Rate My Professor Chiaki Kobayashi

Chiaki Kobayashi earned her BSc in 1997, MSc in 1999, and PhD in 2002 from the Department of Astronomy at the University of Tokyo. Her doctoral thesis focused on the formation and chemodynamical evolution of galaxies under the supervision of Professor Ken'ichi Nomoto.

She holds the position of Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Hertfordshire. She serves as Visiting Senior Scientist at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU) at the University of Tokyo. Her research centers on galactic chemical evolution, supernovae, and nucleosynthesis. She has held postdoctoral positions at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, as well as a Stromlo Fellowship at the Australian National University. In 2024, she was named George Darwin Lecturer by the Royal Astronomical Society. She leads the Computational Astrophysics Laboratory and participates in international projects including HERMES, WEAVE, and the Subaru Prime Focus Spectrograph.