Akimasa Kataoka
Assistant Professor
Division of Science, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail:akimasa.kataoka@nao.ac.jp
ORCiD:0000-0003-4562-4119
Website:https://sci.nao.ac.jp/MEMBER/kataoka/
Phone: (+81) 0422-34-3745
Address: Osawa 2-21-1, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, JapanEMPLOYMENTAssistant Professor, Division of Science, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
2019-present
Assistant Professor, Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
2017-present
Assistant Professor, Division of Theoretical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan2017-2019
NAOJ Fellow
Division of Theoretical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Apr. 2017- Nov. 2017
Humboldt Research Fellow
Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, Center for Astronomy, Heidelberg University
Dec. 2016 - Mar. 2017
JSPS Postdoctral Fellowship for Research Abroad
Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, Center for Astronomy, Heidelberg University
Apr. 2015 - Nov. 2016
JSPS Research Fellow (PD)
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Oct. 2014 - Mar. 2015
JSPS Research Fellow (DC1)
Division of Theoretical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Apr. 2012 - Sep. 2014

EDUCATION
Ph.D., Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
M.S., Department of Astronomy, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
B.A., Faculty of Science, Kyoto University

Apr. 2012 - Sep. 2014
Apr. 2010 - Mar. 2012
Apr. 2006 - Mar. 2010

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Planet formation, protoplanetary disks, radio observations, mechanical and optical properties of dust aggregates

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPSThe International Astronomical Union (IAU)
Udenkon (Japan Radio Astronomy Forum)
Humboldtian
Rironkon (organization of theoretical astrophysicists in Japan)
The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences
The Astronomical Society of Japan2022-present
2020-present
2017-present
2013-present
2013-present
2010-present

GRANTSJSPS KAKNHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 22K03680, 3,000,000 yen for 5 years
Apr. 2022- Mar. 2027
JSPS KAKNHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (research area proposal type),
Apr. 2019- Mar.
19H05088, 2,000,000 yen for 2 years
2023
JSPS KAKNHI Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, 18K13590, 3,300,000 yen for 3 years
Apr. 2018- Mar. 2021
JSPS KAKNHI Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), 15K17606, 3,100,000 yen for 3 years
Apr. 2015- Mar. 2018

AWARDS
25th Astronomical Society of Japan Young Astronomer Award 2020
The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences Best Researcher Award 2020
Young Scientist Award at Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics
Nagakura research award of SOKENDAI
the President Prize of SOKENDAI
the best presentation prize at the Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences

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2016
2015
2014
2013

REFEREES AND ACADEMIC SERVICES
Academic referee for
The Astrophysical Journal, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Monthly Notice of Royal Astronomical Society, andPublication of Astronomical Society of Japan
Science assessor / reviewer
MSCA4Ukraine reviewer through Humboldt foundation
Subaru telescope science assessor
JCMT science assessor
Science assessor of ALMA Cycle 6-7, Category 4
Contribution to community
Committee member of Research Cordination Committee, NAOJ
Committee member of Rironkon
member of NAOJ seminar committee
Committee members for thesis
Committee member for the master thesis by Shiori Koshisaka, SOKENDAI
Committee member for the Ph.D. thesis by Jungha Kim, SOKENDAI

2023

2018-20192022-present
Dec. 2018-Nov. 20202018-2021
2023
2020

TEACHING
Invited lecture at Kobe University, Planet formation
Lecture at SOKENDAI, Basic seminar (fluid dynamics, mainly for master course students)

2022
2018-2019

SUPERVISING EXPERIENCES
students
Kiyoaki Doi (5 year Ph.D. course of SOKENDAI)
2019-present
postdocs
Takahiro Ueda (JSPS fellowship), mass estimate of protoplanetary disks
2019-2023
other deeply involved early-career postdocs/students
Misako Tatsuuma (supervised the Ph.D. thesis on N-body simulations of dust aggregates)
2017-present
Tomohiro Mori (supervised the Ph.D. thesis on ALMA polarimetric observations)2017-2018
Satoshi Ohashi (collabolations on ALMA polarimetric observations)
2017Adriana Pohl (collabolations on a project of dust coagulation and polarimetric observations at Heidelberg)
2015-2017
co-supervised students
Hideaki Takemura (official co-supervisor at SOKENDAI)
2018-2023
Tomohiro Yoshida (official co-supervisor at SOKENDAI)
2021-present
academic assistantYuko Matsushita
Apr. 2021 - present
Seongjoong Kim
Apr. 2020 - Mar. 2021

REFERENCES
Professor Emeritus Kohji Tomisaka
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (retired)E-mail:kohji.tomisaka@nao.ac.jp
Prof. Hidekazu Tanaka
Tohoku University
Website:https://jupiter.astr.tohoku.ac.jp/~hidekazu/
E-mail:hidekazu@astr.tohoku.ac.jp
Prof. Dr. Cornelis P. DullemondHeidelberg University
Website:https://www.ita.uni-heidelberg.de/~dullemond/index.shtml?lang=en
E-mail:dullemond@uni-heidelberg.de
Prof. Hideko Nomura

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E-mail:hideko.nomura@nao.ac.jp

CONFERENCE TALKS
Invited talks
1. "Millimeter-wave polarization in protoplanetary disks," Five years after HL Tau, online, Dec 7-11, 2020
2. "Polarized dust emission in protoplanetary disks," Workshop on Polarization in Protoplanetary Disks and Jets,, Sant
Cugat, Spain, May 20-24, 2019
3. "ALMA polarization observations towards protoplanetary disks," Polarimetry in the ALMA era: a new crossroads ofastrophysics, March 25-29th, 2019, NAOJ, Japan
4. "Measuring the grain size and finding the magnetic fields by ALMA polarization”, Planet-Forming Disks, March 4-8th,
2019, Como, Italy
5. "Dust and polarization," SOKENDAI Asia Winter School 2019, February 27th - March 1st, 2019, NAOJ, Japan
6. "mm-wave polarization of protoplanetary disks: alignment of scattering?," Cosmic Dust and Magnetism 2018, October
30 - November 2nd, 2018, KASI, Korea
7. "millimeter-wave polarization as a tool of investigating the planet formation," East-Asia ALMA Science Workshop 2017
- Korea. Nov.27-29,2017, KASI, Daejeon, Korea
8. "millimeter-wave polarization of protoplanetary disks: alignment or scattering?," Submm/mm/cm QUESO Workshop
2017, Oct.25-25,2017, ESO, Garching, Germany
9. "millimeter-wave polarization as a tool of investigating the planet formation," JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2017, May.2025,2017, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan
10. "ALMA revolution on planet formation," Japan-German planet & disk workshop, Sep.25-30, 2016, Beach Hotel
Sunshine, Ishigaki, Japan

