Elizabeth Tasker
エリザベス・タスカー
elizabeth.tasker@jaxa.jp
ORCID: 0000-0001-6692-612X〒 252-5210

D.o.B: 12th July 1980
Nationality: UK

宇宙科学研究所(ISAS)
宇宙航空研究開発機構(JAXA)

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神奈川県相模原市中央区由野台3-1-1
Employment & Education[2016 - ] 宇宙科学研究所 (ISAS) 宇宙航空研究開発機構 (JAXA)
Associate Professor (准教授)[2011 - 2016] 北海道大学 理学研究院
Assistant Professor (助教)[2009 - 2011] McMaster University, Canada
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) National Postdoctoral Fellow[2006 - 2009] University of Florida, USA
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Theoretical Astrophysics[2005 - 2006] Columbia University in New York City, USA
Postdoctoral Research Assistant[2002 - 2005] University of Oxford, UK
Ph.D. with thesis title ‘Numerical Simulations of the Formation and Evolution of Galaxies’
Recent Papers & Book contributions[2022] Hayabusa2 Asteroid Sample Return Mission: C26 Public relations and outreach from the
Hayabusa2 Project, Yoshikawa, Tasker, Hosoda, Matsuoka, Yokota, Nakazawa, Tsuda,
Elsevier DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-323-99731-7.00026-X[2021] Sample Return Missions: C6 Upcoming Missions, Tasker & Lunine,
Elsevier DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-818330-4.00010-0[2020] “Estimating Planetary Mass with Deep Learning”, The Astronomical Journal, Tasker,
Laneuville & Guttenberg, DOI: 10.1017/S1473550419000326[2020] “Earth-Like: an education & outreach tool for exploring the diversity of planets like ourown”, International Journal of Astrobiology, Tasker, Ishimaru, Guttenberg & Foriel,
DOI: 10.1017/S1473550419000326[2019] “Segmentation Convolution Neural Networks for Automatic Crater Detection on Mars”,
IEEE Journal of Deleted Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, DeLatte,Crites, Gutenberg, Tasker & Yairi, DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2019.2918302
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Teaching Awards[2016, 2015 & 2014] Hokkaido University President’s Award for Education.
[2012 & 2013] Excellent Teacher Award.
Grants[2016 - 2020] Grants-in-Aid for Scienti c Research (Kakenhi / 科研費):
Young Scientist B / 若手研究(B).
Award 4,160,000 yen.
[2014] Suhara Memorial Foundation / 寿原記念財団.
Award 1,000,000 yen.
[2013 - 2016] Ministry of Education Culture, Sports, Science & Technology, Program to
Disseminate Tenure-Track System / 文部科学省 「テニュアトラック普及・定着事業」
Award 15 million yen / year
Books (lead author / editor)[2020] “Planetary Diversity”, AAS-IOP Astronomy (edited volume), Tasker, ISBN:9780750321402[2017] “The Planet Factory”, Bloomsbury Publishing House, Tasker, ISBN: 9781472917744
Selected Outreach Publications[2019] “Unveiling the secrets of a habitable world with JAXA's small-body missions”, NatureAstronomy, Fujimoto & Tasker[2018] “Visiting an asteroid to nd out how life began”, Room Magazine, Yoshikawa & Tasker.
[2018] “Bringing home a piece of our past”, Nature Astronomy, Tasker[2016] “New Missions Mine Asteroid Secrets”, Astronomy Magazine, Tasker[2015] “Stars of the Dead”, Scienti c American, Symons & Tasker

Selected Recent Research & Outreach Talks[2022] “Alien Landscapes”, Forming and Exploring Habitable Worlds, Edinburgh[2022] “Virtually Real: Outreach and Networking in virtual reality”, Communicating Astronomy tothe Public (CAP), Sydney[2021] “How unlike Earth are Earth-like planets?”, American Geophysical Union (AGU)[2020] “In search of a second Earth”, Geek Picnic, Moscow, Russia (remote presentation due to
COVID-19).
[2019] “Homes away from Home”, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canadafififi2