About

Name Norita Kawanaka

Degree Ph.D.

Position Postdoctral Researcher

Affiliation ALMA project, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

(mainly working at Theoretical Astrophysics Group, Tokyo Metropolitan University)

Main Interest Astrophysics (especially the phenomena related to black holes, cosmic-rays, etc.)

Positions Held

April 2025 - Postdoctral fellow, Tokyo Metropolitan University

April 2023 - March 2025 Postdoctral fellow, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan / Tokyo Metropolitan University
April 2022 - March 2023 Postdoctral fellow, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
October 2021 - March 2022 Part-time researcher, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
October 2016 - September 2021 Program-specific Associate Professor, Hakubi center, Kyoto University
May 2013 - September 2016 Assistant Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Tokyo
October 2011 - April 2013 Postdoctral fellow, Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
October 2008 - September 2011 Postdoctral fellow, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, KEK
April 2008 - September 2008 Postdoctral fellow, Research Center for the Early Universe, University of Tokyo
April 2005 - March 2008 JSPS Research Fellow (DC1)

Education

March 2008 Ph.D. (Science), Department of Physics and Astronomy, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
March 2005 M.Sc., Department of Physics and Astronomy, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
March 2003 B.Sc., Faculty of Science, Kyoto University

Grant

April 2022 - March 2026 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) "Investigating the Black Hole Formation Mechanism through a Census of Galactic Black Holes" (Grant No. 22K03686)

April 2010 - September 2011 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientist (B) "Cosmic-Ray Electrons and Positrons from High Energy Astrophysical Objects" (Grant No. 22740131)

April 2005 - March 2008 JSPS Research Fellow (JSPS) "Fundamental Physical Processes in a Strong Gravitational Field and their Observational Tests" (Grant No. 05J02193)

Committee

Rironkon Administrative Office, chair (FY2018)

Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) Consortium

Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) Team

JASMINE Consortium (science core member)

Editorial Committee of the Astronomical Herald

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