PUBLICATION LIST
Refereed papers as first author or led by supervised students or postdocs
1. Ueda, T., Kataoka, A., & Tsukagoshi, T., 2022, "Massive Compact Dust Disk with a Gap around CW Tau Revealed by
ALMA Multiband Observations," The Astrophysical Journal, 930, 56
2. Tatsuuma, M., & Kataoka, A., 2021, "Rotational Disruption of Porous Dust Aggregates due to Gas Flow inProtoplanetary Disks," The Astrophysical Journal, 913, 132
3. Ueda, T., Kataoka, A., Zhang, S., Zhu, Z., Carrasco-González, C., et al., 2021, "Impact of Differential Dust Settling on
the SED and Polarization: Application to the Inner Region of the HL Tau Disk," The Astrophysical Journal, 913, 117
4. Doi, K., & Kataoka, A., 2021, "Estimate on Dust Scale Height from the ALMA Dust Continuum Image of the HD
163296 Protoplanetary Disk," The Astrophysical Journal, 912, 164
5. Mori, T., & Kataoka, A., 2021, "Modeling of the ALMA HL Tau Polarization by Mixture of Grain Alignment and Selfscattering," The Astrophysical Journal, 908, 153
6. Ohashi, S., Kataoka, A., van der Marel, N., Hull, C. L. H., Dent, W. R. F., et al., 2020, "Solving Grain Size
Inconsistency between ALMA Polarization and VLA Continuum in the Ophiuchus IRS 48 Protoplanetary Disk," The
Astrophysical Journal, 900, 81
7. Ueda, T., Kataoka, A., & Tsukagoshi, T., 2020, "Scattering-induced Intensity Reduction: Large Mass Content with
Small Grains in the Inner Region of the TW Hya disk," The Astrophysical Journal, 893, 125
8. Ohashi, S., & Kataoka, A., 2019, "Radial Variations in Grain Sizes and Dust Scale Heights in the Protoplanetary Disk
around HD 163296 Revealed by ALMA Polarization Observations," The Astrophysical Journal, 886, 103
9. Kataoka, A., Tsukagoshi, T., Pohl, A., Muto, T., Nagai, H., et al., 2017, "The Evidence of Radio Polarization Induced by
the Radiative Grain Alignment and Self-scattering of Dust Grains in a Protoplanetary Disk," The Astrophysical Journal,
844, L5
10. Tatsuuma, M., Kataoka, A., & Tanaka, H., 2019, "Tensile Strength of Porous Dust Aggregates," The AstrophysicalJournal, 874, 159
11. Kataoka, A., Okuzumi, S., & Tazaki, R., 2019, "Millimeter-wave Polarization Due to Grain Alignment by the Gas Flowin Protoplanetary Disks," The Astrophysical Journal, 874, L6
12. Mori, T., Kataoka, A., Ohashi, S., Momose, M., Muto, T., et al., 2019, "An Observational Study for Grain Dynamics in
the AS 209 Disk with Submillimeter Polarization," The Astrophysical Journal, 883, 16
13. Ohashi, S., Kataoka, A., Nagai, H., Momose, M., Muto, T., et al., 2018, "Two Different Grain Size Distributions within
the Protoplanetary Disk around HD 142527 Revealed by ALMA Polarization Observation," The Astrophysical Journal,
864, 81
14. Kataoka, A., 2017, "Dust Coagulation with Porosity Evolution," Formation, Evolution, and Dynamics of Young Solar
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15. Kataoka, A., Tsukagoshi, T., Momose, M., Nagai, H., Muto, T., et al., 2016, "Submillimeter Polarization Observation of
the Protoplanetary Disk around HD 142527," The Astrophysical Journal, 831, L12
16. Pohl, A., Kataoka, A., Pinilla, P., Dullemond, C. P., Henning, T., et al., 2016, "Investigating dust trapping in transition
disks with millimeter-wave polarization," Astronomy and Astrophysics, 593, A12
17. Kataoka, A., Muto, T., Momose, M., Tsukagoshi, T., & Dullemond, C. P., 2016, "Grain Size Constraints on HL Tau with
Polarization Signature," The Astrophysical Journal, 820, 54
18. Kataoka, A., Muto, T., Momose, M., Tsukagoshi, T., Fukagawa, M., et al., 2015, "Millimeter-wave Polarization ofProtoplanetary Disks due to Dust Scattering," The Astrophysical Journal, 809, 78
19. Kataoka, A., Okuzumi, S., Tanaka, H., & Nomura, H., 2014, "Opacity of fluffy dust aggregates," Astronomy andAstrophysics, 568, A42
20. Kataoka, A., Tanaka, H., Okuzumi, S., & Wada, K., 2013, "Fluffy dust forms icy planetesimals by static compression,"
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 557, L4
21. Kataoka, A., Tanaka, H., Okuzumi, S., & Wada, K., 2013, "Static compression of porous dust aggregates," Astronomy
and Astrophysics, 554, A4
