News & Updates

I have received the Yoshinori Ohsumi Award for Fundamental Research from Tokyo Institute of Technology, for my project 'How to Form the Most Massive Stars.'

I've received the Young Researcher Encouragement Award from School of Science, Tokyo Tech for my project 'Exploring Massive Star Formation through Theory and Observation.'

The press release on our recent ApJL paper was issued from Niigata Univ (Japanese only).
"The Detection of Hot Molecular Cores in the Small Magellanic Cloud" (first author: T. Shimonishi).

Our paper on the first detections of hot molecular cloud cores in the Small Magellanic Clouds was featured by AAS Nova.
"The Detection of Hot Molecular Cores in the Small Magellanic Cloud" (first author: T. Shimonishi).

I moved to EPS department at Tokyo Tech.

Our paper titled "Supersonic Expansion of the Bipolar H II Region Sh2-106: A 3500 Year Old Explosion?" (first author: J. Bally) was featured on AAS Nova.

I moved to CASA at CU Boulder, working remotely from Tokyo, Japan.

[July, 2021: I moved to Boulder]

The press release on our ApJL paper was issued from NAOJ-ALMA and RIKEN
"Salt, Hot Water, and Silicon Compounds Tracing Massive Twin Disks"
(also featured on Sci-News, ROOM, IFL Science, etc.)

Our preprint titled "Salt, Hot Water, and Silicon Compounds Tracing Massive Twin Disks" was featured on astrobites and AAS Nova.

I finished the job assignment at Osaka University, and moved the working place to ALMA Project, NAOJ, Tokyo.

Our ApJL paper titled "Discovery of a Photoionized Bipolar Outflow toward the Massive Protostar G45.47+0.05" was highlighted by RIKEN [link].

We published a press release from RIKEN [en/jp], Osaka Univ., and ALMA on the results of our Nature Astronomy paper titled “Dynamics of a Massive Binary at Birth” (first author: Y. Zhang).

I attended  the Interdisciplinary event "academist PRIZE vol 2", and won the academist award (2nd place) in the presentation competition.

We published a press release from NASA on the results of our ApJ paper titled “The SOFIA Massive (SOMA) Star Formation Survey: I. Overview and First Results” (first author: J. M. De Buizer).

I moved out from University of Florida, and joined Theoretical Astrophysics Group, Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University.