TAKEHIKO SATOHPERSONAL DATA
Born in Tokyo, Japan, on 5th December 1962.

CURRENT ADDRESS
Department of Solar System Sciences
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS),
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara-shi
Kanagawa 252-5210, Japan
Phone: +81 70 1170 2759, FAX: +81 42 759 8178
E-mail: satoh@stp.isas.jaxa.jp

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Doctor of Science in Physics, awarded March 1992 (Science University of Tokyo).
Master of Science in Physics, awarded March 1989 (Science University of Tokyo).
Bachelor of Science in Physics, awarded March 1987 (Science University of Tokyo).

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENTProfessor, Department of Solar System Sciences, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science,
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa, Japan,December 2006 – present.
Professor, Department of Space and Astronautical Science, School of Physical Sciences,
SOKENDAI, Sagamihara-shi, Kanagawa, Japan,
December 2006 – present.
Visiting Professor, Department of Cosmosciences, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido
University, Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido, Japan, April 2009 – present.
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto,Japan, May 2001 – November 2006.
Lecturer, Frontier Research Center for Computational Sciences, Science University of Tokyo
Noda-shi, Chiba, Japan, April 1997 – April 2001.
Astrophysicist, Hughes STX Corporation at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,Maryland, USA, October 1993 – March 1997.
Visiting Scientist, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
April 1992 – April 1993, and June 1993 – September 1993.

RESEARCH PROJECTS
Project Scientist, Venus Climate Orbiter (Akatsuki), JAXA

July 2016 – present.
Principal Investigator, IR2 (2-mm) camera onboard Venus Climate Orbiter (Akatsuki), JAXA
April 2001 – present.
Interdisciplinary Scientist, Venus Express, ESA
2006 – 2014.
Discipline Scientist, International Space Science Institute, Beijing (ISS-BJ),
2021 – present.
Co-Investigator, Martian Moon Explorer (MMX) mission, atmospheric science, JAXA
2017 – present.
Co-Investigator, EnVision/VenSpec(-M), ESA
2020 – present.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Planetary atmospheres, magnetospheres, and surfaces. Atmospheric dynamics and aerosol
processes on major planets, such as Jupiter, Venus and Mars. Radiative transfer in planetary andstellar atmospheres. Variable phenomena in jovian planets: changes in clouds, large-scaledisturbances, and auroral emissions. Single and multiple light-scattering theories andcomputational techniques. Instrument development for space missions and ground-based
observations.

HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY
One-year support of the research in residence at the University of Hawaii by Yamada Science
Foundation (February 1992).
Research Aid of Inoue Foundation for Science (February 1994).
Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (Solar & Terrestrial Section Vice-President for 2011-2012;
Section President for 2012-2014; Section Vice-President for 2014-2015; Assistant Secretary
General for 2017-2018; Secretary General for 2018-2020; Assistant Secretary General for 2020 –present).
American Geophysical Union.
Division for Planetary Sciences, American Astronomical Society.
Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences.
Japan Society of Planetary Sciences.
Astronomical Society of Japan.
Society of Japan Science TeachingSELECTED PUBLICATIONS[1] Fukuya, K., T. Imamura, M. Taguchi, T. Fukuhara, T. Kouyama, T. Horinouchi, J. Peralta, M.
Futaguchi, T. Yamada, T.M. Sato, A. Yamazaki, S. Murakami, T. Satoh, M. Takagi, and M.
Nakamura. Unveiling of nightside cloud-top circulation of Venus atmosphere, Nature, 595,511–515, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03636-7, 2021.
[2] Satoh, T., C.W. Vun, M. Kimata, T. Horinouchi, and T.M. Sato. Venus night-side photometry with“cleaned” Akatsuki/IR2 data: Aerosol properties and variations of carbon monoxide. Icarus,335, 114134, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2020.114134, 2021.
[3] Lee, Y.J., A. Garcia Munoz, T. Imamura, M. Yamada, T. Satoh, A. Yamazaki, and S. Watanabe.
Brightness modulations of our nearest terrestrial planet Venus reveal atmospheric superrotation rather than surface features. Nature Communications, 11, 5720, 2020.
[4] Sato, T.M., T. Satoh, H. Sagawa, N. Manago, Y.J. Lee, S. Murakami, K. Ogohara, G.L.
Hashimoto, Y. Kasaba, A. Yamazaki, M. Yamada, S. Watanabe, T. Imamura, and M.
Nakamura. Dayside cloud top structure of Venus retrieved from Akatsuki IR2 observations.
Icarus, 345, 113682, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2020.113682, 2020.
[5] Horinouchi, T., Y.-Y. Hayashi, S. Watanabe, M. Yamada, A. Yamazaki, T. Kouyama, M. Taguchi,T. Fukuhara, M. Takagi, K. Ogohara, S. Murakami, J. Peralta, S.S. Limaye, T. Imamura, M.
Nakamura, T.M. Sato, and T. Satoh. How waves and turbulence maintain the super-rotation ofVenus’ atmosphere. Science, 368, 405-409, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz4439, 2020.
[6] Kouyama, T., M. Taguchi, T. Fukuhara, T. Imamura, T. Horinouchi, T. M. Sato, S. Murakami, G.
L. Hashimoto, Y.-J. Lee, M. Futaguchi, T. Yamada, M. Akiba, T. Satoh, M. Nakamura, Global
structure of thermal tides in the upper cloud layer of Venus revealed by LIR onboard Akatsuki,Geophys. Res. Lett., 46, 9457-9465, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083820, 2019.
[7] Peralta, J., A. Sánchez-Lavega, T. Horinouchi, K. McGouldrick, I. Garate-Lopez, E. F. Young, M.
A. Bullock, Y.-J. Lee, T. Imamura, T. Satoh, S. S. Limaye, New cloud morphologies discoveredon the Venus's night during Akatsuki, Icarus, 333, 177-182, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2019.05.026,
2019.
[8] Kashimura, H., N. Sugimoto, M. Takagi, Y. Matsuda, W. Ohfuchi, T. Enomoto, K. Nakajima, M.
Ishiwatari, T. M. Sato, G. L. Hashimoto, T. Satoh, Y. O. Takahashi, Y.-Y. Hayashi, Planetaryscale streak structure reproduced in high-resolution simulations of the Venus atmosphere witha low-stability layer, Nature Communications, 10, Article number: 23, doi:10.1038/s41467-01807919-y, 2019.
[9] Stallard, T.S., Burrell, A.G., Melin, H. et al. Identification of Jupiter’s magnetic equator throughH3+ ionospheric emission. Nature Astronomy, 2, 773–777, doi:10.1038/s41550-018-0523-z,
2018.
[10] Horinouchi, T., S. Murakami, T. Satoh, J. Peralta, K. Ogohara, T. Kouyama, T. Imamura, H.
Kashimura, S. S. Limaye, K. McGouldrick, M. Nakamura, T. M. Sato, K. Sugiyama, M. Takagi,
S. Watanabe, M. Yamada, A. Yamazaki, E. F. Young, Equatorial jet in the lower to middle cloudlayer of Venus revealed by Akatsuki, Nature Geoscience, 10, 646-651, doi:10.1038/ngeo3016,
2017.
[11] Satoh, T., T. M. Sato, M. Nakamura, Y. Kasaba, M. Ueno, M. Suzuki, G. L. Hashimoto, T.
Horinouchi, T. Imamura, A. Yamazaki, T. Enomoto, Y. Sakurai, K. Takami, K. Sawai, T.

