Kimihiko NAKAJIMA

Hello!

I am a research scientist in Astronomy, an associate professor at Kanazawa Univ.

(Recently moved from: Cosmic history/observational cosmology group @National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)

Young galaxies in the early universe would play an important role in the initial chemical enrichment and cosmic reionization.

I am interested in the properties of such young galaxies in the early phase of galaxy evolution, and observationally address the key questions, e.g., how they form and build stars, chemically-enrich ISM/IGM, and produce energetic photons to drive cosmic reionization when the universe is young.

My expertise includes deep spectroscopy of young, faint galaxies using large telescopes such as JWST, Keck, Subaru and VLT, and photoionization modeling. 

I am a Japanese member of planning for future science programs about Galaxy Formation and Evolution with the flagship international missions such as Thirty Meter Telescope, Habitable Worlds Observatory, Subaru2, Roman Space Telescope, etc.