• Tokyo Institute of Technology, PhD Physics

Professional Appointments

• Professor, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn State, USA; Osaka Univ, Japan; Hebrew Univ, Israel

Long Term Visiting Positions

• Visiting Researcher, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 2008-2009

Honors & Awards

• Vice Chancellor's Medal for Excellence in Research and Scholarship 2014
  ARI Gamma-Ray Burst Research Team
• HEFCE Promising Researcher Fellowship 2008-2009
• Times Higher Education Supplement, Research Project of the Year Award 2007
  LJMU ARI GRB team
• 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
• Golda Meir Postdoctoral Fellow, Golda Meir Foundation
• JSPS Pre-doctoral Fellow, Japan Society for Promotion of Science

Citation Analysis

• Over 100 refereed papers published in international professional journals
  including 8 in Nature and 3 in Science
• Over 10,000 citations, according to Google Scholar
• 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 in UK, USA, Japan, Israel, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Slovenia