Rate My Professor Shinya Yamada

Shinya Yamada is an Associate Professor in the College of Science, Department of Physics at Rikkyo University, where he has served since 2020. He previously held the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Tokyo Metropolitan University from 2014 to 2020 and served as a Special Postdoctoral Fellow in the Tamagawa group at RIKEN from 2011 to 2014. Yamada earned his Doctor of Science degree from the University of Tokyo, where he also completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in the Department of Physics between 2002 and 2011.

His research focuses on X-ray astronomy, X-ray detectors, and superconducting detectors, with particular interests in black holes and related phenomena in cosmic ray and astrophysics. Yamada contributes to major international projects involving high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy, including observations with the XRISM satellite's Resolve instrument on topics such as supernova remnants, X-ray binaries, and exotic atoms. He teaches courses including Ph.D. thesis research in cosmic rays and planetary physics at the graduate level. Professional Email: null