000001277 001__ 1277 000001277 005__ 20190201080635.0 000001277 037__ $$aBELLE2-TALK-CONF-2019-003 000001277 041__ $$aeng 000001277 088__ $$aBELLE2-TALK-DRAFT-2019-001 000001277 100__ $$aFrancesco Forti 000001277 245__ $$aStatus and perspectives of the Belle II experiment 000001277 260__ $$a57th International Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics$$c2019-01-23 000001277 300__ $$amult. p 000001277 500__ $$a30+5 min 000001277 520__ $$aThe Belle II experiment at the SuperKEKB e+e- collider has completed a commissioning phase in 2018 and is gearing up for full physics data taking starting in March 2019. In this paper the status of the experiment, the first results of the 2018 data taking, as well as the futures plans and perspectives will be presented. 000001277 8560_ $$fdoris.yangsoo.kim@desy.de 000001277 8564_ $$uhttps://docs.belle2.org/record/1277/files/BELLE2-TALK-CONF-2019-003.pdf