Kazumasa Kawata

Kazumasa Kawata is an assistant professor at the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) in Kashiwa, Japan, of the University of Tokyo. He received his PhD in 2004 from Konan University, Japan, working on the Tibet ASγ experiment. He was an ICRR postdoctoral researcher and was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science postdoctoral fellow. He was also a member of the Telescope Array experiment and the ALPACA experiment. His research interests include very- and ultra-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy, ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray anisotropy, solar magnetic-field studies, and space weather using cosmic rays.