CURRICULUM VITAE(Last updated: 14 July. 2011)

Name:
Yoshifumi Saito
Date of Birth: 20 March 1967
Education:
B. Sci. Kyoto University 1989
Ms. Sci. Kyoto University 1991
Degree of Doctor, Science: University of Tokyo 1995
Professional Carrier:Research Associate, ISAS:
1992-1997
Associate Professor, ISAS:
1997Societies:
The Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences
The Japanese Society of Planetary Sciences
American Geophysical Union
Asia Oceania Geophysical Society<Research Activities＞
My research activities have been related to rocket and satellite experiments for study of space plasmas inthe ionosphere and magnetosphere. I have been participated in developments of the space-borne
instruments for hot plasma and low-energy particle measurements. Based on the obtained data by therocket and satellite experiments I have studied elementary processes for transport and acceleration of
charged particles in the space plasmas and the global electrodynamics of the magnetospheric plasmas.
Following is a list of the rocket and satellite experiment in which I participate(d).
a) Sounding Rocket experiments
1989
S-520-12 : Co-I of LEP (Low Energy Particle experiment)
1997
SS520-1 : PI of ENA (Energetic Neutral Atoms experiment)
2000
SS520-2 : PI of LEP (Low Energy Particle experiment)
2008
ICI-2 : PI of LEP (Low Energy Particle experiment)
2011
ICI-3 : PI of LEP (Low Energy Particle experiment)b) Satellite experiments
1989GEOTAIL: Magnetotail plasmas, magnetosheath, and solar wind
Co-I of LEP (Low Energy Particle experiment)
1995-2003
Nozomi (PLANET-B): Structure and dynamics of the Martian upper atmosphere
Co-I of PSA (Plasma Spectrum Analyzer)
1998Kaguya (SELENE): Interaction between solar wind and Lunar surface, Lunar Atmosphere
PI of PACE (Plasma energy Angle and Composition Experiment)
2004BepiColombo/MMO: Mercury Plasma/Particle environment
PI of MPPE (Mercury Plasma Particle Experiment)
2006MMS: Electron scale phenomena in the Earth’s magnetosphereCo-I of FPI-DISc) Recent Publications
Saito Y., S. Yokota, K. Asamura, T. Tanaka, M. N. Nishino, T. Yamamoto, Y. Terakawa, M. Fujimoto, H.
Hasegawa, H. Hayakawa, M. Hirahara, M. Hoshino, S. Machida, T. Mukai, T. Nagai, T. Nagatsuma, T.
Nakagawa, M. Nakamura, K. Oyama, E. Sagawa, S. Sasaki, K. Seki, I. Shinohara, T. Terasawa, H.
Tsunakawa, H. Shibuya, M. Matsushima, H. Shimizu, F. Takahashi, In-flight Performance and InitialResults of Plasma Energy Angle and Composition Experiment (PACE) on SELENE (Kaguya), Space Sci.
Rev., 154, 1-4, 265-303, 2010, doi:10.1007/s11214-010-9647-x
Saito Y., J.A. Sauvaud, M. Hirahara, S. Barabash, D. Delcourt, T. Takashima, K. Asamura andBepiColombo MMO/MPPE Team, Scientific objectives and instrumentation of Mercury Plasma ParticleExperiment (MPPE) onboard MMO, Planetary and Space Science, Volume 58, Issues 1-2, January 2010,Pages 182-200
Saito Y., S. Sasaki, M. Fujimoto, K. Maezawa, I. Shinohara, Y. Tsuda, and H. Kojima, High time
resolution electron measurement by Fast Electron energy Spectrum Analyzer (FESA), AIP Conf. Proc.
1144, 53 (2009), DOI:10.1063/1.3169304
Saito, Y., S. Yokota, T. Tanaka, K. Asamura, M. N. Nishino, M. Fujimoto, H. Tsunakawa, H. Shibuya, M.
Matsushima, H. Shimizu, F. Takahashi, T. Mukai, and T. Terasawa (2008), Solar wind proton reflection at
the lunar surface: Low energy ion measurement by MAP-PACE onboard SELENE (KAGUYA), Geophys.
Res. Lett., 35, L24205, doi:10.1029/2008GL036077.
Saito Y., S. Yokota, K. Asamura, T. Tanaka, R. Akiba, M. Fujimoto, H. Hasegawa, H. Hayakawa, M.
Hirahara, M. Hoshino, S. Machida, T. Mukai, T. Nagai, T. Nagatsuma, M. Nakamura, K. Oyama, E.
Sagawa, S. Sasaki, K. Seki, T. Terasawa, Low energy charged particle measurement by MAP-PACE
onboard SELENE, Earth Planets and Space, 60, 4, 375-386, 2008