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Date and place of birth: 1950 November 30, Tokyo
Education:
April 1969 - March 1973
Dept. of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology
B.S. degree on March 26, 1973
April 1973 - March 1978
Dept. of Astronomy, University of Tokyo
Ph.D degree on March 29, 1978
Employment:
April 1978 - September 1978
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
(Tokyo Astronomical Observatory, University of Tokyo)
October 1978 - December 1985
Research Associate,
Dept. of Astronomy, University of Tokyo
January 1986 - June 1988
Research Associate,
Tokyo Astronomical Observatory, University of Tokyo
July 1988 - August 1992
Assistant Professor,
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
September 1992 - March 2004
Professor,
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
also: Director, Norikura Solar Observatory
(April 1992 - March 2004)
Director, Solar Physics Division
(April 1994 - March 1996, April 1998 - March 2004)
Director, Solar Activity World Data Center
(April 1993 - March 1997)
April 2004 - March 2016
Professor,
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, National Institutes of Natural Sciences
also: Assistant Director General (April 2004 - March 2012)
Director, Solar Observatory (April 2004 - March 2006)
Director of Research Coordination (April 2012 - March 2014)
Director, Solar and Plasma Astrophysics Division (April 2014 - March 2016)
April 2016
Emeritus Professor, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Emeritus Professor, National Institutes for Natural Sciences
Administrative Director, Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology (April 2016 - March 2022)
Fellowship:
August 1979 - August 1981
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
April 1984 - April 1985
Max Planck Institut fuer Astrophysik, Munich, West Germany
September 1989 - October 1989
Astronomical Institute, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
May 2000 - December 2000
National Solar Observatory, Tucson, USA
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Last Update: 2022 September 27