CV
- Kohsaku Tobioka (Ph.D.)
- Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Florida State University
- Office: 506 in KEEN building (map)
Full CV+publication list, see here.
Education
- Ph.D., Physics, University of Tokyo, Kavli IPMU, Japan, March 2014
- Dissertation: “Aspects of Supersymmetry after LHC Run I”
- M.Sc., Physics, University of Tokyo, Kavli IPMU, Japan, March 2011
- Thesis: “Physics of the Minimal Universal Extra Dimension model at the LHC experiments”
- B.Sc., Physics, Tohoku University, Japan, March 2009
Education at other institutions
Visiting Student Researcher, University of California, Berkeley, USA, September 2012–March 2013 and January–May 2012
Exchange Student, major in Physics, University of California, San Diego, USA, September 2007–June 2008
Work experience
- August 2024–present: Associate Professor
- Department of Physics, Florida State University, FL, USA
- September 2018–present: Associate Researcher
- KEK Theory Center, Japan
- August 2018–August 2024: Assistant Professor
- Department of Physics, Florida State University, FL, USA
- July 2017–August 2018: Postdoctoral Associate
- C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stony Brook University, USA
- October 2014–June 2017: Postdoctoral Fellow (joint appointment)
- Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
- April–September 2014: Postdoctoral Fellow
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan
- April 2012–March 2014: JSPS Doctoral Course Research Fellow (DC2)
- University of Tokyo, Kavli IPMU, Japan
Grants
- FSU-CRC Summer Research Support, 2024
- As a PI, project: “Mystery of Neutrinos After the Next Generation Experiments”
- Total award $20,000
- Department of Energy DE-FOA-0002546, USA (DE-SC0010102), 2023
- Supplemental funds for Okui and Tobioka
- Total award $21,000
- Department of Energy DE-FOA-0002546, USA (DE-SC0010102), 2022–2025
- As a Co-PI of FSU HEP-TH&EX group including 9 PIs, project: “Probing Testable New Physics at the Intensity and Energy Frontiers”
- Total award $2,720,000
- JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), Japan (No. 82118-041-15-0008), 2021–2024
- As a Co-PI with Motoi Endo (PI), Ryuichiro Kitano (Co-PI), Takemichi Okui (Co-PI)
- Project: “Exploring Quark and Lepton Structure via Light Particles”
- Total award $119,000
- Department of Energy DE-FOA-0001961, USA (DE-SC0010102), 2019–2022
- As a Co-PI of FSU HEP-TH&EX group including 8 PIs, project: “New Observables for New Physics at the Energy and Intensity Frontiers”
- Total award $2,247,000
- FSU-CRC First Year Assistant Professor award, 2019
- As a PI, project: “Diphoton Resonance of New Elementary Particle”
- Total award $20,000
- Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Japan (No. 14J00179), 2014–2016
- Project: “Beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics at a TeV scale”
- Total award 4,030,000 JPY (approximately $34,900)
- Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Japan (No. 12J09059), 2012–2014
- Project: “Dark Matter and Electroweak Phase Transition at a TeV scale”
- Total award 1,800,000 JPY (approximately $15,600)