Faculty Members

Professors

Takashi ICHIKAWA

Extragalactic astronomy. In particular, structure of galaxies and cluster of galaxies, observational cosmology, galaxy formation and evolution.

ichikawa_at_astr.tohoku.ac.jp

Toru YAMADA

Extragalactic astronomy.

yamada_at_astr.tohoku.ac.jp

Hideyuki SAIO

Astrophysics. Theoretical study on evolution and pulsation of hydrogen-deficient stars. Nonradial oscillations in magnetic and rotating stars.

saio_at_astr.tohoku.ac.jp

Toshifumi FUTAMASE

Cosmology and general relativity. Theoretical study of general relativistic equations of motion and gravitational waves. Observational cosmology and gravitational lensing. Early universe.

tof_at_astr.tohoku.ac.jp

Masashi CHIBA

Theoretical and observational studies of dynamical structures, formation and evolution of galaxies. Observational cosmology especially with gravitational lesning is one of main theme.

chiba_at_astr.tohoku.ac.jp

Associate Professors

Masafumi NOGUCHI

Extragalactic astronomy. In particular, theoretical studies and numerical simulations on the dynamical aspects of the formation, evolution, and interactions of galaxies.

noguchi_at_astr.tohoku.ac.jp

Masayuki AKIYAMA

Extragalactic Astronomy. Observational studies of formation and evolution of galaxies and super-massive black holes. Development of infrared instruments to observe distant galaxies.

akiyama_at_astr.tohoku.ac.jp

Umin LEE

Stellar physics. Theoretical investigation of pulsating stars; the Sun, Jupiter, and neutron stars. In particular, the effects of rotation.

lee_at_astr.tohoku.ac.jp

Makoto HATTORI

Origin and evolution of magnetic field, high energy particles and dust in the universe. Unveiling genesis of the universe by polarization observations of cosmic microwave background.

hattori_at_astr.tohoku.ac.jp

Takashi MURAYAMA

Observational studies on active galactic nuclei and extra-galactic objects. In particular, structure of emission line regions and dusty tori in active galactic nuclei.

murayama_at_astr.tohoku.ac.jp

Takahiro MORISHIMA

Origin and evolution of magnetic field, high energy particles and dust in the universe. Unveiling genesis of the universe by polarization observations of cosmic microwave background.

moris_at_astr.tohoku.ac.jp

Takafumi OOTSUBO

Origin and evolution of magnetic field, high energy particles and dust in the universe. Unveiling genesis of the universe by polarization observations of cosmic microwave background.

ootsubo_at_astr.tohoku.ac.jp

Assistant professors

Shijun YOSHIDA

yoshida_at_astr.tohoku.ac.jp

Masaru KAJISAWA

Extragalactic Astronomy. Observational studies of formation and evolution of galaxies. In paticular, history of star formation and mass assembly of galaxies.

kajisawa_at_astr.tohoku.ac.jp

Yousuke ITO

Gravitational wave astronomy: Data analysis on continuous gravitational waves from, e.g., pulsars. General Relativity: Equations of motion for relativistic compact binaries, post-Newtonian approximation.

yousuke_at_astr.tohoku.ac.jp

Tomohiro YOSHIKAWA

Extragalactic Astronomy: observational studies of formation and evolution of galaxies. Development of control software system for infrared instrument and telescope.

tomohiro_at_astr.tohoku.ac.jp

PD Researchers

Chihiro TOKOKU

tokoku_at_astr.tohoku.ac.jp

Atsushi NISHIZAWA

Observational Cosmology: Probing structure formation history and nature of dark sectors through the data analysis and simulation of weak lensing, CMB, large-scale structure.

nishizawa_at_astr.tohoku.ac.jp

Mikito TANAKA

Galactic Archaeology: I am interested in a wide range of nearby galactic astrophysical topics, from improving our understanding of fundamental galaxy evolution to studying stellar halos, globular clusters systems and dwarf galaxies.

mikito_at_astr.tohoku.ac.jp

Jean COUPON

Observational Cosmology. Photometric redshift.

coupon_at_astr.tohoku.ac.jp