I am Dr. Masato Kobayashi, a JSPS postdoctoral fellow from University of Cologne, Germany. I am an astrophysicist investigating “star formation” across space and time in the Universe, including the origin of our Solar system.
I try to reveal the lifecycle of “molecular clouds”. Molecular clouds are the formation site of stars and thus they control the star formation history. I conduct supercomputer simulations, semi-analytic theories, and observations to answer these questions, with many international collaborative projects.
Methods
Observations
Observations are important tools for us to access information on physical conditions of various astronomical objects. Photons from the Universe have a wide frequency range, each of which traces different spatial/energy scales in the Universe. In addition, recent cosmic-ray and gravitational wave observations opened up a new research field “multi-messenger astronomy”.
Semi-analytic Theories
Semi-analytic theories are important tools to investigate various conditions in the Universe, while supercomputer simualtions require significant computing time and cannot cover a full range of possible conditions.
Supercomputer Simulations
Supercomputer simulations are powerful tools to investigate what happened in the past in the Universe and what is happening at far distance in the Universe.
Recent works
Downloads
My most updated CV is available here. It contains my education, work experiences, grant histories, talk records, and publication histories.