22. Kataoka, A., Machida, M. N., & Tomisaka, K., 2012, "Exploring Magnetic Field Structure in Star-forming Cores with
Polarization of Thermal Dust Emission," The Astrophysical Journal, 761, 40
Other refereed papers
1. Hwang, J., Kim, J., Pattle, K., Lee, C. W., Koch, P. M., et al., 2022, "The JCMT BISTRO Survey: A Spiral Magnetic
Field in a Hub-filament Structure, Monoceros R2," The Astrophysical Journal, 941, 51
2. Ward-Thompson, D., Karoly, J., Pattle, K., Whitworth, A., Kirk, J., et al., 2023, "First BISTRO Observations of the Dark
Cloud Taurus L1495A-B10: The Role of the Magnetic Field in the Earliest Stages of Low-mass Star Formation," The
Astrophysical Journal, 946, 62
3. Ching, T.-C., Qiu, K., Li, D., Ren, Z., Lai, S.-P., et al., 2022, "The JCMT BISTRO-2 Survey: Magnetic Fields of theMassive DR21 Filament," The Astrophysical Journal, 941, 122
4. Hwang, J., Kim, J., Pattle, K., Lee, C. W., Koch, P. M., et al., 2022, "The JCMT BISTRO Survey: A Spiral Magnetic
Field in a Hub-filament Structure, Monoceros R2," The Astrophysical Journal, 941, 51
5. Kwon, W., Pattle, K., Sadavoy, S., Hull, C. L. H., Johnstone, D., et al., 2022, "B-fields in Star-forming Region
Observations (BISTRO): Magnetic Fields in the Filamentary Structures of Serpens Main," The Astrophysical Journal,
926, 163
6. Lyo, A.-R., Kim, J., Sadavoy, S., Johnstone, D., Berry, D., et al., 2021, "The JCMT BISTRO Survey: An 850/450 μm
Polarization Study of NGC 2071IR in Orion B," The Astrophysical Journal, 918, 85
7. Takemura, H., Nakamura, F., Ishii, S., Shimajiri, Y., Sanhueza, P., et al., 2021, "The C18O core mass function toward
Orion A: Single-dish observations," Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 73, 487
8. Eswaraiah, C., Li, D., Furuya, R. S., Hasegawa, T., Ward-Thompson, D., et al., 2021, "The JCMT BISTRO Survey:
Revealing the Diverse Magnetic Field Morphologies in Taurus Dense Cores with Sensitive Submillimeter Polarimetry,"
The Astrophysical Journal, 912, L27
9. Kanagawa, K. D., Hashimoto, J., Muto, T., Tsukagoshi, T., Takahashi, S. Z., et al., 2021, "ALMA Observation of theProtoplanetary Disk around WW Cha: Faint Double-peaked Ring and Asymmetric Structure," The Astrophysical Journal,
909, 212
10. Arzoumanian, D., Furuya, R. S., Hasegawa, T., Tahani, M., Sadavoy, S., et al., 2021, "Dust polarized emission
observations of NGC 6334. BISTRO reveals the details of the complex but organized magnetic field structure of thehigh-mass star-forming hub-filament network," Astronomy and Astrophysics, 647, A78
11. Ngoc, N. B., Diep, P. N., Parsons, H., Pattle, K., Hoang, T., et al., 2021, "Observations of Magnetic Fields Surrounding
LkHα 101 Taken by the BISTRO Survey with JCMT-POL-2," The Astrophysical Journal, 908, 10
12. Doi, Y., Hasegawa, T., Furuya, R. S., Coudé, S., Hull, C. L. H., et al., 2020, "The JCMT BISTRO Survey: Magnetic
Fields Associated with a Network of Filaments in NGC 1333," The Astrophysical Journal, 899, 28
13. Yamaguchi, M., Akiyama, K., Tsukagoshi, T., Muto, T., Kataoka, A., et al., 2020, "Super-resolution Imaging of theProtoplanetary Disk HD 142527 Using Sparse Modeling," The Astrophysical Journal, 895, 84
14. Bi, J., van der Marel, N., Dong (), R., Muto, T., Martin, R. G., et al., 2020, "GW Ori: Interactions between a
Triple-star System and Its Circumtriple Disk in Action," The Astrophysical Journal, 895, L18
15. Kim, S., Takahashi, S., Nomura, H., Tsukagoshi, T., Lee, S., et al., 2020, "The Detection of Dust Gap-ring Structure in
the Outer Region of the CR Cha Protoplanetary Disk," The Astrophysical Journal, 888, 72
16. Soon, K.-L., Momose, M., Muto, T., Tsukagoshi, T., Kataoka, A., et al., 2019, "Investigating the gas-to-dust ratio in the
protoplanetary disk of HD 142527," Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 71, 124
17. Matsumoto, M., Tsuchiyama, A., Nakato, A., Matsuno, J., Miyake, A., et al., 2019, "Discovery of fossil asteroidal ice inprimitive meteorite Acfer 094," Science Advances, 5, eaax5078
18. Tazaki, R., Tanaka, H., Kataoka, A., Okuzumi, S., & Muto, T., 2019, "Unveiling Dust Aggregate Structure inProtoplanetary Disks by Millimeter-wave Scattering Polarization," The Astrophysical Journal, 885, 52

