the Eisenbud Prize from the American Mathematical Society, the Humboldt Research Award and the Hamburg Prize in Germany, and the Nishina Memorial Prize in Japan. Ooguri's popular science books have sold over a quarter million copies in Japan, and one of them was awarded the Kodansha Prize for Science Books. He also supervised a science movie, which was selected for the Best Educational Production Award from the International Planetarium Society. Awards Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics, awarded by the American Mathematical Society (2008). This was the inaugural prize, which he shared with Andrew Strominger and Cumrun Vafa. Takagi Lecturer, the only named lecture series of the Mathematical Society of Japan (2008). Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2009). Nishina Memorial Prize from the Nishina Foundation (2009). Simons Investigator Award (2012). Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2012. Kodansha Prize for Science books (2013). Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2016). Chunichi Cultural Prize (2016). Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics (2018) Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon (2019) Other activities Ooguri has organized many international conferences and workshops, including Strings `98 in Santa Barbara, Strings 2003 in Kyoto, and Strings 2018 in Okinawa. Ooguri has been on the editorial boards of Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, the Journal of High Energy Physics (1997–2006), Nuclear Physics B (1998–2013), Physical Review D (2006–2009) and Communications in Mathematical Physics (2014–2015). He has also served on various boards and advisory committees. References External links Official Website Japanese string theorists Living people 1962 births People from Gifu Prefecture Kyoto University alumni University of Tokyo alumni California Institute of Technology faculty University of California, Berkeley faculty University of Chicago faculty Academic staff of Kyoto University Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Simons Investigator Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon