Koji S. Kawabata

Carrier

• Born in Iwate pref. of Japan in 1971
• Studied at Astronomical Institute of Tohoku University (got Ph.D. at Tohoku University in 1999 March)
• PD Fellow at National Astronomical Observatory of Japan in 1999 April - 2003 October
• Research Associate, Faculty of Science, Hiroshima University in 2003 November - 2004 March
• Research Associate, Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center, Hiroshima University in 2004 April - 2007 March
• Assistant Professor, Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center, Hiroshima University in 2007 April - 2009 March
• Associate Professor, Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center, Hiroshima University in 2009 April - 2017 March
• Director and Professor, Hiroshima Astrophysical Science Center, Hiroshima University since 2017 April

Research and Work

• Observational Study of Supernovae, Novae and GRBs
• Observational Astrophysics of Circumstellar Matter

• Promoting SGMAP project (Optical Polarimetric Survey in Northern Hemisphere)
• Cooperating HinOTORI project (Wide-field optical 0.5-m telescope for finding counterpart of future gravitational wave source)
• Cooperating HiZ-GUNDAM project (High-z GRBs for Unveiling the Dark Ages Mission)

• Development of Prompt Observation System for Kanata 1.5-m Telescope
• Application of Polarization Technique to Astronomical Research
• Maintenance of HOWPol
• Development of HONIR
  • Low-resolution spectropolarimeter, HBS (0.91m telescope at Dodaira and 1.88m and 0.91m telescopes at Okayama, NAOJ)
  • Line Polarimeter and Spectrograph, LIPS (2.2m telescpe, Univ. of Hawaii)
  • Faint Object Camera and Spectrograph, FOCAS (Subaru 8.2m telescope, NAOJ)
  • Hiroshima One-shot Wide-field Polarimeter, HOWPol (1.5m Kanata telescope, Hiroshima Univ)
  • Hiroshima Optical and Near-InfraRed Camera, HONIR (1.5m Kanata telescope, Hiroshima Univ)
  • HinOTORI 50cm Telescope in Tibet (Hiroshima Univ/National Astronomical Observatory of China, Chinese Academy of Science)

• Refereed Journal Publications

Other Information

• Under construction

Koji S. Kawabata