Background

Appointments

2024–present

Associate Professor Kyoto University, Dept. of Physics and Astrophysics

2022–2024

Project Assistant Professor The University of Tokyo, ICEPP

2017–2021

Postdoctoral Fellow University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Advisors: Brig Williams, Joe Kroll

Education

2017

Ph.D. in Science The University of Tokyo, Dept. of Physics Advisors: Sachio Komamiya, Shoji Asai

2014

Master’s degree in Physics The University of Tokyo, Dept. of Physics Advisor: Sachio Komamiya

1. 2025

   Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics

   Breakthrough Prize

   Co-authors of publications based on CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Run-2 data released between 2015 and July 15, 2024, at the experimental collaborations ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb. (ATLAS – 5,345 researchers, CMS – 4,550, ALICE – 1,869, LHCb – 1,744).

2. 2021

   ATLAS Outstanding Achievement Award

   ATLAS Collaboration

   DAQ upgrades and commissioning directed to the TRT operation at high occupancy and trigger rates

   Elodie Deborah Resseguie, Shion Chen, George Ian Dyckes, Khilesh Pradip Mistry, Daniil Ponomarenko, Vincent Wong, Keisuke Yoshihara

3. 2019

   Young Scientist Award

   Physical Society of Japan

   Search for Gluinos using Final States with One Isolated Lepton in the LHC-ATLAS Experiment

   Shion Chen

1. 2026–2029

   Broadband dark matter search using a superconducting qubit receiver with single-photon sensitivity

   Japan Society for Promotion of Science · KAKENHI · 基盤研究(B)

   Yuya Mino, Shion Chen, Tatsumi Nitta

   Grant 26K00708

2. 2025–2028

   Leveraging dark matter searches using advanced tau lepton identification technologies

   Japan Society for Promotion of Science · KAKENHI · 基盤研究(B)

   Tomoyuki Saito, Shion Chen

   Grant 25K01023

3. 2025–2030

   Wideband dark matter search using novel sensing technologies based on superconducting qubits

   Japan Society for Promotion of Science · KAKENHI · 基盤研究(A)

   Shion Chen, Hajime Fukuda, Tatsumi Nitta

   Grant 25H00638

4. 2024–2029

   Development of error correction techniques for fault-tolerant quantum computers

   Japan Society for Promotion of Science · KAKENHI · 基盤研究(A)

   Koji Terashi, Yutaro Iiyama, Shion Chen

   Grant 24H00689

5. 2023–2026

   Demonstration of single-photon detection and frequency tuning using superconducting qubits for the next generation axion searches

   Japan Society for Promotion of Science · KAKENHI · 基盤研究(B)

   Tatsumi Nitta, Shion Chen

   Grant 23K25878

6. 2023–2024

   Searches for new particles and exploration of cosmic magnetic plasma with 1000T B-field

   Japan Society for Promotion of Science · KAKENHI · 学術変革領域研究(A)

   Toshiaki Inada, Yoichi Sakawa, Morita Taichi, Shoji Asai, Shion Chen, Tatsumi Nitta

   Grant 23H04864

7. 2023–2025

   Exploration of the strong coupling regime between the 3D cavity and super conducting quantum bits for low-mass wave-like dark matter searches

   Japan Society for Promotion of Science · KAKENHI · 若手研究

   Shion Chen

   Grant 23K13093

8. 2014–2017

   Measurement of Higgs-boson Yukawa coupling to tau leptons with the ATLAS detector

   Japan Society for the Promotion of Science · Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows · Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows

   Shion Chen

   Grant 14J09266