Curriculum Vitae(Last updated: 24 June. 2011)

Name: Satoshi Kasahara
Date of birth: 05.12.1981
Nationality: Japanese
E-mail: kshr@stp.isas.jaxa.jp

Interests
Charged particle measurements, Planetary magnetospheric dynamics

Educational background
April, 2000 - March, 2004
Undergraduate student at The University of Tokyo
April, 2004 - March, 2009
Master course (2004-2006) and Ph.D. course (2006-2009) student at
department of Earth and Planetary Science, The University of Tokyo(supervisors: Toshifumi Mukai and Yoshifumi Saito)

Professional experience
April, 2009 - March, 2011
Project researcher at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(also, part-time lecturer at Kogakuin University for Sep/2009-Mar/2011)
April, 2011Assistant Professor at Institute of Space and Astronautical ScienceAwardsStudent paper award in SGEPSS(Society of Geomagnetism and Earth,Planetary, and Space Sciences) autumn meeting, 2005.

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Encouraging prize for doctoral thesis, The University of Tokyo, 2009.

List of Publications(as the first author) Kasahara, S., E. A. Kronberg, N. Krupp, T. Kimura, C. Tao, S. V. Badman, A.
Retino, M. Fujimoto, "Magnetic reconnection in the Jovian tail: X-line evolution
and consequent plasma sheet structures", submitted to JGR (Space Physics).
Kasahara, S., T. Takashima, K. Asamura, and T. Mitani, "Development of an APD
with Large Area and Thick Depletion Layer for Energetic Electron Measurementsin Space", IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear
Science, vol. 57, No. 3, pp. 841-847, 2010.
Kasahara, S., Y. Miyashita, T. Takada, M. Fujimoto, V. Angelopoulos, H. U. Frey,
J. Bonnell, J. P. McFadden, D. Larson, K. H. Glassmeier, H. U. Auster, W.
Magnes, and I. Mann, "Spatial distributions of electromagnetic field variations andinjection regions during the 20 November 2007 sawtooth event", Annales
Geophysicae, 27, pp. 3825-3840, 2009.

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Kasahara, S., T. Mitani, K. Ogasawara, T. Takashima, M. Hirahara, and K.
Asamura, "Application of single-sided silicon strip detector to energy and charge
state measurements of medium energy ions in space", Nuclear Inst. and Methods
in Physics Research, A, A 603, pp. 355-360, DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2009.02.004.,
2009.

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Kasahara, S., K. Asamura, K. Ogasawara, Y. Kazama, T. Takashima, M. Hirahara,
and Y. Saito, "A Noise Attenuation Method for the Medium-energy Electron
Measurements in the Radiation Belt", Advances in Space Research, vol. 43, issue
5, 792-801, 2009.

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Kasahara, S., K. Asamura, T. Takashima, M. Hirahara, K. Ogasawara, and Y.
Saito, "Next-Generation Plasma Particle Measurements in the Medium Energy
Range: Development of Cusp Type Electrostatic Analyser and Ion Mass Analysis
Unit", Proc. Future Perspectives of Space Plasma and Particle Instrumentation andInternational Collaborations, pp. 179-182, 2009.

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Kasahara, S., H. Hasegawa, K. Keika, Y. Miyashita, M. N. Nishino, T. Sotirelis, Y.
Saito, and T. Mukai, "Escape of high-energy oxygen ions through magnetopause
reconnection under northward IMF", Annales Geophysicae, 26, 3955-3966, 2008.
Kasahara, S., K. Asamura, K. Ogasawara, T. Mitani, M. Hirahara, T. Takashima, Y.

Saito, and T. Mukai, "Medium Energy Ion Mass Spectrometer Capable ofMeasurements of Three Dimensional Distribution Functions in Space", IEEE
Transactions on Plasma Science, vol. 36, issue 3, pp. 841-847, 2008.

Kasahara, S., K. Asamura, Y. Saito, T. Takashima, M. Hirahara and T. Mukai,“Cusp type electrostatic analyzer for measurements of medium energy charged
particles”, Review of Scientific Instruments, vol.77, 123303, doi:
10.1063/1.2405358, 2006.

(as a coauthor) Ebihara, Y., S. Kasahara, K. Seki, Y. Miyoshi, T. A. Fritz, J. Chen, M. Grande,
and T. Zurbuchen, Simultaneous entry of oxygen ions originating from the Sun
and Earth into the inner magnetosphere during magnetic storms, J. Geophys.
Res., 114, A05219, doi:10.1029/2009JA014120, 2009.
Retino, A., R. Nakamura, A. Vaivads, Y. Khotyiantsev, T. Hayakawa, K. Tanaka,
S. Kasahara , M. Fujimoto, I. Shinohara, J. Eastwood, M. M. Andre, W.
Baumjohann, P. Daly, E. Kronberg, N. Cornilleau-Wehrlin, "Cluster observationsof energetic electrons and electromagnetic fields within a reconnecting thincurrent sheet in the Earth's magnetotail", J. Geophys. Res., 113, A12215,
doi:10.1029/2008JA013511, 2008.
Ogasawara, K., M. Hirahara, W. Miyake, S. Kasahara, T. Takashima, K.
Asamura, Y. Saito, and T. Mukai, "High-resolution detection of 100 keVelectrons using avalanche photodiodes", Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics
Research, A., DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2008.05.05, 2008.