Taishi Katsuragawa's Webpage

Name

Taishi Katsuragawa (桂川 大志)

Date of Birth

November 24, 1989

Place of Birth

Tajimi City, Gifu, Japanese

Nationality

Japanese

Language

Japanese (native): English (proficient): Spanish (basic): Chinese (basic)

Certifications

High School Specialized Teaching License (Science): Driver License

Hobbies and Interests

Cooking: Food culture: Biology

April 2012 to March 2017

Division of Particle and Astrophysical Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan (Website)

Doctor of Science (Ph.D.)

• Thesis title: "Study on Dark Matter Candidate in F(R) Gravity Theory"
• Supervisor: Prof. Shin'ichi Nojiri

Master of Science

• Thesis title: "Black Hole Solution and Entropy in Bigravity Theory"
• Supervisor: Prof. Shin'ichi Nojiri

April 2008 to March 2012

Department of Physics, School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan

Bachelor of Science

• Thesis title: N/A (Report Submission and Interview)
• Supervisor: Prof. Shin'ichi Nojiri

April 2005 to March 2008

Gifu Kita High School, Japan (Website)

Other Academic Certificate

January 2013 to March 2017

The Leadership Development Program for Space Exploration and Research, Nagoya University Leading Graduate Schools (LGS) Programs (Website), directed by JSPS (Program for Leading Graduate Schools)

• Scholarship : April 1, 2014 - March 31, 2015
• Research Assistant: January 1, 2013 - March 31, 2014

December 2019 to Present

Associate Professor at Institute of Astrophysics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China

September 2017 to August 2019

Postdoctoral Research Fellow of "International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program" at Institute of Astrophysics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China

April 2017 to August 2017

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Center for Theoretical Studies, Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe (KMI), Nagoya University, Japan (Website)

April 2015 to March 2017

Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (DC2) of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Nagoya University, Japan (Fellowship Categories:DC2)

Internship

January 2016 to February 2016

Advanced Technology R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electric, Japan (Website)

• Period: January 18, 2016 - February 26, 2016
• Supported by LGS program at Nagoya University

Lectures in Central China Normal University, China

Second Semester in 2024/2025 (from February 2024 to June 2024)

• "General Relativity and Cosmology (广义相对论与宇宙学)" , undergraduate course
• "Frontier of Early Universe (早期宇宙前沿选讲)" , graduate course

First Semester in 2024/2025 (from September 2024 to January 2025)

• "General Relativity (广义相对论)" , graduate course

Invited Lecture/Seminar

April 2019

• Lecture "Japanese Food and Culture" as a part of lecture series of "Japanese Business Manner and Culture", Central China Normal University, China

September 2018

• Lecture "Japanese Food and Culture" as a part of lecture series of "Japanese Business Manner and Culture", Central China Normal University, China

April 2018

• Lecture "Japanese Food and Culture" as a part of lecture series of "Japanese Business Manner and Culture", Central China Normal University, China

February 2018

• Leadership Development Seminar "Surviving as a Postdoc: from My Experience in LGS Program" (Website in English, ポスドクとして生きる：LGSプログラムでの経験から学んだこと(学生主催企画) in Japanese), Leading Graduate School, Nagoya University, Japan

Workshop/Conference Organizer

November 2023

Chair of organizing committee of "International Conference on Modified Gravity 2023 (MOGRA 2023)" (Website)

• Period: November 18 - 20, 2023
• Place: Junyi Dynasty Hotel, Wuhan, China
• Supported by the Institute of Astrophysics at Central China Normal University. (Website)

August 2018

Co-chair of organizing committee of "International Conference on Modified Gravity 2018 (MOGRA 2018)" (Website)

• Period: August 8 - 10, 2018
• Place: KMI Symposia, Nagoya University, Japan
• Supported by the Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe (KMI) at Nagoya University. (Website)

July 2016

Chief organizer of "The 46th Summer School on Astronomy and Astrophysics" (Website in Japanese)

