Masahiro Takada

Masahiro Takada is Deputy Director and Professor at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, The University of Tokyo. His main research area is cosmology. Takada is particularly interested in using galaxy survey data, especially data from the 8.2m Subaru Telescope, to address fundamental questions in cosmology, such as how has the universe evolved from the beginning (inflation) to today? What is the physics of inflation? What is the nature of dark matter, and what is the nature of dark energy? Large-scale structure probes such as weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering, measured from wide-area galaxy surveys, allows researchers to measure the cosmological distances and the growth history of cosmic structures, which in turn allow Takada and his collaborators to address the fundamental questions mentioned above. Takada hopes to develop an optimal method, also combined with machine learning and AI, to extract the maximum cosmological information from large-scale structure observables, and is motivated to make the best contribution to the progress of cosmology and physics.