Takanori Sakamoto

Present Position

Brief Bio

• 2007 September-Present: CRESST/UMBC Research Associate
  
• 2004 October-2007 September: NASA Postdoctoral Program
  
• 2004 June-2004 September: Postdoc researcher at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN; Cosmic Radiation Laboratory)
  
• 2004 April-2004 June: Postdoc researcher at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Kawai laboratory)
  

Educational Background

• 2004 PhD (Physics), Tokyo Institute of Technology, "Spectral Characteristics of X-ray Flashes and X-ray Rich Gamma-ray Bursts Observed by HETE-2"
  
• 2001 MS (Physics), Tokyo University of Science, "Performance of the one dimentional multi-channel array of the CdTe hard X-ray detectors"
  
• 1999 BS (Physics), Tokyo University of Science
  
• 1997 BE (Mechanical Engineering), Shibaura Institute of Technology
  

Research Interests

• Gamma-ray burst (GRB)
  

Current Projects

• Goddard Robotic Telescope (GRT)
  
• Screeing high redshift GRBs using the Swift/BAT data
  
• Estimating Epeak from the Swift/BAT data
  
• X-ray afterglow properties of the Swift short GRBs
  
• Identify the nature of the Swift short GRB 050925 (INTEGRAL AO-5 key program)
  

Selected Publications

Publications at the ADS website.