Welcome
to RIKEN Astrophysical Big Bang Laboratory
長瀧天体ビックバン研究室へようこそ
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Shigehiro (Hiro) Nagataki
Chief Scientist
Research Interests
• Supernovae
• Gamma Ray Bursts
• Ultra High-energy Cosmic Rays
Email: shigehiro.nagataki
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Akira Mizuta
Research Scientist
Research Interests
• High Energy Astrophysics Bursts
• Gamma Ray Bursts
• Active Galactic Nuclei Jets
• Numerical Hydordynamics
Email: akira.mizuta
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Ryo Higuchi
Special Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Interests
• UHECR, galactic
• magnetic field
• galaxy cluster formation
Email: ryo.higuchi
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Akira Dohi
Special Postdoctoral Researcher
Homepage
Research Interests
• X-ray burst
• Physics of neutron stars
Email: akira.dohi
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Ryosuke Hirai
Special Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Interests
• Stellar and binary evolution
• Supernova explosions
• Few-body dynamics
Email:ryosuke.hirai
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Hirotaka Ito
Research Scientist
Research Interests
• Gamma Ray Bursts
• Active Galactic Nuclei
Email: hirotaka.ito
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* Please add _at_riken.jp to the email addresses
Visiting Scientists
Maxim Barkov
Russian Academy of Sciences
Staff Scientist
Research Interests
• High-energy astro objects
• MHD simulations
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Yohei Kawazura
Tohoku University
Assistant professor
Research Interests
• Plasma physics
• Kinetic turbulence simulation
• Accretion disk
• Analytical mechanics of plasmas
Email:yohei.kawazura
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Haoning He
Purple Mountain Observatory
Associate Professor
Research Interests
• High energy astrophysics
Email: haoning.he
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Oliver Just
GSI
Researcher
Research Interests
• Neutron-Star Mergers
• Core-Collapse Supernovae
• Neutrino Transport
Email: oliver.just
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Noemie Globus
New York University/Flatiron Institute
Research Interests
• Black hole jets
• Multi-messenger astroparticle physics
• Origin of the biological homochirality
Email: noemie.globus
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Atsushi Tamii
Visiting Scientist
Research Interests
• Nuclear reaction experiment
• Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray
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Yuuki Takei
Visiting Scientist
Research Interests
• radiation mechnism of supernova explosion
• propagation of short gamma-ray burst
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Jirong Mao
Yunnan Observatory
Professor
Research Interests
• Gamma Ray Bursts
• Explosive nucleosynthesis
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Masaomi Ono
Research Scientist
Research Interests
• Supernovae
• Explosive nucleosynthesis
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Sudipta Hensh
JSPS postdoc fellow
Osaka Univ.
Research Interests
• Numerical Relativity
• Compact Binary Merger
• Neutrino Transport
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Ataru Tanikawa
Associate Professor
Fukui Prefectural Univ.
Research Interests
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Nobuya Nishimura
Research Scientist
Homepage
Research Interests
• Nucleosynthesis
• Galactic Chemical Evolution
• Nuclear Astrophysics
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Hajime Sotani
Research Scientist
Research Interests
• Physics of neutron stars
• Gravitational waves
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Eiji Kido
Research Scientist
Research Interests
• Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
Email: eiji.kido
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Yi Hua Lam
Associate Research Fellow and Associate Professor
Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Research Interests
• Type-I X-ray Bursts
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Past Members
Alexey Tolstov
Private Company
Homepage
Research Interests
• Supernovae
• Radiative Transfer
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Maria G. Dainotti
NAOJ
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
• Gamma Ray Bursts
• Cosmology
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Yuto Teraki
National Institute of
Technology, Asahikawa
College
Lecturer
Research Interests
• Radiation mechanisms in
High-energy astro objects
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Tomohide Wada
Tohoku University
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
• Pulsar
• MHD, PIC, N-body
simulation
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Annop Wongwathanarat
Private Company
Research Interests
• Core collapse supernovae
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Jin Matsumoto
Keio Univ.
