Profile

Professional Experiences

Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, April 2020 - present
Project Researcher, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, October 2016 - March 2020
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, June 2014 - September 2016
Research Worker, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, April 2014 - June 2014
Research Fellowship (DC2), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, April 2012 - March 2014
Research Assistant, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, April 2011 - March 2012

Ph.D., Department of Cosmosciences, Hokkaido University, April 2011 - March 2014
- (Research training entrustment: Swedish Institute of Space Physics, January - July 2013)
M.S., Department of Cosmosciences, Hokkaido University, April 2009 - March 2011
B.S., Department of Earth Sciences, Hokkaido University, April 2005 - March 2009

SGEPSS Obayashi Early Career Scientist Award, "Studies on the roles of planetary intrinsic magnetic fields and solar wind magnetic fields in atmospheric escape from planets", 26 September 2023
NASA Group Achievement Award, MAVEN Mission Team (including S. Sakai), 02 August 2018
NASA Group Achievement Award, MAVEN Science Team (including S. Sakai), 28 June 2016
NASA RHG Exceptional Achievement for Science, MAVEN Science Team (including S. Sakai), 22 March 2016
128th. SGEPSS Meeting Student Presentation Award (Aurora Medal), "A dust-plasma interaction in Saturn's E ring", Okinawa, November 2010

JSPS Fostering Joint International Research (B), 22KK0044 "New isotope observations of Mars atmospheric evolution: International collaboration of European and Japanese Mars exploration missions (新たな同位体観測による火星大気進化の解明：日欧火星探査ミッションの国際協力)", JPY 15,400,000 in total, Co-I, October 2022 - March 2027
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 22K03695 "Influence of stellar spectra on the evolution of planetary atmospheres (恒星スペクトルが与える惑星大気進化への影響)", JPY 2,800,000, PI, April 2022 - March 2025
JSPS Grand-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (DC2), 12J03324 "Dust-plasma interaction in the Saturn's inner magnetosphere (土星内部磁気圏におけるダスト-プラズマ相互作用)", JPY 1,800,000, PI, April 2012 - March 2014

Japan Geoscience Union, April 2009 - present
Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences (SGEPSS), May 2011 - present
American Geophysical Union, August 2011 - present
The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences, May 2022 - present

Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) Mission MSA (Mass Spectrum Analyzer) Team, Team member, 2024 - present
Retention of Habitable Atmospheres in Planetary Systems (RHAPS) funded by the NASA Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research (ICAR) Program, Collaborator, 2023 - present
Life-environmentology, Astronomy, and PlanetarY Ultraviolet Telescope Assembly (LAPYUTA) Project Team, Team Member (Co-lead for Terrestrial Planet Observation Study), 2021 - present
MACH DRIVE Center funded by the NASA Heliophysics Program, Affiliate, 2020 -- 2022
Mars Aqueous-environment and space Climate Orbiter (MACO) Project WG, Member, 2020 - present
Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) Mission Mars-System Science Strategy Team, Team member, 2019 - present
MAVEN Science Team, Team member, 2015 - present
Cassini Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS), Team member, 2014 - 2017
ISSI international team on “Coordinated Numerical Modelling of the Global Jovian and Saturnian Systems", Team member as a young scientist, 2014 - 2016

Convener of the Asia Oceania Geoscience Society (AOGS) Annual Meeting, 2018 - 2019
SOC (Session Organizing Committee) of the ISAS International Planetary Exploration Workshop, 2021 - present
SOC of the Symposium on Planetary Sciences, 2021 - present

STEPLE (SGEPSS Young Outreach Activity), Member, June 2011 - present
- Representative, April 2021 - March 2023
SGEPSS Subcommittee of Outreach Activity, Member, 2021 - present