- Name: Chiaki KOBAYASHI
- orcid.org/0000-0002-4343-0487
- Status: Professor of Astrophysics; George Darwin Lecturer (2024)
- Institute:
Centre for Astrophysics Research (CAR),
Department of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics (PAM), School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science (SPECS), University of Hertfordshire (Herts)
- Address: Centre for Astrophysics Research, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, UK
- Visiting Senior Scientist, Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU), University of Tokyo, Japan
- Partner Investigator, The ARC Centre of Excellence in All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO3D), Australia
- Academic Visitor, Department of Physics, University of Oxford; and Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge
- Date of birth: 23 Oct 1974
- Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
- Lived in Munich, Germany (2002.4-2005.9), Canberra, Australia (2008.4-2011.10), and in Oxford, UK (2011.10-)
- Education:
1993: Oin Senior High School (girls school), Bunkyo-ku, graduated
1997: Department of Astronomy, School of Science, Univ. of Tokyo, graduated
1997: BSc, Univ. of Tokyo, awarded for a thesis entitled "Metallicity Gradients of Elliptical Galaxies" (Supervised by Prof. Nobuo Arimoto)
1999: MSc, Univ. of Tokyo, awarded for a thesis entitled "Low-Metallicity Inhibition of Type Ia Supernovae and Galactic and Cosmic Chemical Evolution"
(Supervised by Prof. Ken'ichi Nomoto)
2002: PhD, Univ. of Tokyo, awarded for a thesis entitled "Formation and Chemodynamical Evolution of Galaxies"
(Supervised by Prof. Ken'ichi Nomoto)
- Experience:
1999-2002: DC Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
2002-2005: PD Fellow of Max-Planck-Institute for
Astrophysics (MPA), working with Prof. Simon
D. M. White
2005-2008: PD Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS),
working at Division of Theoretical Astronomy,
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)
2008-2011: Stromlo Fellow (5yr academic staff) at
Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (RSAA),
The Australian National University (ANU)
2011-: Appointed as Senior Lecturer (permanent) at University of Hertfordshire (Herts)
2021-2023: Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow
2024: George Darwin Lecturer, Royal Astronomical Society
- Projects:
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