Reina Maruyama is a professor of physics at Yale University. Her research focuses on the study of neutrinos and fundamental symmetries, astrophysics & cosmology, elementary particles, quantum science, and sensing; with particular focus on understanding the particle nature of dark matter and neutrinos and the role of symmetry in fundamental physics.
Professor Maruyama develops technologies and carries out experiments to probe the underlying physics of fundamental symmetries, origins of the Universe, and nature of neutrinos and dark matter. The Maruyama group uses techniques being developed in the fields of quantum sensors, atomic, nuclear, particle, and astrophysics to solve some of the greatest mysteries of the evolution of the Universe.
Before joining the faculty at Yale University, she was on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California-Berkeley.
Professor Maruyama received her Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Physics from Columbia University, and Masters and Ph.D. in Physics from The University of Washington. Her thesis work was Optical Trapping of Ytterbium Atoms.
