Personal Data

Name: SHIBATA MASARU (male)

Date of Birth: February 4, 1966
Nationality: JAPAN
Birth place: Tokyo
Present Address: Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Am Muehlenberg, Potsdam-Golm, 14476, Germany;
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Oiwakecho, Kitashirakawa, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan

Tel: +49-331-567-7218, +81-75-753-7017

FAX: +49-331-567-7298, +81-75-753-7020

e-mail: mshibata -at- aei.mpg.de, mshibata -at- yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Short CV

• January 2018- : Professor, Director, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics at Potsdam-Golm (Albert Einstein Institute)
• January 2009- : Professor, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics
• October 2000-December 2008: Associate Professor, Department of Earth Science and Astronomy, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo Group home page
  
• October 1998-September 2000: Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Relativity Group at UIUC
• June 1993-September 2000: Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University Osaka TAP group home page
• March 1994: Ph.D (Faculty of Science, Kyoto University)
• April 1989-June 1993: Department of Physics, Kyoto University (graduate school) Tentaikaku group home page
  
• April 1985-March 1989: Faculty of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology (undergraduate school)

Awards

• Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial Prize, 2003
• JPS prize to excelent papers, 2008
• FY2009 JSPS prize (2010)
• Fellow of International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation, 2013
• FY2017 Chushiro Hayashi Prize of Astronomical Society of Japan (2018)
• FY2018 Nishina Memorial Prize(2018)

• JSPS grants as PI (recent ones)
  • 2016-2019：JSPS Basic Research Program (A) "Gravitational waves and electromagnetic counterparts from the merger of neutron-star binaries"
  • 2012-2015：JSPS Basic Research Program (A) "Researches for gravitational-wave sources by numerical relativity"
  • 2009-2011：JSPS Basic Research Program (B) "Gravitational waves from binary neutron stars and black-hole neutron star binaries in numerical relativity"
  • 2007-2008：JSPS Basic Research Program (C) "Numerical studies for black hole-neutron star binaries"
  • 2005-2006：JSPS Basic Research Program (C) "Fully general relativistic studies for binary neutron star mergers"
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• Other research grants
  • 2010-2015: Mext Grant for Strategic Program of High-Performance Computing
  • 2015-2019: Mext Grant for priority issue No. 9 to be tackled by post K computer