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Hiromi Yokoyama Position Professor (from 2017/04/01 ) Deputy Director (from 2022/04/01 to 2025/03/31) show past_positions Other Affiliation Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo Research Field Science and Society Data-Driven Discovery Modern science theory in the humanities and sociology research E-Mail <hiromi.yokoyama _at_ ipmu.jp>  URL https://member.ipmu.jp/hiromi.yokoyama/en/index.html

I am a researcher of science communication and public policy. I am interested in how science maintains to be highly trusted by society, how it can develop in harmony, and how academia should fulfill their responsibility to society. In particular, I am interested in the following three studies::

1. Patronage of basic science (crowdfunding, etc.)
2. Mega and big science policy and communication (ILC, TMT, SK etc.)
3. Science and gender (low proportion of female students in physics and mechanical engineering)