Hiromitsu Haba
RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, Japan
Biography
Hiromitsu Haba received his PhD from Kanazawa University in 1999. In the following years, he worked at Japan Atomic Energy Institute as Postdoctoral Researcher (1999–2001) and at RIKEN as Special Postdoctoral Researcher (2002–2004), Research Scientist (2004–2006), Senior Research Scientist (2007–2010) and Team Leader (2011–2017). Since 2018, he has been Group Director of RI Application Research Group, Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science, RIKEN. In 2001, he was awarded the “Young Scientist Award” of the The Japan Society of Nuclear and Radiochemical Sciences. His scientific interests are nuclear and radiochemistry in general, with one focus on the synthesis and chemistry of superheavy elements.