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Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics

B.Sc. in Earth and Planetary Physics (summa cum laude)

High School Diploma

Charged Hazes in Exoplanet Atmospheres

• Supervisors: Shota Notsu and Kazumasa Ohno
• Investigated how electrostatic charging affects haze growth and transmission spectra in exoplanet atmospheres.

Tidal Dissipation in Asynchronous Planetary Systems

• Supervisors: Takato Tokuno and Akihiko Fukui
• Constraining stellar tidal dissipation using the orbital and rotational evolution of close-in planetary systems.

Semiconvection in Gas Giants

• Supervisors: Yubo Su, Ankan Sur, and Adam Burrows
• Studied the evolution of semiconvective regions in giant planets using hydrodynamical simulations.

Supermassive Black Holes and Host Galaxies

• Supervisor: Taro Shimizu and Linda Tacconi
• Estimated galaxy and black-hole masses through spectral energy distribution fitting and related analyses.

Orbital Decay of TOI-263b

• Supervisors: Akihiko Fukui and Norio Narita
• Searched for orbital decay using TESS and ground-based transit observations.

• Masayuki Inai, Kazumasa Ohno, and Shota Notsu, Steepening Optical Slopes in Exoplanet Transmission Spectra with Charged Hazes, submitted to The Astrophysical Journal.

• JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting — Charged Hazes in Exoplanetary Atmospheres

• TDLI ICEPF — The Evolution of Semiconvection in Gas Giants
• Astronomical Society of Japan Fall Meeting — Limiting the Tidal Quality Factors for Asynchronous Star-planet Systems under Magnetic Braking

• Faculty of Science Academic Excellence Award (理学部学修奨励賞), The University of Tokyo
• Summa Cum Laude, Department of Earth and Planetary Physics
• Best Senior Thesis, Department of Earth and Planetary Physics

• Bronze Medal, Japanese Earth Science Olympiad
• Silver Medal, Japanese Geography Olympiad

• Silver Medal, Japanese Geography Olympiad

• University of Toronto Arts & Science Entrance Funds

• Max Planck Gesellschaft Fund
• UTokyo EPS Fund

• IPMU-Princeton Joint Fund

Chief Coordinator, Nada Math and Physics Camp (灘校理数合宿)

• Founded and organized an intensive mathematics and physics excursion program connecting ambitious students with leading researchers and alumni.

Mentor, HAGI Trailblazer Program for Academic Navigation (はぎたん)

• Mentored high-school students and gave lectures on science and critical thinking.

Staff

• Supported participating teams during IPhO 2023.