CV
I am an associate professor at Tohoku University, Japan. Before taking my current position, I worked as an assistant professor at Tohoku University and as a contract researcher at the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) in Tsukuba, Japan, under Dr. Eiichi Fukuyama. I obtained my Ph.D. at Tohoku University under the supervision of Prof. Akira Hasegawa.
(1) Employment
- Oct. 2024 – Present: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
- Sep. 2016 – Sep. 2024: Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
- Sep. 2014 – Aug. 2016: Contract Researcher, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED)
- Apr. 2014 – Sep. 2014: JSPS Research Fellow (PD), Tohoku University
(2) Education
- Apr. 2011 – Mar. 2014: Ph.D., Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
- Apr. 2009 – Mar. 2011: M.S., Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
- Apr. 2005 – Mar. 2009: B.S., Faculty of Science, Tohoku University
(3) Awards and Honors
- Young Scientist Award, Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan, 2025
- Young Scientist Award, Seismological Society of Japan, 2020
- Kamide Lecture Award, Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), 2019
- Top Viewed Article among work published in Geophysical Research Letters between January 1, 2024 and December 31, 2024, American Geophysical Union (AGU) (Role of a Hidden Fault in the Early Process of the 2024 Mw 7.5 Noto Peninsula Earthquake), 2026
- Editor’s Citation for Excellence in Refereeing, for outstanding service to the authors and readers of JGR: Solid Earth, American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2025
- Top Viewed Article of 2023, JGR: Solid Earth, Wiley (Upward Earthquake Swarm Migration in the Northeastern Noto Peninsula, Japan, Initiated From a Deep Ring-Shaped Cluster: Possibility of Fluid Leakage From a Hidden Magma System), 2025
- Top Viewed Article of 2023, Geophysical Research Letters, Wiley (Updip Fluid Flow in the Crust of the Northeastern Noto Peninsula, Japan, Triggered the 2023 Mw6.2 Suzu Earthquake During Swarm Activity), 2025
- Top Cited Article of 2023, JGR: Solid Earth, Wiley (Upward Earthquake Swarm Migration in the Northeastern Noto Peninsula, Japan...), 2025
- Outstanding Reviewer, Geophysical Journal International, The Royal Astronomical Society, 2024
- Research Paper Award, Seismological Society of Japan, 2019 (Yumi Urata, Keisuke Yoshida, Eiichi Fukuyama, Hisahiko Kubo)
- Student Outstanding Presentation Award, Solid Earth Sciences Section, Japan Geoscience Union Meeting, 2013
- Student Outstanding Presentation Award, Seismological Society of Japan, 2012
- Best Student Poster Award, G-COE Symposium, 2012 (Seismic wave propagation and crustal heterogeneity & The 2011 Tohoku earthquake and earthquake cycle)
- Student Outstanding Presentation Award, Solid Earth Sciences Section, Japan Geoscience Union Meeting, 2012
(4) Invited Presentations
Full titles and the complete list of contributed international presentations are on the Presentations page.
International
- SSA 2025 Annual Meeting, Baltimore, USA, April 2025
- International Workshop on Swarm-like Seismicity, Castrovillari, Italy, October 2024
- SSA 2024 Annual Meeting, Anchorage, USA, May 2024
- AOGS 16th Annual Meeting, Singapore, July 2019
- Workshop: Frontiers in Studies of Earthquakes and Faults, Shenzhen, China, November 2017
- JpGU–AGU Joint Meeting 2017, Makuhari, Japan, May 2017
- SSA 2017 Annual Meeting, Denver, USA, April 2017
Domestic (Japan)
- JpGU Meeting 2024, Makuhari, May 2024 (two invited talks)
- JpGU Meeting 2022, Makuhari, May 2022
- JpGU Meeting 2021, Makuhari, May 2021
- The 2020 SSJ (Seismological Society of Japan) Fall Meeting, Online, October 2020
(5) Editorial and Professional Service
- Editor, Earth, Planets and Space (EPS), Springer
- Guest Editor, Earth, Planets and Space (EPS) special issue on the 2025 Mw 7.6 off-Aomori earthquake, submissions open until 31 Mar 2027