Professional experiences

• Apr 2022 - Assistant Professor National Institute of Polar Research

• Oct 2019 - Mar 2022 Project Researcher National Institute of Polar Research

• Sep 2017 - Sep 2019 Research Fellow Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo

• Apr 2016 - Sep 2017 Researcher Earth Observation Research Center, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

• Apr 2013 - Mar 2016 Project Researcher Arctic Environment Research Center, National Institute of Polar Research

• May 2011 - Mar 2013 Researcher Graduate School of Environmental Science, Nagoya University

• Apr 2011 Academic Researcher Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University

Education

• 2007 - 2011 Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University (Ph.D)

• 2004 - 2006 Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University (M.ESc)

• 2000 - 2004 Department of Earth Science, Faculty of Science, Toyama University (B.Sc)

• 1997 - 2000 Omachi High School, Nagano Prefecture

Field measurements

• Oct 2022 - Feb 2024 Dome Fuji and Syowa Station (Antarctica, as a wintering member of The 64th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition)

• Nov 2021 - Feb 2022 Dome Fuji area (Antarctica, as a summer member of The 63rd Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition)

• Oct 2018 - Feb 2019 Dome Fuji area (Antarctica, as a summer member of The 60th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition)

• Jun 2015 - Aug 2015 Bowdoin Glacier, Qaanaaq Ice Cap (Greenland)

• Jun 2014 - Aug 2014 Bowdoin Glacier, Qaanaaq Ice Cap (Greenland)

• Jun 2013 - Aug 2013 Bowdoin Glacier, Qaanaaq Ice Cap (Greenland)

• Aug 2011 - Sep 2011 Zanam, Lunana, Gangju La (Bhutan)

• May 2011 Tateyama (Toyama, Japan)

• Jun 2009 - Sep 2009 Rhonegletscher (Switzerland)

• Dec 2008 - Jan 2009 Glaciar Perito Moreno (Argentina)

• Jun 2008 - Sep 2008 Rhonegletscher (Switzerland)

• Jun 2007 - Sep 2007 Rhonegletscher (Switzerland)

• Apr 2006 Tateyama (Toyama, Japan)

• Apr 2004 - Nov 2005 Moshiri (Hokkaido, Japan)

• Apr 2003 - Nov 2003 Tateyama (Toyama, Japan)

• Nov 2002 Tateyama (Toyama, Japan)

Award

• Sep 2018 Hirata Prize (The Japanese Society of Snow and Ice)

• Feb 2012 Ukichiro Nakaya science promotion award (Kaga City & The Japanese Society of Snow and Ice)

• Oct 2010 Student incentive award (JSSI & JSSE Joint Conference - 2010/Sendai)

• Dec 2009 Excellent poster award (IFES-GCOE Sustainability Weeks 2009 Poster Presentation, Hokkaido Univ.)

• Sep 2009 Very Impressive Presentation award (JSSI & JSSE Joint Conference - 2009/Sapporo)

Research grant

[Principal investigator]

• Apr 2022 - Mar 2025 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) (No. 22K12364)

• Apr 2020 - Mar 2022 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a Proposed Research Area) (No. 20H04978)

• Apr 2018 - Mar 2021 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (No. 18K18176)

• May 2008 The Inoue Fund for Field Science (The Japanese Society of Snow and Ice)

Affiliated scientific societies

• The Japanese Society of Snow and Ice

• Japan Geoscience Union

• International Glaciological Society

• American Geophysical Union

• European Geosciences Union