CV
Current Position
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo (April, 2018-)
Research Interests
- Role of strong gravitation in cosmic evolutions
- Energy release mechanisms from accreting objects (black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs, etc.)
- Energetic phenomena in the vicinity of supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei
- Strong magnetic field
- X-ray spectroscopy and polarimetry (physics of photoionization/Comptonization, data analysis methodology)
Software Projects
- ANL Next (modular analysis framework)
- Compton Soft (Simulation and data analysis suite for X-/gamma-ray detectors)
- RubyROOT (Ruby interface to CERN/ROOT)
- MONACO (Monte-Carlo radiative transfer code)
Education
- 1996 April-1999 March: Musashi Junior High School (private)
- 1999 April-2002 March: Musashi High School (private)
- 2002 April-2004 March: Undergraduate, Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo
- 2004 April-2006 March: Undergraduate, Physics, University of Tokyo
- 2006 April-2008 March: Graduate school, Master course, Physics, University of Tokyo
- 2008 April-2011 March: Graduate school, Doctoral course, Physics, University of Tokyo
- Ph.D., University of Tokyo, March, 2011, supervised by Prof. Tadayuki Takahashi
Previous Positions
- 2008 April-2011 March: Japan Society of the Promotion of Science (JSPS) DC1 Fellow (Ph.D. student, University of Tokyo)
- 2011 April-2014 March: ASTRO-H Project Researcher, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- 2014 April-2015 November: Research Scientist (post doctoral fellow), Department of Space Astronomy and Astrophysics, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
- 2015 December-2017 November: Physical Science Research Associate, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), Stanford University
- 2017 December-2018 March: Special Post-doctoral Researcher, RIKEN