Shigeki Matsumoto is a theoretical physicist at Kavli IPMU (Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe) in the University of Tokyo. He received his Ph.D at Tohoku University in 2000. Collaborated with Junji Hisano and Mihoko Nojiri, he invented the Sommerfeld effect to dark matter physics. He recently works as a working group member of ILC’s Advisory Panel in Japanese government (MEXT) as well as a committee member of Japan Association of High Energy Physicists (JAHEP). His major interests are dark matter physics involving model buildings, collider searches, direct and indirect detections, cosmology, astrophysics of darkmatter.