Emiko Hiyama (Japanese: 肥山 詠美子) is a Japanese computational nuclear physicist whose research concerns computational methods for few-body systems of nucleons.
[1] She is the director of the Strangeness Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the Riken Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science,[2] and a professor of physics at Tohoku University.
[3] Hiyama is originally from Fukuoka Prefecture,[3] and studied physics at Kyushu University.
In 2004, she became an associate professor at Nara Women's University.
[4] Hiyama was the 2013 winner of the Saruhashi Prize,[5] for "developing computational methods for precise solutions of quantum