Project Researcher (KAKENHI Postdoc) based at NAOJ
Research Interest: Study of the role of magnetic fields in star formation using polarized dust emission observations obtained with mm/submm interferometers and single-dish telescopes.
High-mass Star Formation Group
Group Members
Project Researcher (KAKENHI Postdoc) based at NAOJ
Research Interest: Study of the role of magnetic fields in star formation using polarized dust emission observations obtained with mm/submm interferometers and single-dish telescopes.
EACOA Fellow based at NAOJ
Research Interest: study of low- and high-mass star formation, young stellar objects (YSOs) using ALMA and JWST.
Previous Group Members
PhD student at The University of Tokyo -->
Now: CfA Fellow
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA
Research Interest: Study of the early stages of high-mass star formation in infrared dark clouds (IRDCs).
PhD student at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), 1 year NAOJ Overseas Intern --> Now:
Research Interest: formation of multiple systems in low- and high-mass star-forming regions using radio single-dish telescopes and interferometers.
Project Researcher (KAKENHI Postdoc) at NAOJ -->
Now: Postdoctoral Fellow at ASIAA, Taiwan
Research Interest: Study of the importance of the magnetic field in the formation of low- and high-mass stars.
Project Researcher (KAKENHI Postdoc) at NAOJ -->
Now: Senior Solutions Architect at NVIDIA, USA
Research Interest: Simulations of star-forming regions. Now with vast knoledge in machine learning, he is responsible for overseeing the end-to-end architecture of IT solutions.
Close International Collaborators
Students and postdocs in the group usually visit these collaborators abroad.
Chair of the Radio & Geoastronomy Division
Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA
Research Interest: star and protostellar cluster formation, magnetic fields and dust polarization, formation of most massive stars, and protostellar disks, jets and outflows.
Institut de Ciences de l'Espai (ICE, CSIC), Spain
Research Interest: early stages of the star and planet formation process, with special emphasis on the role of magnetic field at different scales.
Operations Astronomer
Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO) and National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Chile/USA
Research Interest: Star formation and magnetic fields using radio single-dish and interferometers.
Close Local Collaborators
With local collaborators, we visit each other very often for scientific discussion.
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), Tokyo
Research Interest: Theory, simulations, and observations in star formation.
Institute of Science Tokyo, Tokyo
Research Interest: Theory and observations in high-mass star formation.
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto
Research Interest: Observational high-mass star formation using interferometers.
The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo
Research Interest: Chemistry in high-mass star-forming regions and instrument development.