Mayuko Yamashita
Mayuko Yamashita is a Japanese mathematician and mathematical physicist whose research combines the areas of algebraic topology, differential cohomology, and quantum field theory. She is an associate professor at Kyoto University.
Education and career
Yamashita represented Japan in the 2013 International Mathematical Olympiad, earning a silver medal. She studied engineering at the University of Tokyo, earning a bachelor's degree in 2017. She earned a master's degree in mathematical sciences at the University of Tokyo in March 2019, and completed a Ph.D. there in 2022. Her dissertation, Differential models for the Anderson dual to bordism theories and invertible QFT's, was supervised by Yasuyuki Kawahigashi.Meanwhile, in 2019, she became an assistant professor in the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences of Kyoto University, while only 23 years old. She was promoted to associate professor in 2023 and joined the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in April 2025.