Yohsuke Murase
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CV

Yohsuke Murase

  • Team Director, Mathematical Social Science Team, RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS)
  • Concurrent: Senior Research Scientist, Discrete Event Simulation Research Team, RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS).
  • Concurrent: Coordinate Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University.

Email: yohsuke.murase [at] gmail.com / yohsuke.murase [at] riken.jp Links: Publications / Talks / ORCID / Google Scholar / GitHub

Appointments

  • Concurrent: Coordinate Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, October 1, 2025 to present.
  • Team Director, Mathematical Social Science Team, RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS), September 1, 2025 to present.
  • Concurrent: Senior Research Scientist, Discrete Event Simulation Research Team, RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), April 1, 2025 to present.
  • Senior Research Scientist, Mathematical Social Science Team, RIKEN Center for Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences (iTHEMS), April 1, 2025 to August 31, 2025.
  • Concurrent: Research Scientist, Exa-Scale Application Development Team, RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2018.
  • Research Scientist, Discrete Event Simulation Research Team, RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), April 1, 2013 to March 31, 2025.
  • Software Developer, Elysium, April 1, 2010 to March 31, 2013.
  • Research Assistant, Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, April 1, 2008 to March 31, 2010.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo.
    • Dissertation: “Statistical mechanics study on community assembly”
    • Advisor: Prof. N. Ito
    • Date: March 2010
  • M.Sc. in Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo.
  • B.Sc. in Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo.

Awards and Honors

  • 11th RIKEN Research Incentive Award (Ohbu Award), 2020.
  • 18th Docomo Mobile Science Award, Excellence Award in Social Science, 2019.
  • Best poster award, Social Modeling and Simulation plus Econophysics Colloquium, 2014.
  • Best Paper of 2010 (IOP Science): “A simple model for skewed species-lifetime distributions.”

Research Interests

  • Evolution of cooperation.
  • Dynamics on and of social networks.
  • HPC simulation tooling.