Prof. Dr. Masaru Shibata
Director at Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
Head of the division Computational Relativistic Astrophysics
Address:
Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik
(Albert-Einstein-Institut)
Am Mühlenberg 1
D-14476 Potsdam
GERMANY
Phone: +49 331 567-7222
Fax: +49 331 567-7298
E-mail: masaru.shibata@aei.mpg.de
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
| Date of birth: | February 4, 1966 |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
Education
| 1994 |
PhD in Physics, Kyoto University, Japan |
| 1989-1993 | Department of Physics, Kyoto University (graduate school) |
| 1985-1989 | Faculty of Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology (undergraduate school) |
Academic Appointments
| 2018- |
Director at Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics |
| 2009-Present | Professor, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Japan |
| 2000-2008 | Associate Professor, Department of Earth Science and Astronomy, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan |
| 1998-2000 | Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA |
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1993-2000 |
Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University, Japan |
Honors, Awards, Memberships, and Professional Activities
| 2025 | Japan’s Medal of Honor (“Shiju-houshou”) |
| 2018 | Nishina Memorial Prize |
| 2013 | International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation, Fellow |
| 2010 | Excellent Young Researchers Prize of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science |
| 2008 | Outstanding Paper Award of the Physical Society of Japan |
| 2003 | Nishinomiya-Yukawa Memorial Prize |