Investigators - JSWM : Joint Project for Space Weather Modeling

Kanya Kusano

Institute：

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)

Career：

Program Director, Group Leader

Research Topics：

・	Multi-scale simulation
・	Trigger mechanism of solar flares
・	Magnetic helicity in the solar corona
・	Multi-scale dynamics of magnetic reconnection
・	Solar and planetary dynamo
・	Nonlinear magnetohydrodynamics
・	Space climate

Details：

http://www.jamstec.go.jp/less/space_earth/ja/2009/02/kusano.html

Kazunari Shibata

Institute：

Kwasan and Hida Observatories, Kyoto University

Career：

Director, Professor

Research Topics：

・	Solar MHD
・	Solar Flares/Jets
・	Magnetic Reconnection
・	Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
・	Astrophysical Jet
・	Accretion Disk MHD
・	Galactic and Intergalactic MHD

Details：

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~shibata/

Tatsuki Ogino

Institute：

Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory, Nagoya University

Career：

Professor

Research Topics：

・	MHD simulation of interaction between the solar wind and Earth's　magnetosphere
・	Dynamics of planetary magnetosphere
・	Nonlinear phenomena of space plasmas

Details：

http://center.stelab.nagoya-u.ac.jp/member/ogino/

Ryuho Kataoka　(Ph.D)

Institute：

RIKEN

Career：

Special Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Topics：

・	MHD simulation of the solar wind
・	Solar wind-magnetosphere-ionosphere power system
・	Space weather forecast

Details：

http://sites.google.com/site/ryuhokataoka/

Satoshi INOUE　(Ph.D)

Institute：

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)

Career：

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Topics：

・	Research and development of a holistic simulation of space weather
・	Three-dimensional modeling of the solar active region
・	A study of the energy accumulation and release process on the solar active region
・	Nonlinear mangetohydrodynamics

Details：

http://www.jamstec.go.jp/less/space_earth/ja/2009/02/inoue.html

Eiji Asano (Ph.D)

Institute：

Kwasan and Hida Observatories, Kyoto University

Career：

Post-Doctoral fellow

Research Topics：

・	Research and development of a holistic simulation of space weather
・	Solar wind modeling used the observational data
・	Relativistic MHD simulation of the pulsar and magnetar

Details：

http://www.kwasan.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~asanoej/