Current Positions
■ Director, Hokkaido Comprehensive Geological Research Center
■ Visiting Investigator, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science
■ Visiting Researcher, Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo

Research Field
■ Geophysics (Seismology, Statistical Modeling, Discovery Science)

Degree
■ Doctor of Science, Hokkaido University (1990)
Dissertation:
A Study of Detection and Extraction Methods for Microearthquake Waves by Autoregressive Models

Education
■ 1964 ~ Nagano High School
■ 1968 ~ B.Sc., Shinshu University
■ 1971 ~ M.Sc., Geophysics, Hokkaido University
■ 1973 ~ Doctoral Program (Geophysics), Hokkaido University

Academic and Professional Appointments
■ 1973 Research Associate, Hokkaido University
■ 1990 ~ 1993 Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Institution of Washington
■ 1999 Associate Professor, Hokkaido University
■ 2007 Associate Professor (tenured), Hokkaido University
■ 2009 Retired from Hokkaido University
■ 2009 ~ 2013 Visiting Professor, Sapporo Gakuin University
■ 2009 ~ 2011 Visiting Investigator, Carnegie Institution for Science
■ 2011 ~ 2013 Visiting Professor, Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo
■ 2013 Visiting Researcher, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo
■ 2013 ~ Present Visiting Investigator, Carnegie Institution for Science
■ 2015 ~ Present Visiting Researcher, University of Tokyo
■ 2018 ~ Present Director, Hokkaido Comprehensive Geological Research Center