Masanori Iye
NAOJ, Japan
Biography
Masanori Iye has done his PhD in Astronomy from University of Tokyo in 1978. He started his career as Research Associate in University of Tokyo and was promoted to an Associate Professor at Tokyo Astronomical Observatory of University of Tokyo in 1986. He became a Professor at National Astronomical Observatory in 1993 and retired in 2014. He is now serving for NAOJ as the Japan Representative of TMT International Observatory Governing Board. During his career, he has served as a Project Scientist to design and construct 8 m Subaru Telescope at Maunakea Hawaii and has developed a laser guide star adaptive optics system to enhance its vision. His group found a galaxy at 13 billion light years away in 2006 and identified the epoch of cosmic re-ionization. He was awarded the Japan Academy Prize (2013), Imperial Medal with Purple Ribbon (2011), Toray Science and Technology Prize (2011), Nishina Memorial Prize (2008) and many other honors.
Abstract
Abstract : Observational cosmology with thirty meter telescope