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	After receiving B.A. in 1984 and M.S. in 1986 from Kyoto University, I became an assistant professor with tenure at the University of Tokyo in 1986. From 1988 to 1989, I was a research associate at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. I received Sc.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1989. Subsequently, I held faculty appointments at the University of Chicago and at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Kyoto University. In 1994, I became a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and was appointed a faculty senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1996. (See an article in Berkeleyan, the Berkeley campus newspaper.)
Since 2000, I have been at Caltech, where I am Fred Kavli Professor of theoretical physics. I am a member of Caltech Particle Theory Group. In 2007, I helped to establish the Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo, where I am a principal investigator. In 2008, I shared the inaugural Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics of the American Mathematical Society with Andrew Strominger and Cumrun Vafa for our work relating the counting of black hole microstates to the Gromov-Witten invariants. (For a more colloquial description of the work, see the press release.) In 2008, I gave the Takagi Lectures^[1], the only named lecture series of the Mathematical Society of Japan. In 2009, I received a Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. I was also awarded the 2009 Nishina Memorial Prize^[2] from the Nishina Memorial Foundation for my work on topological string theory. I am a member of the Aspen Center for Physics and am on the advisory board of the International Solvay Institute in Brussels and on the scientific advisory board of the Banff International Science Station. Previously, I was a member of the Advisory Board of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara. [1] Teiji Takagi was the founding father of modern mathematics research in Japan. [2] Yoshio Nishina was the founding father of modern physics research in Japan. For more details, see One-Page CV or Full Curriculum Vitae (updated in 2008).