CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr. Keiichi Umetsu received his PhD in astronomy from Tohoku University, Japan in 2001, and has been a faculty member (2005 - present; tenured since January 2010) at the Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics (ASIAA), Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He is currently a full professor at ASIAA.
Dr. Umetsu is a founding Co-Investigator of the Hubble
Space Telescope Multi-cycle Treasury survey "CLASH" and has led its wide-field weak-lensing follow-up program (e.g., Umetsu, K. et al. 2014, ApJ, 795, 163). He is also a founding Co-Investigator of the ongoing Hubble Treasury program "RELICS" (Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey). He also participates in the Subaru Hyper Suprim-Cam (HSC) survey, J-PAS, XXL, LoCuSS, and AMiBA.
He has lived in Taiwan since June 2001. He enjoys his life in Taipei. The pictures on the right side were taken in Rome on September 26, 2015 on his way back from the CLASH-VLT 2015 meeting in Florence.
EDUCATION
POSITIONS HELD
1998 - 2001
Doctor of Science degree (D.Sc.), Astronomy
Supervisor: Prof. Toshifumi Futamase
1996 - 1998
Master of Science degree (M.Sc.), Astronomy
Supervisor: Prof. Makoto Hattori
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1992 - 1996
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Physics
Supervisor: Prof. Toshifumi Futamase
2014 - present
Research Fellow (Full Professor)
2010 - 2013
Associate Research Fellow with tenure
2008 - 2012
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Adjunct Research Fellow
2006 - 2009
Assistant Research Fellow
2005 - 2006
Faculty Staff Scientist
2001 - 2005
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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