Name: Youhei Kinoshita（木下陽平）
Birth Date: 04/04/1986（昭和61年）
Home town: Teine, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Specialized fields: Synthetic Aperture Radar, Space Geodesy, Surface Displacement Research, Mesoscale Meteorology
Related fields: GPS meteorology, disaster prevention, global hydrology, climate change
Education:
Mar. 2005: Hokkaido Sapporo Teine High School, Sapporo
Mar. 2009: B.Sc., Department of Earth Planetary Sciences, Hokkaido University
Mar. 2011: M.Sc., Department of Natural History Sciences, Hokkaido University
Mar. 2014: D.Sc., Department of Natural History Sciences, Hokkaido University
Professional Experiences:
Apr. 2013 - Mar. 2015: Japan Society for Promotion Science (JSPS) Fellow
1 Apr. 2015 - 15 Apr 2015: Researcher of Department of Natural History Sciences, Hokkaido University
16 Apr. 2015 - May 2015: Academic support stuff, Institute of Engineering Innovation, The University of Tokyo
Jun. 2015 - Mar. 2017: Project Researcher, Institute of Engineering Innovation, The University of Tokyo
Apr. 2017 - Mar 2019: Researcher, Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan
Apr. 2019 - : Assistant Professor, Faculty of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba
Awards:
2012: Student Presentation Award, Geodetic Society Japan 118th meeting
2024: Tuboi award (for group), Geodetic Society Japan 142th meeting
2025: Education contribution award, Institute of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba
Doctor Thesis: Geodetic and meteorological studies of the water vapor delay signal in InSAR with the use of numerical weather model, 2014, Hokkaido University (PhD of Science)
Research Grants:
2013: A grant of business travel for international conference by Geodetic Society Japan
2013/04-2015/03: Grants-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
2019/04-2020/03: University of Tsukuba Basic Research Support Program Type A, "Detecting small-amplitude displacement signal due to a slow slip event by InSAR with hybrid atmospheric correction: a case study for the 2018 Boso SSE"
2019/11-2020/05: Research grand of Toyota-CPPS cooperative research program Phase V, "Developing car-onboard SAR system for social infrastructure monitoring"
2021 - 2024: JSPS Grant-In-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (PI)
2022/07 - 2023/03: JSPS Grant-In-Aid for Special Purposes (CI)
2023/07 - 2025/03: JSPS Grant-In-Aid for Special Purposes (CI)
2023/07 - 2024/03: RESTEC research grant
2023/07 - 2024/02: JAXA contract research
2024/04 - 2027/03: Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (PI)
2025/04 - 2030/03: Grant-In-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (CI)
2025/08 - 2025/12: Cooperative research with ME-Lab Japan
Participated Projects:
2015 - 2017: Strategic R&D Area Project "S-14" of the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (research collaborator)