Masahiro Yamaguchi

Masahiro Yamaguchi is Vice President for Education Reform and Global Engagement, and also Director of Advance Graduate School ,

Director of the Global Learning Center and the Center for Culture and Language Education in the Institute for Excellence in Higher Education, as

well as Director of the International Strategy Office at Tohoku University. He has played an important role in the internationalization of the

university, in particular in designing the international strategy and international education. He has devoted himself to the implementation of the Tohoku University’s Top Global University Project.

He has been a professor at the Department of Physics in the Graduate School of Science since 2003. His research area is theoretical particle physics and cosmology. He was awarded the Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial Prize in 1996.