Personal History

Work Experience

4/2021-present


University: The Univerity of Tokyo (Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan)
Institution: Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute
Division: Climate System Research
Department: Climate Variability Research (due to reorganizational change)
Position: Associate Professor
Graduate education: Department of Earth and Planetary Science
Undergraduate education: Deptartment of Earth and Planetary Environment, Deptartment of Earth and Planetary Physics

10/2018-3/2021


University: The Univerity of Tokyo (Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan)
Institution: Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute
Division: Climate System Research
Department: Climate System Modeling
Section: Climate System Modeling
Position: Associate Professor
Graduate education: Department of Earth and Planetary Science
Undergraduate education: Deptartment of Earth and Planetary Environment, Deptartment of Earth and Planetary Physics

4/2014-9/2018


University: Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan)
Faculty: Faculty of Environmental Earth Science
Division: Earth System Science
Section: Atmosphere and Ocean Physics
Position: Associate Professor
Graduate education: Graduate School of Environmental Science (4/2014-9/2018)
Undergraduate education: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, School of Science (12/2014-9/2018)
Other affiliation: Arctic Research Center (4/2015-9/2018)
Other affiliation: Global Institution for Collaborative Research and Education - GI-CoRE (4/2016-9/2018)

7/2009-3/2014


University: The University of Tokyo (Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan)
Institution: Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute
Division: Climate System Research (formerly, Center for Climate System Research)
Department Climate System Modeling
Section: Climate System Modeling
Work with: Associate Professor Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Position: Project Research Associate (Faculty)

5/2007-6/2009


University: The University of Tokyo (Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan)
Institution: Center for Climate System Research
Department Climate System Modeling
Section: Climate System Modeling
Work with: Associate Professor Ayako Abe-Ouchi
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow

1/2005-3/2007


University: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (New Brunswick, NJ, USA)
Institution: Center for Environmental Prediction
Work with: Associate Professor Anthony J. Broccoli
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow

1/2002-12/2004


University: University of Bern (Bern, Switzerland)
Institution: Climate and Environmental Physics, Physics Institute
Work with: Professor Thomas F. Stocker
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow

Education

9/1997-12/2001


University: University of Victoria (Victoria, BC, Canada)
Department: School of Earth and Ocean Sciences
Laboratory: Climate Modelling Laboratory
Supervisor: Professor Andrew J. Weaver
Degree Awarded: 5/2002*
Degree: Ph.D.
*All requirements for the degree were completed in October, 2001.

4/1995-3/1997


University: Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan)
Faculty: Graduate School of Science and Engineering
Department: Mineral Resources Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering
Major: The Mineral Resources Engineering
Laboratory: Geophysical Exploration Laboratory
Supervisor: (late) Professor Koji Noguchi
Degree Awarded: 3/1997
Degree: Master of Engineering

4/1991-3/1995


University: Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan)
Faculty: School of Science and Engineering
Department: Department of Mineral Resources Engineering
Laboratory: Geophysical Exploration Laboratory
Supervisor: (late) Professor Koji Noguchi
Degree Awarded: 3/1995
Degree: Bachelor of Engineering

Awards/Prizes

Japan Meteorological Society Award (20 May 2020)


Announcement

GRENE Arctic Climate Change Project Award (04 March 2016)


Announcement

2001 Tertia M.C. Hughes Memorial Prize (24 May 2002)


2001 Tertia M.C. Hughes Memorial Prize/Prix commemoratif Tertia M.C. Hughes from Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society

Announcement

Description by the society at that time: "One graduate student prize may be awarded each year in the name of Tertia M.C. Hughes for a contribution of special merit by a graduate student registered at a Canadian university or by a Canadian graduate student registered at a foreign university."; "To Dr. Masakazu Yoshimori for his exceptional contributions to Milankovitch-scale climate research that were carried out at the University of Victoria as part of his doctoral thesis entitled "Modelling Studies of Glacial-interglacial Transitions" involving numerical simulations into the possible causes and mechanisms of glacial inception and termination."

Current description

Committee