Professor, Department of Solar System Sciences, ISAS, JAXA [Link]
Manager, Astromaterial Science Research Group/Extraterrestrial Science Curation Center, ISAS, JAXA [Link]
Professor, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of Tokyo [Link]
Affiliated Scientist, Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology [Link]
2004 Ph.D. in Geochemistry and Petrology, Institute for Study of the Earth’s Interior (ISEI), Okayama University, Japan (advisor, E. Nakamura)
2001 M.Sc. in Geochemistry and Petrology, Institute for Study of Earth’s Interior (ISEI), Okayama University, Japan (advisor, E. Nakamura)
1999 B.Sc. in Geology and Petrology, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan (advisor, S. Maruyama)
2020-present Manager, Astromaterial Science Research Group/Extraterrestrial Science Curation Center, ISAS, JAXA [Link]
2018-present Professor, Department of Solar System Sciences, ISAS, JAXA [Link]
2018-present Professor, Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, University of Tokyo [Link]
2016-present Science Board Organizer, Martian Moon eXplorer (MMX) [Link]
2016-present Study Team Leader, JAXA's Mars Rover/Lander mission
2016-2025 PI of Sample Analysis Working Team, Martian Moon eXplorer (MMX) [Link]
2016-2022 Science Team member, Hayabusa-2
2012-2020 Visiting Investigator, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington
2020-2021 Member, Mars Sample Return (MSR) Science Planning Group-2 (MSPG-2) [Link]
2019-2020 Member, Nominating Committee of Meteoritical Society [Link]
2018-2019 Member, International Mars Sample Return Objectives and Samples Team (iMOST)
2019-2019 Project Scientist at JAXA, CAESAR [Link]
2017-2018 Associate Principal Investigator, Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2016-2018 Project Associate Professor, Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2012-2016 Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of technology
2010-2015 Visiting Scientist, Lunar and Planetary Institute
2009-2014 Working group member, Mars Exploration with Lander-Orbiter Synergy (MELOS)
2009-2011 NASA Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Johnson Space Center, NASA
2005-2009 Science Collaborator, Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Athena Science Team
2005-2009 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee
2004-2005 COE-21 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Study of Earth’s Interior, Okayama University
2016 Earth-Life Science Institute Incentive Award (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
2015 The Young Scientists' Prize, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (科学技術分野の文部科学大臣表彰 若手科学者賞) [link]
2014 Tokyo Tech Challenge Research Award (東京工業大学 挑戦的研究賞)
2013 Tokyo Tech Young Scientist Prize (東京工業大学 理学系若手研究奨励賞)
2009 NASA Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship (NASA)
2009 Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Martian Meteorite Research (University of Tennessee)
2008 NASA Group Achievement Award to MER 3rd and 4th Extended Mission Team (NASA)
2004 Promotion of Science for Students (岡山大学 学生奨励賞) (Okayama University)
2022-2025 Usui, T. (PI), JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (22H01290 ), ¥17,160K, “Sulfur speciation and volatile isotope analyses of carbonates for Mars aqueous environment (炭酸塩の硫黄化学種解析・揮発性元素同位体分析に基づく火星水環境の実証的研究)”
2022-2029 Usui, T. (Co-), JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (PI: K. Hirose) (22K21344), ¥689,000K, “Understanding of the diversity of prebiotic chemistries and emergence of molecular systems in various planetary environments in the Solar System (太陽系に広がる惑星環境における前生命化学進化と分子システム誕生の多様性の解明)”
2021-2023 Usui, T. (Co-), JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (PI: M. Koike) (21H01149), ¥17,680K, “Elucidation of "nitrogen-cycle" and its long-term evolution on Martian surface (火星表層環境に影響を及ぼした「窒素の循環と進化」の実証的研究)”
2020-2025 Usui, T. (Co-I), JSPS, Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)) (PI: H. Genda)(20KK0080), ¥18,720K “Japan-France joint research on the origin of Martian moons (日仏国際共同融合研究による火星衛星の起源と形成過程の解明)”
2019-2022 Usui, T. (PI), JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (19H01960 ), ¥17,160K, “Volatile isotope and chemical speciation analysis of carbonate for the evolution of water and paleo-environment on Mars (炭酸塩の揮発性元素同位体分析および化学種解析に基づく火星水環境進化の研究)”
2017-2022 Usui, T. (PI), JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area) (17H06459), ¥190,190K, “Solar System Exploration for Aqua-planetology (水惑星学創成に向けた太陽系探査)”
2017-2022 Usui, T. (Co-I), JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area) (PI: Y. Sekine) (17H06454), ¥103,090K, “Aqua-planetology (水惑星学の創成)”
2016-2019 Usui, T. (PI), JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (16H04073), ¥17,810K, “Geochemical study of Martian meteorites for the evolution of water and paleo-environment on Mars (火星隕石の地球化学的解析に基づく火星の水の散逸史および表層酸化過程の解明)”
2016-2019 Usui, T. (PI), JSPS, Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research) (15KK0153), ¥14,300K “Geochemical study of Martian meteorites for the history of surface water on Mars (火星の海および表層氷の進化史：火星隕石の地球化学的解析からの制約)”
2016-2020 Usui, T. (PI), ISAS-JAXA, Research Group Grant, ¥1,500K, “Martian environment explorer by lander/rover (着陸機による火星環境探査)”
2018 Usui, T. (Co-I), NINS, “自然科学研究機構分野融合型共同研究事業” (PI: M. Ito), “量子ビームを用いた次世代非破壊分析技術とその応用に関する研究会:惑星物質科学との可能性”
2014-2016 Usui, T. (PI), JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (No. 26800272), ¥3,900K, “Geochemical study of Martian meteorites for the history of surface water on Mars (火星の海および表層氷の進化史：火星隕石の地球化学的解析からの制約)”
2011-2015 Usui, T. (PI), NASA Mars Fundamental Research Program, $415,838, “Olivine-hosted melt inclusions in Martian meteorites: the search for primordial volatile abundances and lead isotopic source components of Martian magmas”
2012-2014 Usui, T. (PI), NASA Cosmochemistry Program, $313,158, “Experimental and theoretical studies of geochemical evolution and thermal structure of the Martian mantle: Test for the magma ocean hypothesis”
2010-2011 Usui, T. (Collaborator), NASA Cosmochemistry Program (PI: J. H. Jones), $250,000, “Parental Melts of Martian Meteorites”
2019- GSC-EP6207L2 (University of Tokyo), Planetary Exploration Science I
2015-2018 EPS.A330 (Tokyo Tech), Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry
2018 500-level (Hokkaido Univ.), Planetary Environmental Geochemistry
2017 300-level (Hirosima Univ.), Environmental Geochemistry
2017 500-level (Kumamoto Univ.), Planetary Environmental Geochemistry
2016 LAS.A111 (Tokyo Tech), Introductory Geoscience Labs
2013-2015 EPS.L201 (Tokyo Tech), Safety Training for Geosciences
2012-2015 EPS.L203 (Tokyo Tech), Experimental Geochemistry