Oct. 2023 - PhD course, Dept. Space & Climate Physics, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, UK
Apr. 2022 - Aug. 2023 Master course, Depart ment of Astronomy, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan (quitted)
Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2022 Undergraduate course, Department of Astronomy, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2020 Natural Science I, Junior Division, College of Arts and Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2017 Chiba Prefectual Funabashi High School
Mar. 2022 Bachelor of Science ; The University of Tokyo
The cepheid motion and spiral arms explored by near-infrared spectroscopic observations and the Gaia satellite catalogue
Dynamical model fitting to APOGEE observation data using MCMC (emcee/numpyro)
Near-infrared spectral data reduction for Cepheids variable stars
Line-of-sight velocity analysis of Cepheids by near-infrared spectroscopy
Kinematics of spiral arms and the disk substructures in the Milky Way with Gaia data
Funakoshi, Kawata, Sanders, Ciucă, Grand, Zhāng (2025)
Thick-to-thin disc transition and gas disc shrinking induced by the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus merger (arXiv)
Funakoshi, Matsunaga, Kawata, Baba, Taniguchi and Fujii (2024)
Clues to growth and disruption of two neighbouring spiral arms of the Milky Way (arXiv/MNRAS)
Conferences
National Astronomy Meeting 2025 @Durham University, 7-11 Jul. 2025
Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus merger induced thick and thin disc transition revealed by APOGEE and Gaia
Clues to growth and disruption of two neighbouring spiral arms of the Milky Way (poster)
The Dynamic Life of Spiral Arms: Our Galaxy in Motion (3min to inspire competition)
European Astronomical Society 2025 @University College Cork, 23-28 Jun. 2025
Growing and disrupting spiral arms in the Milky Way
Thick and thin disc transition by the ancient Gas-rich merger
Surrey-London Astro Meeting @University College London, 9 Apr. 2025
a link between the Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus merger and thick-thin disc transition
Spring Annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of Japan 2024, Online, 13 Mar. 2024
Clues to growth and disruption of two neighbouring spiral arms of the Milky Way
Milky Way Workshop 2024, Online, 7 Mar. 2024
Clues to growth and disruption of two neighbouring spiral arms of the Milky Way
Surrey-London Astro Meeting @Surrey University, 6 Dec. 2023
Dynamics of spiral arms revealed by Cepheids in the Milky Way
JASMINE Consortium Meeting 2023 @National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 1 Aug. 2023
Dynamics of spiral arms revealed by Cepheids in the Milky Way
Linking the Galactic and Extragalactic Stellar dynamics and stellar populations of the Milky Way and its siblings @Sage Hotel, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, 28 Nov. 2022
Gaia's precise kinematic data exploring stellar spiral arms and their nature
Milky Way Workshop 2022, Online, 7 Nov. 2022
Detection of kinematic ridge structures in the outer edge of the Galactic disk using Cepheids
Autumn Annual meeting of the Astronomical Society of Japan 2022 @ Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, 15 Sep. 2022
Detection of kinematic ridge structures in the outer edge of the Galactic disk using Cepheids
Roadmap: Technical Challenges workshop @University of Cambridge, 15-16 Jul. 2025
ESR School on transferable skills: managing, entrepreneurial and IPR @University of Barcelona, 2-6 Jun. 2025
Galaxy modelling and galactic centre workshop @University of Surrey, 9-13 Dec. 2024 (as a SOC)
MWGaiaDN school: frontiers of stellar evolution @Padova, Astronomical Observatory, 15-17 Oct. 2024 (attended online)
Introduction to Astro-statistics and data visualisation @Dep. of Physics of the University of Coimbra, 9-13 Sep. 2024
The Art of Astrometry and Computation @Lund Observatory, 24-28 Jul. 2024
BRIDGCE-IReNA 2024: Bridging Research in Disciplines of Galactic Chemical Evolution and Nuclear Astrophysics 2024 @ University of Surrey, 8-10 Jul. 2024
MWGaiaDN Introduction School @PLNT Leiden, 29 Jan.-2 Feb. 2024
XXXIV Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics The Local Group as a benchmark for Galaxy Evolution @La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, 8-15 Nov. 2023
Scholarships
UK Research and Innovation, MWGaiaDN (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network)
International Graduate Program for Excellence in Earth-Space Science, Excellence Research Assistants (2022-2023)
Shinnihon Scholarship Foundation (2022-2023)
Japan Student Services Organization (2022-2023)
Teaching Assistant
"Laboratory Experiment in Astronomy" at the Department of Astronomy, The University of Tokyo, 2023
"Seminar on Astronomy" at the Department of Astronomy, The University of Tokyo, 2022
Outreach
UCL JAPAN youth challenge 2025, invited speaker
Galaxy School 2023, Teaching Assistant
Star Workshop 2022, Teaching Assistant
Open Campus 2022, The University of Tokyo, Advice corner for female students, Teaching Assistant Staff
Department of Astronomy Guidance 2021, The University of Tokyo, Student staff
Open Campus 2020, The University of Tokyo