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19. Tazaki, R., Tanaka, H., Muto, T., Kataoka, A., & Okuzumi, S., 2019, "Effect of dust size and structure on scattered-lightimages of protoplanetary discs," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 485, 4951
20. Zhu, Z., Zhang, S., Jiang, Y.-F., Kataoka, A., Birnstiel, T., et al., 2019, "One Solution to the Mass Budget Problem forPlanet Formation: Optically Thick Disks with Dust Scattering," The Astrophysical Journal, 877, L18
21. Coudé, S., Bastien, P., Houde, M., Sadavoy, S., Friesen, R., et al., 2019, "The JCMT BISTRO Survey: The Magnetic
Field of the Barnard 1 Star-forming Region," The Astrophysical Journal, 877, 88
22. Harrison, R. E., Looney, L. W., Stephens, I. W., Li, Z.-Y., Yang, H., et al., 2019, "Dust Polarization in Four
Protoplanetary Disks at 3 mm: Further Evidence of Multiple Origins," The Astrophysical Journal, 877, L2
23. Liu, J., Qiu, K., Berry, D., Di Francesco, J., Bastien, P., et al., 2019, "The JCMT BISTRO Survey: The Magnetic Field in
the Starless Core ρ Ophiuchus C," The Astrophysical Journal, 877, 43
24. Wang, J.-W., Lai, S.-P., Eswaraiah, C., Pattle, K., Di Francesco, J., et al., 2019, "JCMT BISTRO Survey: Magnetic
Fields within the Hub-filament Structure in IC 5146," The Astrophysical Journal, 876, 42
25. Yang, H., Li, Z.-Y., Stephens, I. W., Kataoka, A., & Looney, L., 2019, "Does HL Tau disc polarization in ALMA band 3
come from radiatively aligned grains?," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 483, 2371
26. Soam, A., Pattle, K., Ward-Thompson, D., Lee, C. W., Sadavoy, S., et al., 2018, "Magnetic Fields toward Ophiuchus-B
Derived from SCUBA-2 Polarization Measurements," The Astrophysical Journal, 861, 65
27. Hull, C. L. H., Yang, H., Li, Z.-Y., Kataoka, A., Stephens, I. W., et al., 2018, "ALMA Observations of Polarization from
Dust Scattering in the IM Lup Protoplanetary Disk," The Astrophysical Journal, 860, 82
28. Kwon, J., Doi, Y., Tamura, M., Matsumura, M., Pattle, K., et al., 2018, "A First Look at BISTRO Observations of the ρ
Oph-A core," The Astrophysical Journal, 859, 4
29. Stephens, I. W., Yang, H., Li, Z.-Y., Looney, L. W., Kataoka, A., et al., 2017, "ALMA Reveals Transition of Polarization
Pattern with Wavelength in HL Tau’s Disk," The Astrophysical Journal, 851, 55
30. Arakawa, S., Tanaka, H., Kataoka, A., & Nakamoto, T., 2017, "Thermal conductivity of porous aggregates," Astronomy
and Astrophysics, 608, L7
31. Tsukamoto, Y., Okuzumi, S., & Kataoka, A., 2017, "Apparent Disk-mass Reduction and Planetisimal Formation in
Gravitationally Unstable Disks in Class 0/I Young Stellar Objects," The Astrophysical Journal, 838, 151
32. Gunkelmann, N., Kataoka, A., Dullemond, C. P., & Urbassek, H. M., 2017, "Low-velocity collisions of chondrules:
How a thin dust cover helps enhance the sticking probability," Astronomy and Astrophysics, 599, L4
33. Tazaki, R., Tanaka, H., Okuzumi, S., Kataoka, A., & Nomura, H., 2016, "Light Scattering by Fractal Dust Aggregates. I.
Angular Dependence of Scattering," The Astrophysical Journal, 823, 70
34. Muto, T., Tsukagoshi, T., Momose, M., Hanawa, T., Nomura, H., et al., 2015, "Significant gas-to-dust ratio asymmetry
and variation in the disk of HD 142527 and the indication of gas depletion," Publications of the Astronomical Society ofJapan, 67, 122
35. Akiyama, E., Muto, T., Kusakabe, N., Kataoka, A., Hashimoto, J., et al., 2015, "Discovery of a Disk Gap Candidate at
20 AU in TW Hydrae," The Astrophysical Journal, 802, L17
36. Fukagawa, M., Tsukagoshi, T., Momose, M., Saigo, K., Ohashi, N., et al., 2013, "Local Enhancement of the Surface
Density in the Protoplanetary Ring Surrounding HD 142527," Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 65,
L14
37. Shinnaga, H., Novak, G., Vaillancourt, J. E., Machida, M. N., Kataoka, A., et al., 2012, "Magnetic Field in the Isolated
Massive Dense Clump IRAS 20126+4104," The Astrophysical Journal, 750, L29

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