Maya Takechi

Maya Takechi is a nuclear physicist who received her MSc in Physics at Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 2003, and her PhD in Physics also at Osaka University in 2006. She is engaged in the study of nuclear matter. She has measured a number of total reaction cross section data with the use of Radioactive Isotope beams (RI beams). In 2006, in her doctoral thesis work, she developed the calculation which can deduce the total reaction cross sections at intermediate energies from nuclear matter density distributions. She is now in the postdoctoral position in RIKEN and performs the nuclear physics experiments at world's most intense RI beam facility, RIBF.