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Department of Physics,National Taiwan University

Faculty(by Directory)

Misao Sasaki


Name   佐佐木 節
 Misao Sasaki
Title   Distinguished Chair Professor
Education   Ph.D. in Physics, Kyoto University, Japan (1981)
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E-mail   misao@yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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Experiences
  • April 1981 – March 1983 
    JSPS Junior fellow, Research Institute for Fundamental Physics, Kyoto University
  • April 1983 – July 1983 
    Research associate, Department of Physics, Kyoto University
  • August 1983 – March 1986 
    Assistant professor, Department of Physics, Kyoto University
  • March 1986 – June 1990 
    Associate professor, Research Institute for Theoretical Physics, Hiroshima University
  • June 1990 – March 1991 
    Associate professor, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
  • April 1991 – December 1994 
    Associate professor, Department of Physics, Kyoto University
  • January 1995 – March 2003 
    Professor, Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University
  • April 1999 – March 2000 
    Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics, University of Tokyo
  • September 2002 – October 2002 
    Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, University of Paris VII
  • April 2003 – 
    Professor, Yukawa Instititute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
  • October 2006 – November 2006 
    Visiting Professor, Department of Physics, University of Paris XI
  • August 2008 – August 2011 
    KIAS Scholar, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
  • April 2013 – March 2017 
    Director, Yukawa Instititute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
Awards
  • March 1997
    Chushiro Hayashi Prize, The Astronomical Society of Japan
    (with Hideo Kodama)
  • March 1997
    Ronbun-Sho (Prize for Seminal Papers), The Physical Society of Japan
    (with Takahiro Tanaka, Kazuhiro Yamamoto and Jun’ichi Yokoyama)
  • April 2008
    Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
  • December 2010
    Daiwa Adrian Prize, The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
    (with David Wands et al.)
  • November 2011
    Honorary Professor, Tomsk State Pedagogical University
Research
General Relativity, Cosmology