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Hugues Chaté is a Research Director at CEA-Saclay, France, and the Lead Editorial Strategist of the Physical Review Journals for China and East Asia. He obtained is PhD in 1989 from Université Pierre & Marie Curie in Paris. After a short postdoctoral stay at Bell Laboratories, he joined the condensed matter physics department in Saclay. HC is a fellow of the American Physical Society, and was the Lead Editor of PRL from 2017 to 2025. In 2016, he took a Chair Professor position at the Beijing CSRC. HC was a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo in the Fall of 2018. Since 2025, he is a Distinguished Foreign Professor at the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. HC’s research covers a wide range of topics ranging from nonlinear dynamics to statistical physics and critical phenomena. He has played a seminal role in the development of the field of active matter.

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Atsuko K. Ichikawa earned her Ph.D. in physics from Kyoto University, specializing in experimental nuclear physics. Then she advanced into neutrino physics, particularly accelerator-based neutrino oscillation experiments. She worked at KEK and later at Kyoto University before becoming a professor at Tohoku University in 2020. From 2019 to 2023, she served as spokesperson of the T2K experiment. Recently, she has also been focusing the development of advanced detectors for searches for neutrinoless double beta decay,

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Kunihiko Kaneko graduated from the Department of Physics, the University of Tokyo in 1979 and received a Dr.Sci. from the University of Tokyo in 1984. After a postdoctoral position at Los Alamos National Laboratory, he served at the Univ. Tokyo as assistant professor (1985–1990), associate professor, and professor (1994–2022). He was also a Stanislav Ulam Fellow at Los Alamos, a visiting professor at Osaka University, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and Freiburg University, and a visiting member at the IAS, Princeton. He was a founding director of Center for Complex-Systems Biology and Universal Biology Institute at Univ. Tokyo. Since 2022, he has been a professor at the Niels Bohr Institute and professor emeritus at Univ. Tokyo. His research covers nonlinear dynamics, chaos, biophysics, and universal biology.

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Young-Kee Kim is Albert Michelson Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at University of Chicago. She received her BS (1984) and MS (1986) from Korea University, and Ph.D. (1990) from University of Rochester. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Professor of Physics at University of California, Berkeley before moving to University of Chicago in 2003 where she chaired the Physics Department(2016-2022). She served as Fermilab’s Interim Director(2025) and Deputy Director(2006-2013) and President of the American Physical Society(2024). Her primary research has been understanding the origin of mass for fundamental particles using high-energy colliders. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and received the Ho-Am Prize.

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Mikito Koshino is a Distinguished Professor of Department of Physics at the University of Osaka. He received his Ph.D. degree from University of Tokyo, Japan in 2003. He was a research associate in Tokyo Institute of Technology from 2003 to 2010, and he was an associate professor in Tohoku University from 2010 to 2016. Since 2016, he has taught in Osaka University. His current research is focused on the theoretical study on the physical properties of 2D materials and topological materials.

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Yuji Matsuda received his Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo in 1987 and subsequently worked as a research associate at The University of Tokyo. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University. After returning to Japan, he held positions of associate professor at Hokkaido University and the Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, before joining Kyoto University in 2003, where he served as a full professor. In 2025, he joined Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Senior Research Scientist. His research field is experimental condensed matter physics, particularly quantum magnetism and unconventional superconductivity.

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Hitoshi Murayama is a theoretical physicist who works on the connection between the physics of tiny elementary particles and the vast Universe. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1991, Murayama has held positions at Tohoku University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, before becoming MacAdams Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a University Professor and Hamamatsu Professor at the Kavli IPMU, the University of Tokyo, where he led the institute for 11 years as its Founding Director. He has received the Yukawa Commemoration Prize, Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, Humboldt Research Award 2017, the 2025 Particle Physics Medal and the 2025 APS Lilienfeld Prize. In 2023, He served as the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) Chair, becoming the voice for 5,000 physicists in US as they planned the next decade of US Physics.

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Yasunobu Nakamura began his research career at NEC Fundamental Research Laboratories in 1992, where he demonstrated the first coherent manipulation of a superconducting qubit in 1999 and met quantum information science. He spent a year as a Visiting Researcher at TU Delft from 2001 to 2002. Since 2012, he has been a Professor at The University of Tokyo. He has also led his research team at RIKEN since 2014. He has been the founding Director of the RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing since 2021 and the Project Leader of the MEXT Q-LEAP Flagship project on Superconducting Quantum Computing since 2018. His research field is quantum information science and technology based on superconducting circuits.

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Takuji Okamoto graduated from the Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo in 1989 (Ph.D. in History of Science in 2004). From 1994 to 1997, he was a research associate at Niigata University. He joined the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Tokyo in 1997, where he is now a professor. His research field is history of science and technology and history of higher education. His recent publications include: “A Japanese Christian Physicist Defends Evolution: Kimura Shunkichi's Appropriation of British Discourses in His Philosophical Scrutiny of Science,” Notes and Records, 79:2 (2024), pp. 325-348.

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Takahiro Sagawa received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo in 2011. He then served as a Hakubi Assistant Professor at Kyoto University and as an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo. He joined the Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo in 2015, and has been a Professor there since 2020. His research spans nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and quantum information theory, with a particular focus on the thermodynamics of information.