Current Titles
Assistant Professor of Planetary Atmospheric Physics Laboratory
Department of Geophysics, Graduate School of Science
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
(Also: Division for the Establishment of Frontier Sciences, Organization for Advanced Studies, Tohoku University)
Research Collaborator
Terahertz Remote Sensing Team, Terahertz Research Center
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Koganei, Japan
picked-up research Topics
Adsorptive Regolith on Mars Soaks Up Water, Researchers Reveal (2025-02-26)
https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/press/adsorptive_regolith_on_mars_soaks_up_water_researchers_reveal.html
Organic Matter on Mars was Formed from Atmospheric Formaldehyde (2024-09-19)
https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/press/organic_matter_on_mars_was_formed_from_atmospheric_formaldehyde.html
Biomolecules from Formaldehyde on Ancient Mars (2024-02-28)
https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/press/biomolecules_from_formaldehyde_on_ancient_mars.html
Article in Phys.org:
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-possibility-life-mars-biomolecules-atmospheric.html
Simulation of the “cool and wet” climate of early (3.8 billion-years-ago) Mars
http://www.gp.tohoku.ac.jp/research/topics-en/20210119090620.html
Projects Involved
Science Team Member of the Japanese Venus Climate Orbiter (Akatsuki)
Co-Investigator of the Sub-Millimeter Wave Instrument onboard the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Mission (JUICE/SWI)
Science Team Member of the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN)
Affiliated Academic Societies
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Division for Planetary Sciences, American Astronomical Society (DPS/AAS)
Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences (SGEPSS)
Meteorological Society of Japan
The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences
The Japan Society of Atmospheric Chemistry