Biographical Description

I was born in Mitoyo city in Kagawa prefecture, Japan in 1978. I lived in the city with my family until I graduated senior high school. Then I moved to Tokyo to take an undergraduate-level education at University of Tokyo, in 1997. After finishing my undergrad school in Department of Physics, I advanced to graduate school in the same department in 2001 to start research in astrophysics. My advisor was Prof. Katsuhiko Sato, who is a well know cosmologist and astrophysicist, and with him I started working on “supernova neutrino.” During my Ph.D. course, I also visited Ohio State University for about a couple of months to extend my research interest. I finished my Ph.D. in 2005. After spending about half a year as a postdoc in Tokyo, I moved to Caltech in 2006 and further extended my research interest by working with various people there. Since 2011, I started a tenure-track faculty job at GRAPPA (Gravitation and Astroparticle Physics Amsterdam) institution, a new center of excellence at University of Amsterdam.

Positions Held

1. -Associate Professor, University of Amsterdam
   

2. Sep 2015–present
   

3. -Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam
   

4. Sep 2011–Aug 2015
   

5. -Senior Research Scholar, California Institute of Technology
   

6. Sep 2009–Aug 2011
   

7. -Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology
   

8. Apr 2006–Aug 2009
   

9. -Japan Society of Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tokyo
   

10. Aug 2005–Mar 2006
    

11. -Graduate Student, University of Tokyo
    

12. Apr 2001–Jul 2005
    

Fellowships, Awards, and Grants

1. -FOM Grant on “The Missing Universe: What is the subatomic constituent of Dark Matter?” (Co-I; €2M)
   

2. Jan 2013–Dec 2018
   

3. -NWO Vidi Grant on “Probing Dark Matter with High-Energy Gamma Rays and Neutrinos” (€800k)
   

4. Oct 2012–Sep 2017
   

5. -JSPS Fellowship for Research Abroad, California Institute of Technology
   

6. Sep 2009–Aug 2011
   

7. -NASA Fermi Grant GI Cycle 2 (#NNX09AT74G) on “Anisotropy and Energy Spectrum of the Gamma-Ray Background as Probes of Dark Matter and Astrophysical Sources” (Co-I; $80k)
   

8. Aug 2009
   

9. -Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists, Inoue Foundation for Science
   

10. Feb 2007
    

11. -Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Prize Fellowship in Theoretical Physics, California Institute of Technology
    

12. Apr 2006–Aug 2009
    

13. -JSPS Research Fellowship, University of Tokyo
    

14. Apr 2003–Mar 2006