UTokyo, STS/SicComm Yokoyama Lab 
Welcome! Let's research with us.
Hiromi M. Yokoyama, Prof. Ph.D (Sci)
2025@lab
Professor (Science, Technology, and Society : STS & SciComm) at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe and the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo. A social science researcher with a science background, she is interested in issues at the intersection of science, technology, society, and ethics.
Born in Tokyo in 1975, she earned her PhD in physics (neutrino oscillations) before switching fields to become a researcher. This unique background led her to pursue graduate studies in the department, while also affiliated with the Kavli IPMU, her original field.
She holds many positions, including leadership roles in her field of expertise, such as being a board member of the Japanese STS Society, and a member of the PCST Scientific Committee.
Email address: hiromi.yokoyama_a_ipmu.jp (Please change _a_ to @), LinkdIN, X
Main research areas
Currently, we are researching three main areas:
1. Trust and social responsibility of scientists (scientific advice in times of crisis, big science policy)
2. AI and science, ethics, and society (AI for Science: AI4S, sustainable AI, AI and human resources, medical AI)
3. Human resource research in STEM (women in STEM, etc.).
Please check Project-Paper page, GoogleS..Current collaborative research partners: Australian National University, Tsinghua University, University of Melbourne, University of Chicago, Princeton University, Harvard University, Central South University, University of Jyväskylä, etc.
Welcoming visiting students & researchers
We welcome visiting students and researchers with the aim of conducting collaborative research. For short-term stays, visiting researcher status is granted by Kavli IPMU.
The JSPS fellowships and Posdoc at Kavli IPMU (The next recruitment start date is Oct 2026) will suppor you. There is also a track record of undergraduate summer research internships.
Please check the member page.
Kavli IPMU @ Kashiwa campus / Graduate School of III, Main building @ Hongo campus
Prof. Yokoyama's Career, position
Completed a Ph.D. in Physics at the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo University of Science in 2004. After positions at Tokyo Institute of Technology and The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), became Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo in 2007. Since 2017, Professor at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), The University of Tokyo, and the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo.
Currently serves as Board Member of the Japanese Society for Science and Technology Studies, University of Tokyo Press, Toyota Foundation, and the National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Japan; Editorial Advisory Board Member of Journal of Science Communication (JCOM); and Scientific Committee Member of PCST Network.
She has served as an evaluator for numerous universities and research institutions, as well as on international and domestic advisory committees on basic research and large-scale facilities.
She is currently a member of the AI for Science committee, the Graduate School Division of the Central Council for Education and the Strengthening the Functions of Universities and Colleges of Technology in Growth Fields Committee under the Ministry(MEXT), and a member of the Management Council of Yamagata University.