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{{CharacterInfobox|
name=Professor Hastings |
jname=シンバラ教授 |
tmname=Prof. Shinbara |
slogan=no |
image=[[Image:Professorhastings.JPG|140px]] |
caption=Art from Pokémon Ranger |
gender=Male |
hometown=[[Fall City]] |
region=[[Fiore]] |
relatives=Unknown |
trainer=yes |
trainerclass=[[Pokémon professor]] |
game=yes |
generation=[[Generation III|III]] |
games=[[Pokémon Ranger|Ranger]] |
leader=no |
anime=no |
}}

'''Professor Hastings''' (Japanese: '''シンバラ教授''' ''Professor Shinbara'') is a [[Pokémon professor]] who lives in [[Fall City]] in the [[Fiore]] region.  He is the Ranger Union's chief of technology.

Professor Hastings is the creator of the [[Capture Styler]] and is an important figure for the Ranger federation. It is one of the hero's first missions to escort him from [[Ringtown]] back to Fall City, however along the way they are attacked by the [[Go-Rock Squad]] and Hastings's new prototype "Super Styler" is stolen.

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Near the end of the game, it is revealed that Hastings and [[Gordor]] went to school together and at one point used to work as colleagues. 

In the third Ranger Net mission, players are sent to capture a Mew so that Hastings may do research on it.

He reapears in [[Pokemon Ranger Shadows of Almia]].

==Trivia==
[[Image:HastingsPokeRanger2.png|thumb|left|As he appears in [[Pokémon Ranger: Shadows of Almia]]]]
*Out of all the Pokémon professors so far, Hastings is the only one who is also a professor (教授 ''kyōju'') in the Japanese version, whereas the others are all doctorate holders (博士 ''hakase'').
*He is the only professor to appear as the main professor in two games.

===Names===
{| border="1" style="border: 1px solid #88a; border-collapse: collapse;" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2"
|- style="background: #ccf;"
! Language
! Name
! Origin
|- 
|Japanese
|シンバラ教授  ''Shinbara-kyōju''
| 
|-
|English
|Professor Hastings 
|From ''hasty''.
|-
|French
|Prof. Pressand 
|From ''pressant'', urgent, pressing.
|-
|German
|Prof. Hastings
|
|-
|Italian
|Prof. Frenesio
|From ''frenesia'', frenzy.
|-
|Spanish
|Prof. Gobios 
|From ''agobios'', worries.
|}



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