Curriculum Vitae --
Shiho Kobayashi
Education
- 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