Profile

Yoshiaki Kato, PhD

Affiliation: RIKEN

Position: Contract Researcher

Research Interests: Accretion disks and jets around black holes and neutron stars, Solar atmosphere, Waves and oscillations in astrophysical plasma.

Speciality: Computational Astrophysics, Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), Radiative processes in Astrophysics, Radiation Magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD)

Contact address: Computational Astrophysics Laboratory, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan

Professional Experiences

  • Contract Researcher, RIKEN, Auguest 2017 - Current

  • Specially Appointed Researcher, Chiba Univresity, March 2017 - July 2017

  • Research Fellow, Institue of Theoretical Astrophysics (ITA), University of Oslo, April 2014 - Feburary 2017

  • Project Researcher, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), April 2011 - March 2014

  • Invited Researcher, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), April 2008 - March 2011

  • Research Fellow, Center of Computational Science, University of Tsukuba, April 2005 - March 2008

  • Research Assistant, Yukawa Institue for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, April 2004 - March 2005

Pedagogical Experiences

  • Lecturer, Department of Engineering, Kanagawa University, April 2011 - March 2012

  • Teaching Assisttant, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, April 2002 - March 2004

  • Teaching Assisttant, Center for Frontier Science, Chiba University, April 2001 - March 2002

  • Student Mentor, Center for Information Processing, Chiba University, April 1999 - March 2001

  • Research Assistant, Yukawa Institue for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, April 2004 - March 2005