Toshiki Tajima is Professor of Physics and of Computational and Applied Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin, where he is also a member of the Institute for Fusion Studies. His research interests include accelerator physics and computational physics.
Kazunari Shibata is Associate Professor of Astronomy at the National Astronomical Observatory in Tokyo. He has taught a series of lectures on plasma astrophysics at Osaka University, the University of Tokyo, and Kyoto University. His interests include solar physics, X-ray astronomy, and magnetohydrodynamic astrophysics.