- Associate Professor, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
Elizabeth Tasker is an astrophysicist at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Tokyo. Her research looks at the formation of planets and stars in simulations of galaxies like our own Milky Way. Elizabeth's popular science book on exoplanets, 'The Planet Factory', will be published by Bloomsbury in September 2017. She keeps her own personal blog as testimony to exactly how confusing life can sometimes get in Japan and can also be found on twitter and Google+.
Experience
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2016–presentAssociate Professor, JAXA
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2011–2016Assistant Professor, Hokkaido University
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2009–2011CITA National Fellow, McMaster University
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2006–2009Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Florida
Education
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2006University of Oxford, D.Phil
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2002Durham University, UK, M.Sci (Hons) Theoretical Physics
Contact Elizabeth for
- General
- Media request
- Speaking request
- Consulting / Advising
- Research collaboration
- Research supervision
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Website
- X (formerly Twitter): @girlandkat
- Article Feed
- ORCID
- Joined
