Shiho Kobayashi
Academic Background
- Tokyo Institute of Technology
PhD in Physics 1996
Employment
- Reader, Liverpool JMU, UK, 2009-present
- Senior Lecturer, Liverpool
JMU, UK, 2005-2009
- Postdoc, Penn State, USA, 2002 - 2005
- Postdoc, Osaka University, Japan, 1998 - 2002
- Postdoc, Hebrew University, Israel, 1996 - 1998
Long Term Visiting Position
- Visiting Researcher, Hebrew University, Israel,2008-2009
Honors & Awards
- HEFCE Promising Researcher Fellowship 2008-2009
- Times Higher Education Supplement, Research Project of the
Year Award 2007
ARI GRB team of Liverpool JMU
- Bruno Rossi Prize 2007, American Astronomical Society
Neil Gehrels and the NASA Swift team
- ``New Hot Paper'' in the field of Space Science (Zhang et al. 2006)
identified by Thomson Essential Science Indicators.
- Discovery of the first afterglow of short GRBs (Gehrels et
al. 2005, Nature)
ranked as #4 Breakthrough of Year 2005 by the Science Magazine
- JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 1999-2002
- Golda Meir Postdoctoral Fellow, Golda Meir Foundation, 1996-1998
- JSPS Pre-doctoral Fellow, Japan Society for Promotion of Science, 1993-1996
Citation Analysis
- Over 60 refereed papers published in international professional journals
including 4 in Nature and 2 in Scinece
- Over 3000 citations, according to NASA ADS
- In top 50 UK Astronomers (academics) based on citations to
the 1st author papers
the survey of 835 professional UK astronomers(2001-2006)
by Blusin 2007
- Collaborating with over 100 scientists over the world,
including collaborators from UK, USA, Japan, Israel, Italy.