Hiroshi Nagai
Project Associate Professor, NAOJ ALMA Project
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, NRAO and L. Frattare (STScI).
Research Interest
- AGN jet production, jet physics in connection with high energy emission
- Accretion flow onto the super massive black hole
- Radio source evolution (GPS/CSS/CSO)
- Fast Radio Burst / Cosmic Neutorino / Gravitational Wave
Image Credit: NASA, CXC, GSFC, Stephen Walker, et al.
CV
Career
| 2014 Nov. | Project Associate Professor, ALMA Project, NAOJ |
| 2013 Apr. | Project Assistant Professor, Chile Observatory (ALMA), NAOJ |
| 2011 May. | Postdoc Fellow, ALMA Project, NAOJ |
| 2010 Apr. | Postdoc Fellow, VSOP-2/ASTRO-G Project, ISAS/JAXA |
| 2007 Apr. | Postdoc Fellow, Space VLBI Project, NAOJ |
Professional Qualification
| 2007 Mar. | Ph.D. in Astronomy, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI (2007 March) |
Teaching Experience
| Current | The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, Japan |
| 2019 Nov. | Guest lecturer at Tokyo University of Science, Japan |
| 2019 May. | Guest lecturer at International Christian Univesity, Japan |
| 2012-2018 | Lecturer at Yamanashi University, Japan |
NASA, ESA, S. Baum and C. O'Dea (RIT), R. Perley and W. Cotton (NRAO/AUI/NSF), and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Image Credit: P. Horálek/ESO.
Honors and Awards
- 2020 Breakthough Prize in Fundamental Physics (First Image of a Black Hole)
- 2018(FY2017) NAOJ Director Prize
Realization of ALMA polarization observation and promotion of millimeter/submillimeter polarization observation science
Image Credit: Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.
Media Press Release
- ALMA Achieved Highest Sensitivity Polarimetry in Millimeter Wavelength
- Radio Shadow Reveals Tenuous Cosmic Gas Cloud
- Relativistic Sets from the Super Massive Black Hole in Sombrero Galaxy
- Jets from Super Massive Black Holes Revealed by "Event Horizen Telescope"
- Exact Location of Super Massive Black Hole in M87
ESO/B. Tafreshi (twanight.org)