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, Currently I am a project postdoc at the Centre of Excellence in Quark Matter at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland . 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 interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program (iTHEMS)

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

Community Service

Peer Review Referee

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

    "In order to study the question of vacuum, we must turn to a different direction; we should investigate some "bulk" phenomena by distributing high energy over a relatively large volume." ⸺ T. D. Lee (1975)
    "Our basic picture then is that matter at densities higher than nuclear consists of a quark soup." ⸺ J. C. Collins and M. J. Perry (1975)
    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.