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Name
- Shotaro Sakai
Affiliation
- Department of Geophysics/Planetary Plasma and Atmospheric Research Center, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
- The International Joint Graduate Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences (GP-EES), Tohoku University
Position
- Assistant Professor
Education
- Ph.D., Department of Cosmosciences, Hokkaido University, Apr. 2011 -- Mar. 2014
- (Research training entrustment: Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Jan. -- Jul. 2013)
- M.S., Department of Cosmosciences, Hokkaido University, Apr. 2009 -- Mar. 2011
- B.S., Department of Earth Sciences, Hokkaido University, Apr. 2005 -- Mar. 2009
Professional Experience
- Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Apr. 2020 -- present
- Project Researcher, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Oct. 2016 -- Mar. 2020
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Jun. 2014 -- Sep. 2016
- Research Worker, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Apr. 2014 -- Jun. 2014
- Research Fellowship (DC2), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr. 2012 -- Mar. 2014
- Research Assistant, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Apr. 2011 -- Mar. 2012
Funded Proposals
- JSPS Research Fellowship: JPY 1,800,000 (Apr. 2012 -- Mar. 2014)
- JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C): JPY 3,640,000 (Apr. 2022 -- Mar. 2025)
Honors and Awards
- 128th. SGEPSS Meeting Student Presentation Award (Aurora Medal), A dust-plasma interaction in Saturn's E ring, Okinawa, November 2010
- SGEPSS Certificate of Appreciation, November 2011
- 130th. SGEPSS Meeting Student Accomplished Presenter, The ion observations from Cassini RPWS/LP around Enceladus' orbit, Kobe, November 2011
- SGEPSS Certificate of Appreciation, October 2012
- SGEPSS Certificate of Appreciation, November 2013
- NASA RHG Exceptional Achievement for Science, MAVEN Science Team, 22 March 2016
- NASA Group Achievement Award, MAVEN Science Team, 28 June 2016
- NASA Group Achievement Award, MAVEN Mission Team, 02 August 2018
- SGEPSS Obayashi Early Career Scientist Award, 26 September 2023
Professional Services
- Co-Convener of the session "Aeronomy and Plasma Physics of Planetary Environments", Asia Oceania Geoscience Society Annual Meeting, 2018 -- 2019
International Team Experiences
- ISSI international team on “Coordinated Numerical Modelling of the Global Jovian and Saturnian Systems", Team member as a young scientist, 2014 -- 2016
- Cassini Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS), Team member, 2014 -- 2017
- MAVEN Science Team, Team member, 2015 -- present
- Martian Moons eXploration Mission Mars-System Sub-Science Team, Team member, 2019 -- present
- MACO (Mars Aqueous-environment and space Climate Orbiter) Project WG, Member, 2020 -- present
- MACH DRIVE Center supported by the NASA Heliophysics Program, Affiliate, 2020 -- 2022
- Life-environmentology, Astronomy, and PlanetarY Ultraviolet Telescope Assembly (LAPYUTA) Project WG, Member, 2021 -- present
Teaching Experiences
- Exercises in Ionospheric and Magnetospheric Physics of Dep. Geophysics, Tohoku Univ., Jun. 2022-Jul. 2022 (Spring Semester)
- Quest of Nature H (Space environment around Earth) for undergraduate students, Taisho Univ., Sep. 2019-Jan. 2020 (Fall Semester)
- Earth History for undergraduate students of Dep. Environmental Systems Sciences, Musashino Univ., Jun. 2019-Aug. 2019 (2nd Semester)
- Quest of Nature H (Space environment around Earth) for undergraduate students, Taisho Univ., Sep. 2018-Jan. 2019 (Fall Semester)
- Earth History for undergraduate students of Dep. Environmental Systems Sciences, Musashino Univ., Jun. 2018-Aug. 2018 (2nd Semester)
- Earth History for undergraduate students of Dep. Environmental Systems Sciences, Musashino Univ., Jun. 2017-Jul. 2017 (2nd Semester)
- Information Experiment for undergraduate students of Dep. Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hokkaido Univ., Apr. 2014-Jun. 2014 (Spring Semester)
- Information Science for undergraduate students of Liberal Arts Education Program, Hokkaido Univ., Apr. 2014-Jun. 2014 (Spring Semester)
- Information Experiment for undergraduate students of Dep. Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hokkaido Univ., Apr. 2011-Jul. 2011 (Spring Semester)
- Information Experiment for undergraduate students of Dep. Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hokkaido Univ., Apr. 2010-Jul. 2010 (Spring Semester)
Hobby
- Playing the guitar
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