I am a PhD student working with the Subaru telescope looking for planets outside our solar system to understand how stars and planets form. I have been doing astronomical research for over five years. In 2004, I obtained a masters degree from Waseda University with a thesis about adaptive optics coronagraphic images of T Tauri stars obtained with the Subaru telescope in order to understand the nature of these young stars and their circumstellar structures. I am happy to explain to anybody what all these words mean!

One of my future goals is to find an earth-like planet outside of our solar system. By talking about the current research on star and planet formation conducted with the Subaru telescope, I would like to share my interest and enjoyment of science with students.