Aya Ishihara (Japanese: 石原安野, born 1974)[1] is a Japanese physicist who works as a professor of physics at Chiba University.
[2] Her research involves the search for high-energy cosmic neutrinos, including collaboration on the IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
[1] Ishihara was born in 1974 in Shizuoka Prefecture.
[1] Ishihara won the Young Scientist Award of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics in 2013, the first neutrino astrophysicist to win this award.
[4] With Shigeru Yoshida, she won the 2019 Nishina Memorial Prize for their work on high-energy cosmic neutrinos,[5] becoming only the second woman to win this prize.