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National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS)
Associate Professor
Engineering Team Manager / IET-EA Head
Ex NAOJ Legal Representative in Chile
Graduate Institute for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI
Associate Professor
Contacts:
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
2-21-1, Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, JAPAN
Phone: +81-442-34-3782
Phone: +81-422-34-3843 (NAOJ ALMA Admin Office)
E-mail: tetsuhiro.minamidani=AT=nao.ac.jp (please replace "=AT=" to "@")
Radio Astronomy
Giant Molecular Clouds and Star Formation in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies (Magellanic Clouds, etc.)
Development of Millimeter and Submillimeter Receivers
Scientific/Observational Projects
FUGIN (FOREST Unbiased Galactic plane Imaging survey with Nobeyama 45-m telescope)
Studies of Dust and Gas in the Magellanic Clouds
Submillimeter Observations of the Magellanic Clouds
ASTE Imaging Surveys of Dense Molecular Medium in Nearby Star-Forming Galaxies
Development/Telescope Projects
ALMA
Engineering Team Manager / IET-EA Head (2026-Present)
Deputy Engineering Team Manager (2025)
ALMA Band 8v2 Receiver Upgrade Project (2023-Present)
Development of the FOREST (FOur-beam REceiver System on the 45m-Telescope) receiver
Leader (2013-2016)
Development of the New TES Bolometer Camera for the ASTE telescope
co-PI (2011-2013)
Member (2008-2013)
ASTE: Atacama Submillimeter Telescope Experiment
ASTE Project Manager (2022 - 2024)
Deputy Operation Manager (2011-2013)
Tomakomai 11m telescope (2007-2013)
NANTEN2 Project (2002 - 2007)
PhD thesis
"An Observational Study based on the 1.1-mm Continuum Survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud", Tatsuya TAKEKOSHI, Hokkaido University, March 2013
"An observational study of molecular clouds in the outer Galaxy with the Nobeyama 45-m radio telescope", Mitsuhiro MATSUO, Kagoshima University, March, 2017 (co-supervisor)
Master thesis
Kosuke FUJII, University of Tokyo (co-supervisor)
Junki KIZAWA, Osaka Prefecture University (co-supervisor)
Tatsuya TAKEKOSHI, Hokkaido University
Lectures/Teaching
2024
Lecturer: "Introduction to Radio Astronomy Instrumentation and Observations" (SOKENDAI)
2018
Lecturer: "Radio Astronomy I" & "Radio Astronomy II" (SOKENDAI Spring School)
For undergraduate students in science course
2010 - 2011
Instructor: "Laboratory Experiment in Natural Sciences" (Hokkaido University)
For freshmen in science course
Lecturer: "The Magellanic Clouds, Neighbor Galaxies" (Hokkaido University)
Lectured as a part of "Introduction to Cosmosciences" for undergraduate students in any majors
2009 - 2010
Instructor: "Laboratory Experiment in Natural Sciences" (Hokkaido University)
For freshmen in science course
Lecturer: "The Magellanic Clouds, Neighbor Galaxies" (Hokkaido University)
Lectured as a part of "Introduction to Cosmosciences" for undergraduate students in any majors
2008 - 2009
Instructor: "Laboratory Experiment in Natural Sciences" (Hokkaido University)
For freshmen in science course
2007 - 2008
Instructor: "Laboratory Experiment in Natural Sciences" (Hokkaido University)
For freshmen in science course