Reina Maruyama
Physics, Yale University
Research Focus
Research Interests
About Reina
Professor Reina Maruyama is an experimental particle/atomic/nuclear physicist. She is exploring new physics in nuclear and particle astrophysics. Her group is carrying out experiments in direct detection of dark matter with terrestrial-based detectors for both axions and WIMPs and searches for neutrinoless double beta decay.
Prof. Maruyama graduated with a B.S. in Applied Physics from Columbia University in 1995. She obtained her Ph.D. in atomic physics in 2003 at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA), and was a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She was a research scientist then assistant professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison from 2006-2013, then Yale University from 2013-present.
She is the recipient of Sloan Research Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, and is an APS Fellow.
Honors
APS Fellowship
NSF CAREER Award
Sloan Research Fellowship
Education
Postdoc
University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D.
Physics, University of Washington
Master's
Physics, University of Washington
Bachelor's
Columbia University