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
• Astrophysical Jets
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Herman (S.-H.) Lee
Lecturer
Kyoto University
Homepage
Research Interests
• Supernova Remnants
• Galactic Cosmic Rays
Email: shiu-hang.lee
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Tomoya Takiwaki
NAOJ
Associate Professor
Homepage
Research Interests
• Core collapse supernovae
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Toshio Terasawa
University of Tokyo
Emeritus Professor
Research Interests
• Observational and theoretical studies on
coherent radiation processes in pulars
and fast radio bursts
• Particle acceleration mechanisms
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Masanori Arakawa
Private Company
Research Interests
• Supernova remnants
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Donald C. Warren
Aerospace, Physics And Space Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology
Research Interests
• Supernova Remnants
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Gilles Ferrand
University of Manitoba
Adjunct Professor
Homepage
Research Interests
• Supernova Remnants
• Galactic Cosmic Rays
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Susumu Inoue
Tokyo Metropolitan Public University Corporation
PD
Research Interests
• High energy astrophysics
• Observational cosmology
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Yuta Sekino
Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Interests
• Ultracold atoms
• Superfluids
• Transport phenomena
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Takatoshi Ko
Junior Research Associate
Research Interests
• Supernovae
• Binary star
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Ankit Kumar
JSPS PD
Research Interests
• Neutron Star Physics
• Gravitational Waves
• EOS of Dense Matter
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Past iTHES-CC Members
Akinori Tanaka
RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence
Project (AIP)
Research Scientist
Research Interests
• String Theory
• AdS/CFT Correspondence
Email: akinori.tanaka
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Yuki Yokokura
iTHEMS, RIKEN
Special Postdoctoral Researcher
Research Interests
• Quantum Gravity and
String theory
• Gravity and Black Hole
• Thermodynamics
Email: yuki.yokokura
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Masaru Hongo
Niigata Univ.
Assistant Professor
Homepage
Email: masaru.hongo
Research Interests
• Hydrodynamics and non-equilibrium
statistical mechanics
• Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) created in heavy-ion
collisions
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Visitors
Andrea Boria
Jagellonian Univ., Poland
Period: Jul. - Aug. 2014,
Jan. 2014
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Haoning He
University of California
Period: Nov. - Dec. 2014
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Shin-ichiro Fujimoto
National Institute of
Technology, Kumamoto
College
Period:
Jun. 2015 - Mar. 2016
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Zhaoming Gan
Shanghai Astronomical
Observatory, CAS
Period:
Sep. 2016 - Oct. 2016
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Sarira Sahu
JSPS invitational Fellow
Instituto de Ciencias
Nucleares (ICN)
Universidad Nacional
Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
Associate professor
Period: Apr. 2017 - Feb. 2018
Research Interests
• Astroparticle Physics (High energy neutrino,
High energy Blazars)
• Finite Temperature Field Theory
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Tyler Parsotan
Oregon State University
Period: Jun. - Aug. 2017
Research Interests
• Gamma Ray Bursts
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Camilia Demidem
JSPS Summer Program Fellow
AstroParticle & Cosmology
laboratory (APC)
Paris Institute of Astrophysics (IAP)
Period: Jun. - Aug. 2018
Research Interests
• Particle acceleration in shocks & turbulent flows
• Relativistic MHD, hybrid MHD-PIC simulations
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Lei Feng
Purple Mountain Observatory
Period: Jul. - Aug. 2018
Research Interests
• Dark matter indirect detection
and Astroparticle physics
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YunFeng Liang
Purple Mountain Observatory
Period: Jul. - Aug. 2018
Research Interests
• High energy astrophysics and
Dark matter indirect detection
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Ziqing Xia
Purple Mountain Observatory
Period: Aug. 2018
Research Interests
• Dark matter (WIMPs, ALPs) indirect
detection, Gamma-ray data analysis,
and High energy astrophysics
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Noemie Globus
New York University/Flatiron Institute
Period: July - Aug. 2019
Research Interests
• Black hole jets
• Multi-messenger astroparticle physics
• Origin of the biological homochirality
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Group Photo
Lab members (2023)
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Lab members (2022)
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Lab members (2021)
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Lab members (2020)
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Lab members, Donald Warren (iTHEMS), Herman Lee (Kyoto U.) and Akira Dohi (Kyusyu U.) taken at RIKEN on 11/7/2019
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Lab members, Donald Warren (iTHEMS), and Herman Lee (Kyoto U.) taken at RIKEN on 11/7/2019
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Lab members, Akira Mizuta (Computational Astrophysics Lab), Donald Warren (iTHEMS), and Masamune Oguri (Visitor) taken at RIKEN on 4/6/2018
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Lab members and Toshio Terasawa (iTHES), Sarira Sahu (Visitor) taken at RIKEN on 5/9/2017
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Lab members and Toshio Terasawa (iTHES), iTHES-CC members, Sarira Sahu (Visitor) taken at RIKEN on 4/7/2017
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Lab members and Toshio Terasawa (iTHES), Zhaoming Gan (Visitor), Amir Levinson (Visitor) taken at RIKEN on 10/3/2016
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Lab members and Akira Mizuta (Computational Astrophysics lab) taken at RIKEN on 9/30/2015
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Lab members and Haoning He (Visitor),
taken at RIKEN on 12/17/2014
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Lab members and 4 secretaries,
taken at RIKEN on 8/1/2013
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Credits for
background and slide show images:
S. Brunier, O. Krause, JPL/Caltech, NASA, NAOJ, ESA/Hubble
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