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{{Short description|Japanese physicist}}
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{{Western name order|Hiyama Emiko}}
'''Emiko Hiyama''' ({{langx|ja|肥山 詠美子}}) is a Japanese computational [[nuclear physics|nuclear physicist]] whose research concerns computational methods for [[few-body systems]] of nucleons.{{r|aiming}} She is the director of the Strangeness Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the [[Riken]] Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science,{{r|riken}} and a professor of physics at [[Tohoku University]].{{r|tohoku}}

==Education and career==
Hiyama is originally from [[Fukuoka Prefecture]],{{r|tohoku}} and studied physics at [[Kyushu University]].{{r|researchmap}}

She was a researcher for [[KEK]], the Japanese High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, from 2000 to 2004. In 2004, she became an associate professor at [[Nara Women's University]]. She moved to Riken in 2008, and became laboratory director there in 2018. From 2017 to 2020 she was also affiliated with the Department of Physics at [[Kyushu University]], and in 2021 she took her present position as a professor at [[Tohoku University]].{{r|researchmap}}

==Recognition==
Hiyama was the 2013 winner of the [[Saruhashi Prize]],{{r|saru1}} for "developing computational methods for precise solutions of quantum <math>n</math>-body problems".{{r|saru2}}

==References==
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<ref name=aiming>{{citation|url=https://www.riken.jp/en/careers/diversity/leader/emiko_hiyama/index.html|title=Developing a new precision calculation method with the goal of being the No.1 globally|work=RIKEN diverse research leaders at the forefront of science|date=March 2017|publisher=Riken|access-date=2022-08-19}}</ref>

<ref name=researchmap>{{citation|url=https://researchmap.jp/Emiko_Hiyama?lang=en|title=Emiko Hiyama|work=researchmap|publisher=Japan Science and Technology Agency|access-date=2022-08-19}}</ref>

<ref name=riken>{{citation|url=https://www.riken.jp/en/research/labs/rnc/strang_nucl_phys/index.html|title=Strangeness Nuclear Physics Laboratory, Director: Emiko Hiyama (D.Sc.)|publisher=Riken|access-date=2022-08-19}}</ref>

<ref name=saru1>{{citation|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/15/national/woman-seeks-to-be-top-nuke-physicist/|title=Woman seeks to be top nuke physicist|date=15 May 2013|newspaper=The Japan Times}}</ref>

<ref name=saru2>{{citation|url=https://www.riken.jp/en/news_pubs/news/2013/20130426_3/|title=Emiko Hiyama receives Saruhashi Award|publisher=[[Riken]]|date=26 April 2013|access-date=2022-08-19}}</ref>

<ref name=tohoku>{{citation|url=https://www.sci.tohoku.ac.jp/english/aobayama/hiya_e.html|title=People: HIYAMA|publisher=Tohoku University|access-date=2022-08-19}}</ref>

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==External links==
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