Nakakushi, T. Abe, N. Ishii, C. Hirose, N. Hirata, M. Yamada, S. Murakami, Y. Yamamoto, T.
Fukuhara, K. Ogohara, H. Ando, K. Sugiyama, H. Kashimura, S. Ohtsuki, Performance of
Akatsuki/IR2 in Venus orbit: the first year, Earth, Planets and Space, 69, 154,
doi:10.1186/s40623-017-0736-x, 2017.
[12] Stallard, T. S., Melin, H., Miller, S., Moore, L., O'Donoghue, J., Connerney, J. E. P., Satoh, T.,
West, R. A., Thayer, J. P., Hsu, V. W., and Johnson, R. E. The great cold spot in Jupiter's
upper atmosphere. Geophys. Res. Lett. 44 (7), 3000-3008, DOI: 10.1002/2016GL071956,2017.
[13] Satoh, T., Nakamura, M., Ueno, M., Uemizu, K., Suzuki, M., Imamura, T., Kasaba, Y., Yoshida,S., and Kimata, M. Development and in-flight calibration of IR2: 2-mm camera onboard Japan's
Venus orbiter, Akatsuki. Earth, Planets and Space, 68:74, DOI: 10.1186/s40623-016-0451-z,
2016.
[14] Satoh, T., Ohtsuki, S., Iwagami, N., Ueno, M., Uemizu, K., Suzuki, M., Hashimoto, G. L.,
Sakanoi, T., Kasaba, Y., Nakamura, R., Imamura, T., Nakamura, M., Fukuhara, T., Yamazaki,A., Yamada, M., Venus' clouds as inferred from the phase curves acquired by IR1 and IR2 on
board Akatsuki, Icarus, 248:213–220, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.10.030, 2015.
[15] Takao M. Sato, Takehiko Satoh and 8 co-authors. Cloud top structure of Venus revealed bySubaru/COMICS mid-infrared images. Icarus, 243:386-399, 2014.
[16] Kouyama, T.; Imamura, T.; Nakamura, M.; Satoh, T.; Futaana, Y., Long-term variation in thecloud-tracked zonal velocities at the cloud top of Venus as deduced from Venus Express VMCimages. J. Geophys. Res., 118(1), DOI: 10.1029/2011JE004013, 2013.
[17] Takehiko Satoh, Takeshi Imamura, G. L. Hashimoto, Naomoto Iwagami, Kazuaki Mitsuyama,
Satoko Sorahana, Pierre Drossart, and Giuseppe Piccioni. Cloud structure in venus middle-tolower atmosphere as inferred from VEX/VIRTIS 1.74-μm data. Journal of GeophysicalResearch, 114, E00B37, doi:10.1029/2008JE003184, 2009.
[18] Takehiko Satoh and J.E.P. Connerney. Jupiter’s H3+ emissions viewed in correctedjovimagnetic coordinates. Icarus, 141:236–252, 1999.
[19] Takehiko Satoh and J.E.P. Connerney. Spatial and temporal variations of Jupiter’s H3+emissions deduced from image analysis. Geophysical Research Letters, 26:1789–1792, 1999.
[20] J.E.P. Connerney, Mario Acuna, Norman Ness, and Takehiko Satoh. New models of Jupiter’smagnetic field constrained by the Io flux tube footprint. Journal of Geophysical Research,
103:11929–11939, 1998.
[21] Takehiko Satoh, J.E.P Connerney, and Richard Baron. Emission source model of Jupiter’s H3+aurorae: A generalized inverse analysis of images. Icarus, 122:1–23, 1996.
[22] Takehiko Satoh and Kiyoshi Kawabata. A change of upper cloud structure in Jupiter’s South
Equatorial Belt during the 1989–1990 event. Journal of Geophysical Research, 99:8425–8440,1994.
[23] J.E.P. Connerney, Richard Baron, Takehiko Satoh, and Tobias Owen. Images of excited H3+ atthe foot of the Io flux tube in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Science, 262:1035–1038, 1993.
[24] Takehiko Satoh and Kiyoshi Kawabata. Methane band photometry of the faded South
Equatorial Belt of Jupiter. Astrophysical Journal, 384:298–304, 1992.