CV
Education
- Ph.D in Astronomy, Tohoku University, 2017
- Supervisor: Prof. Takashi Ichikawa and Prof. Masayuki Akiyama
- M.S. in Astronomy, Tohoku University, 2014
- Supervisor: Prof. Takashi Ichikawa
- B.S. in Astronomy, Tohoku University, 2012
Work experience
- December 2021 - : Assistant Scientist
- California Institute of Technology/Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC)
- Primary roles
- Grism-Prism Data Processing for Roman Space Telescope
- June 2019 - December 2021: STScI Prize Fellow
- Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore.
- Supervisor: Dr. Stephanie LaMassa
- Duties included:
- 50% functional work for JWST/NIRISS
- 50% independent research
- August 2017 - June 2019: Postdoctoral Scholar
- Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore.
- Supervisor: Dr. Massimo Stiavelli
- Duties included:
- Formation history of massive dead galaxies at z~2 with HST grism data
- Search for bright galaxy candidates in the cosmic reionization era
- 2015 - 2017: Visiting Graduate Researcher
- University of California, Los Angeles.
- Supervisor: Prof. Tommaso Treu and Dr. Louis Abramson
- Duties included:
- Structural analyese of galaxies in the Hubble Frontier Fields
Fellowship Awards
- 2014 - 2017: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), DC1 Fellow
- Annual research grant 900K JPY
- 2014 - 2017: DIARE Doctoral Fellow, Tohoku University
- Annual research grant 600K JPY
- 2012 - 2014: DIARE Master Fellow, Tohoku University
- Annual research grant 100K JPY
Awards and Research Grants
- 2023: The 19th Morita Memorial Award by Tohoku University
- 2020: The STScI Achievement Award
- JWST Masterclass Support Team
- 2019: HST Cycle27 AR program
- “Constraining the QSO Luminosity Function at z~8 by using the HST Legacy Survey Data”, with research grant of 86.7K USD
- 2019: HST Cycle26 Mid-cycle program
- “Is bright galaxy formation different in the epoch of reionization? Confirmation of the brightest candidates at redshift z > 8”, 4 primary orbits, with research grant of 27.8K USD
- 2019: HST Cycle25 program
- “The brightest galaxies in the first 700 Myr: Building Hubble’s legacy of large area IR imaging for JWST and beyond”, 500 pure-parallel orbits
- STScI Galaxy Journal Club Organizer.
- Subaru Telescope, external reviewer.
- NASA FINESST20 ASTRO, reviewer.
- SOC member of STScI workshop, “Multi-object Spectroscopy for Statistical Measures of Galaxy Evolution”.
- STScI Fellowship Selection Committee.
- Japan JWST Cycle 1 Proposal Workshop SOC & Instructor.
- Subaru / TMT Science Book 2020, contributed as a coauthor.
- Journal Referee, ApJ, MNRAS.
- Graduate Student Committee Chair, Tohoku University