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After working as a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), a project researcher at Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), a staff scientist at Planetary Exploration Research Center of Chiba Institute of Technology, and a senior staff scientist of the same, I have been an associate professor at the Department of Human Environmental Science, Graduate school of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University, since October 2023. I’m a visiting researcher at Planetary Exploration Research Center of Chiba Institute of Technology.

My specialty is in comparative planetology, astrobiology, and impact physics.

I’m working on hypervelocity impact experiments to elucidate the effects of impact bombardments on the evolution of planetary surface systems.