Professor Kei-ichi Maeda visit

Professor Kei-ichi Maeda, from Waseda University in Tokyo, will visit us in October. Professor Maeda is well known for his contributions to black hole physics and to the understanding of scalar-tensor theories of gravity.

About Prof. Maeda
Dr. Kei-ichi Maeda is a professor emeritus at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan．

He received his Ph.D. in Physics at Kyoto University and held postdoctoral positions at Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (Kyoto, Japan), SISSA (Trieste, Italy), ICTP (Trieste, Italy) and Meudon Observatory (Paris, France). He then became an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo, and moved to Waseda University. He retired from Waseda University at March 2021 after working for 31 years as a full professor of physics, during which he had directed 40 PhD students.

He organized the first JGRG meeting (Workshop on General Relativity and Gravitation in Japan) at 1990 just after he moved from the University of Tokyo to Waseda University. After then he has been working every year for the organization of this series of workshops, which have been continued more than 30 years.

His research covers many areas of gravitational physics and cosmology. He has written about 200 papers including several highly cited papers on higher-dimensional gravitational theories and brane-world scenario. He is now interested in two main topics: Gravitational Wave Physics and Dark Energy.