• Period: July 26 - 29, 2016
• Place: Hotel Marusansou (Website), Nagano, Japan
• Report article in the Nihon Butsuri Gakkaishi (Butsuri) Volume 72 (2017) No.4, (第46回天文・天体物理若手夏の学校開催報告 in Japanese)

For details of MOGRA series, please check For Researcher

Workshop/Conference Session Chair

April 2023

Session Chair in 2023 International Conference of Deep Space Sciences (Website)

• Date: April 25, 2023
• Session: New physics search in Space and Deep Space

March 2019

Session Chair in JPS 2019 Annual (74th) Meeting (Website)

• Date: March 17, 2019
• Sesssion: Cosmic Rays/Astrophysics

Other Academic Activities

November 2020

Guest Editor in Special Issue “Symmetry with Gravity and Particle Theories” (Website)

• Journal: Symmetry, MDPI (Website)

September 2015 to November 2015

Visitor at Institut de Ciencies de l’Espai (ICE), Spain (Website)

• Period: September 10, 2015 - November 2, 2015
• Host Researcher: Prof. Sergei D. Odintsov
• Supported by LGS program at Nagoya University

Outreach

December 2020

Presentation "一般相対性理論じゃない重力理論" (in Japanese), サイエンス夜会(@Sci_eve_talk) on Twitter

• Date: December 17, 2020
• Place: Online
• Information: Announcement on Twitter

August 2017

Poster presentation in "The 7th Networking event for companies and doctorate human resources", Nagoya University, Japan (Website in English, 2017年度（平成29年度）企業と博士人材の交流会 in Japanese)

• Date: August 26, 2017
• Place: Nagoya University

August 2016

Poster presentation in "The 6th Networking event for companies and doctorate human resources", Nagoya University, Japan (Website in English, 2016年度（平成28年度）企業と博士人材の交流会 in Japanese)

• Date: August 27, 2016
• Place: Nagoya University

January 2025

Grand-in-Aid of National Scientific Fundation of China (国家自然科学基金)

• Period: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2027
• Project Title: Early dark energy and Hubble tension in F(R) gravity theory (F(R)引力理论中的早期暗能量和哈勃常数问题)
• Budget Amount: 300,000 CNY

August 2023

High-end Foreign Experts Introduction Program (高端外国专家引进计划)

• Period: September 1, 2023 -
• Project Title: Study on Early Dark Energy and Hubble Tension in F(R) Gravity Theory (F(R)引力理论中的早期暗能量和哈勃常数问题研究)
• Budget Amount: 80,000 CNY

September 2022

Grant-in-Aid of Hubei Province Natural Science Foundation (湖北省自然科学基金)

• Period: September 4, 2022 - September 2024
• Project Number: 2022CFB817
• Budget Amount: 50,000 CNY

May. 2018

The 63rd General Grant-in-Aid of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (中国博士后科学基金第63批面上资助)

• Period: May 4, 2018 -
• Project Number: 2018M632895
• Budget Amount: 50,000 CNY

April 2015

Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow (DC2)

• Period: April 24, 2015 - March 31, 2017
• Project Number: 15J06973
• Budget Amount: 1,900,000 JPY
• Information in detail: KAKEN

September 2017

Post-doctoral Research Fellow/Members of "International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship Program", Central China Normal University, China

March 2017

Doctor of Science (Ph.D.), Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan

March 2017

Completion of LGS Programs, Nagoya University, Japan

August 2016

Oral Presentation Award in "International Workshop Siberian Cosmology Days 2016 (SCD2016)", Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics, Russia (Website)

March 2015

Research Fellowship for Young Scientists of JSPS (April 1, 2015 - March 31, 2017), Japan

March 2014

Master of Science, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan

March 2014

High School Specialized Teaching License (Science), Japan

March 2012

Bachelor of Science, School of Science, Nagoya University, Japan