Biography:
Hironori Shiga was born in Tokyo in 1944. He finished his under graduate school and
graduate course at University of Tokyo. He started his specialized study in the fields of
several complex variables and complex algebraic geometry. During his time of discipline
he received advices of Prof. Kiyoshi Oka, Prof. Kunihiko Kodaira and others.
He started his teaching career at Chiba university (Japan) and a few years after became
an associate professor there. He got a promotion to a full professor there also.
He stayed two years at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Italy) as a Grant Student of
Italian government. There Prof. Edoardo Vesentini was a supervisor. During the stay in
Italy, he began to build the theory of K3 modular function. This is a theory considered
to be a natural extension of the classical modular function also related to modern physics
and cryptography.
From 90's he began to make research in the fields of number theory. He published
over 10 articles in this direction. And he made many expositions at various international
conferences (like Obervolfach, Luminy, I.C.M. etc.) on this subject.
He gave many course lectures at various graduate schools as an invited professor
(for example, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Padova university (Italy), Abdus Salam
School of Mathematical Sciences, Lahore (Pakistan), etc. ).
From 2009 he is a professor emeritus at Chiba university.