you can find me on social media listed at the bottom of this page.

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Experience

Research Assistant
Faculty of Science and Technology, Sophia University

  • Apr 2018 - Mar 2020, Tokyo Japan
  • Teaching assistant in physics courses
  • Mentoring bachelor students
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Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä

  • Oct 2022 - Sep 2024, Jyväskylä Finland
  • Project at the Centre of Excellence
    in Quark Matter
  • Link to the JYU website
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RIKEN-Berkeley fellow
RIKEN iTHEMS

  • Oct 2024 - present, Saitama, Japan / Berkeley, U.S.

Community Service

Peer Review Referee

  • Physical Review Letters
  • Physical Review C
  • Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics
  • European Physical Journal Web of Conferences
  • Research interests

    PbPbxyplane
    This is a simulation of particle generation just after a collision of lead-ion pair at extremely high energy.

    The state of the matter generated in this collision is called quark-gluon plasma (QGP) ⸺ the state of the universe ~0.00001 sec after the Big Bang.