Yuta Takahashi

CV (overleaf)

2022: CMS Young Researchers Prize
2010: Excellent young researcher Prize from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2008: Scholar encouragement prize from Nagoya University, Japan
2007: The best poster award: "ATLAS detector", 1st Nagoya Winter School
2007: The best poster award: "The commissioning of the ATLAS detector", 6th Nagoya University Young Researcher Workshops

As a teaching assistant, I supervised students’ modern physics lab experiments for more than 10 semesters at the University of Zürich

2023: Ratio of specific heats, Magnetic Field
2022: Coupled Oscillations, Gyroscope
2021: Compton Scattering, Data Analysis
2020: γ-ray absorption, Mechanical oscillations, Resonances
2019: Positronium lifetime, Two-photon angular correlations in Co60 decay, Ratio of specific heats
2018: Gravitational constant, Friction in fluids, Viscosity, Electron specific charge e/m, LCR-electric circuits
2017: Mechanical oscillations and resonances, Friction and viscosity in gases, Michelson interferometer
2016: Pendulum and error calculus, Elastic collisions
2007: Lecture assistant, Nagoya University (nuclear physics experiments)

2019 - 2023: Marc Huwiler, PhD student at the University of Zürich: Lepton-Flavour-Universality test using B → D∗τν decays.
2018: Pablo Matorras, Master student at University of Zürich: Future projection studies of leptoquark searches at the LHC.
2016 - 2022: Izaak Neutelings, Master & PhD at the University of Zürich, Searched for ττ resonance at the LHC. Development of τ identification. New leptoquark analysis.
2015: Emery Nibigira (from Senegal), CERN summer school student: Worked on the identification of the leptonically decaying tau leptons.
2015: Marcel Stefko (from Turkey), CERN summer school student: Studied misidentification probabilities of the jets to hadronically decaying tau leptons.
2014: Siobhan Smith (from U.K), CERN summer school student: Studied future projections of Higgs boson searches in tau-lepton final states.

Referee for physics journals: EPJC x 2 (2016, 23), SciPost (2019), JHEP x 3 (2020, 22, 23), PLB (2021)
CMS Analysis Review Committee: EXO-22-007, HIG-20-010, HIG-20-006, TOP-18-005, FTR-18-008, PAS-14-02
I also contributed to the reviewing processes of many CMS scientific papers through institutional review and collaboration-wide review

2023: Convener of the CMS EXO Jet + X Group (L3, EXO subgroup)
2019: Convener of the B-physics Trigger task force for Run-3
2019: Convener of the CMS "Violation of Fundamental Symmetries" Group (L3, B-physics subgroup)
2015 - 2016: Convener of the CMS Tau identification group (L3, Tau Physics Object Group)
2015: Convener of the CMS Tau polarization measurement group
2015: Monte Carlo generator contact for the CMS Higgs to tau-tau group
2009: On-call detector expert for the ATLAS muon detector

2021: Swiss National Science Foundation project funding: Helped prepare the proposal for the tau g-2 measurement and R(J/psi) measurement.
2021: Application to the SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowships (PCEFP2_194760): invited to interview. Ranked as the second-highest level among six.
2020: Application to the SNSF Eccellenza Professorial Fellowships (PCEFP2_186855): invited to interview. Ranked as the third-highest level among six.
2018: Swiss National Science Foundation project funding: Helped prepare the proposal for leptoquark searches and low-mass tau-tau resonance searches.
2018: Contribution to the cross-collaboration (Theory, LHCb, ATLAS, and CMS) funding, European Cooperation in Science & Technology (COST) (OC-2018-1-22588)