• 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.