FUNASAKA Yuzuka

4th Year Undergraduate Student, Department of Physics, School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University

Since 2021, Yuzuka studies as an undergraduate student in Waseda University. She majors in physics and is planning to work on nuclear data evaluation for her senior thesis.

When she was 7, Yuzuka read a book about the Universe, which made her become particularly fascinated by Astronomy.　She spent most of her elementary school years in Czech Republic, and Australia during her time in senior high school. While she was in Australia, she challenged herself in attending the HASSE senior space school camp at NASA to delve deeper into her interests in Astronomy. She also addressed cultural issues by leading the school council as one of the school prefects.

In college, Yuzuka encountered topics on radiation physics in her classes for the first time. This eventually made her interested in the research on nuclear energy.