Takaharu Otsuka#
| Membership Number: | 4046 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | JAPAN |
| Homepage(s): | http://tkynt2.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~otsuka |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 - 2019 Guest Professor, University of Leuven (KU Leuven)
- 2011 - 2017 Member, Science Council of Japan
- 2008 - 2010 Chair, Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo
- 2005 - present Adjunct Professor, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University
- 2005 - present Director, Center for Nuclear Study, The University of Tokyo
- 1997 - present Professor, Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo
- 1994 - 2005 Senior Guest Researcher, RIKEN
- 1987 - 1996 Associate Professor, Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo
- 1983 - 1985 Postdoctoral researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory (on leave from Japan Atomic Energy Res. Inst.)
- 1979 - 86 Researcher, Division of Physics, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute
Fields of Scholarship
- Theoretical nuclear physics
- Nuclear shell model
- Nuclear collective states
- Structure and reactions of exotic nuclei
- Large scale nuclear structure calculations with conventional shell model and Monte Carlo Shell Model
- Application of nuclear structure physics to nuclear technology, particularly, nuclear transmutation for radioactive waste
- Quantum chaos
Honours and Awards
- 1991 The 6th Nishinomiya Yukawa Memorial Award
- 2011 Science Council of Japan, Member
- 2012 GENCO prize
- 2013 American Physical Society fellow
