<Professional Experience>
Associate Professor, Hokkaido University, April 2023 - present
Senior Researcher, JAMSTEC, April 2012 - March 2023
Researcher, JAMSTEC, April 2009 - March 2012
Postdoctral Researcher, JAMSTEC, April 2004 - March 2009
Visiting scientist, Department of Physics Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford, June 2016 – March 2017
Visiting scientist, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, December 2009 – March 2010
<Education>
2004 - Ph. D., The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2001 - M. S., The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
1999 - B. S., Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
<Honors>
2019 Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU) Nishida Prize
The Award of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 2017
The Yamamoto-Shyono Medal, Meteorological Society of Japan, 2011.
<Professional Activities>
Editor, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, American Meteorological Society (January 2020～December2024)
Associate Editor, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, American Meteorological Society (March 2017～December 2019)
Editor, JAMSTEC Report of Research and Development, April 2015 – June 2016
Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Roles in Climate (SPARC)
Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (S-RIP), Chapter 9: Quasi-Biennial Oscillation and Tropical Varability, Contributor
Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System (CAWSES-II), Taks 2: How will Geospace Respond to a Changing Climate?, Project 1.2 Changes in filtering, Progect member
<Scientific Committees>
The International Commission on the Middle Atmosphere (ICMA), member elected 2015 (term: 2015-2023)
2018-2020, Member of CLIVAR Sub-committee, IGBP/WCRP/DIVERSITAS Joint Section of the Earth and Planetary Science Committee and the Environment Committee, Science Council of Japan
2018-2020, Member of SPARC Sub-committee, IGBP/WCRP/DIVERSITAS Joint Section of the Earth and Planetary Science Committee and the Environment Committee, Science Council of Japan
2017-present: Outstanding Student Presentation Award Contact of Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences Section, Japan Geoscience Union
2015-2017, Party organizer of CLIVAR Sub-committee, IGBP/WCRP/DIVERSITAS Joint Section of the Earth and Planetary Science Committee and the Environment Committee, Science Council of Japan
2015-2017, Member of SPARC Sub-committee, IGBP/WCRP/DIVERSITAS Joint Section of the Earth and Planetary Science Committee and the Environment Committee, Science Council of Japan
<Referee of scientific journals>
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
Journal of Climate
Monthly Weather Review
Nature
Nature Geoscience
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Journal of Geophysical Research
Geophysical Research Letters
Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan
Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere (SOLA)
Earth, Planets and Space
Tenki (in Japanese)