Curriculum Vitae

Hirosi Ooguri

(spelled as "Hiroshi Oguri" in government documents)

Fred Kavli Professor and Director
Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics
California Institute of Technology
Mail Code 452-48, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA

Director
Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe
University of Tokyo
Kashiwa, 277-8583, Japan

Chair of the Board of Trustees
Aspen Center for Physics
700 W Gillespie Street, Aspen, CO 81611, USA

Simons Investigator
Simons Foundation
160 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA

Email: ooguri@caltech.edu

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Biosketch

Finishing his graduate study in two years, Ooguri became a tenured faculty member at the University of Tokyo in 1986. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1988-89 and was appointed an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago before receiving his Ph.D. in 1989. After serving as an Associate Professor at Kyoto University for four years, he returned to the United States as a Full Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley in 1994. He moved to Caltech in 2000, where he is the inaugural holder of the Fred Kavli Chair.

At Caltech, Ooguri served as the Deputy Chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, equivalent of a Vice Dean of Physical Sciences. He led the establishment of the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics in 2014 and has been its Founding Director since then.

Ooguri also helped establish the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) of the University of Tokyo in Japan in 2007. After serving as its Principal Investigator for 11 years, he became the Director in 2018.

Ooguri was a General Member of the Aspen Center for Physics for 20 years until 2023, when he was elected an Honorary Trustee for Life. He served as the Scientific Secretary (2010-11), a Trustee (2011-16), and the President of the Center (2016-2019). Since 2021, he has been the Chair of the Board of Trustees.

Ooguri has received the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon from the Emperor of Japan, the Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics from the American Mathematical Society, the Simons Investigator Award from the Simons Foundation, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Hamburg Prize and the Humboldt Research Award in Germany, the Benjamin Lee Distinguished Professorship in Korea, and the Nishina Memorial Prize and the Chunichi Cultural Award in Japan. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Mathematical Society.

Ooguri's popular science books have sold over 300,000 copies in Japan, and one of them was awarded the Kodansha Prize for Science Books. He also supervised a science movie, which was selected for the Best Educational Production Award from the International Planetarium Society and has been translated into six languages.

Left: Nishina Prize Ceremony with 3 Nobel Laureates: Masatoshi Koshiba, Makoto Kobayashi, and Toshihide Maskawa.
Right: Hamburg Prize Ceremony at the Planetarium Hamburg [photos courtesy of Joachim Herz Stiftung/Claudia Höhne]

List of Research Papers at INSPIRE
Citation Analysis at INSPIRE
Citation Analysis at Google Scholar

Ooguri organized Strings 1998, 2003, 2018 and String-Math 2018
(chaired the organizing committees of Strings 2018 and String-Math 2018).