Hirosi Ooguri (Hiroshi Oguri)

Hirosi Ooguri

Kent and Joyce Kresa Leadership Chair,
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy
and
Fred Kavli Professor of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics
California Institute of Technology

University Professor
University of Tokyo

Ooguri studies quantum field theory, quantum gravity, and string theory. He explores mathematical structures in these theories and uses them to develop theoretical tools for solving fundamental questions in physics. His work in physics has also inspired progress in mathematics

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Ooguri is Chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy at Caltech. At Caltech, he also led the establishment of the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics and was its Founding Director from 2014 to 2025. He also served as Director of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo and as President and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Aspen Center for Physics. For more information, please visit his curriculum vitae page.

Here are some of Ooguri's research talks. For more information about his research, please visit his research page. More videos can be found on his YouTube channel.

Ooguri has published eight popular science books in Japanese that have sold 300,000 copies. He has also given more than 100 public lectures. For more information please visit his education & outreach page. More videos of his public lectures and graduate-level courses can be found on his YouTube channel.