Dr. MATSUMOTO Hiroshi

Career
2015 President, RIKEN
2008 President, Kyoto University (–2014)
2007 Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University
2005 Executive Vice-President (Research and Finance), Kyoto University
2004 Director, Professor, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University
2002 Director, Radio Science Center for Space and Atmosphere, Kyoto University
2000 Professor, Radio Science Center for Space and Atmosphere, Kyoto University
1992 Director, Radio Atmospheric Science Center, Kyoto University
1987 Professor, Radio Atmospheric Science Center, Kyoto University
1981 Assistant Professor, Radio Atmospheric Science Center, Kyoto University
1980 Visiting Researcher, Stanford University
1975 Visiting Researcher, NASA Ames Research Center
1974 Assistant Professor, Kyoto University
1967 Lecturer, Kyoto University

Awards and Honors
2017 Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
2015 Chevalier in the French Legion of Honor
2014 Japan Geoscience Union Fellow
2014 Honorary Doctor of Engineering, University of Bristol
2008 Hasegawa Nagata Award, SGEPSS, Japan
2008 URSI Gold Booker Medal
2007 Medal with Purple Ribbon
2006 Ministers’ Award, Science and Technology Division, The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
2006 Russian Federation of Cosmonautics Gagarin Medal
2004 Associate Award of the Royal Astronomical Society
2003 IEEE Fellow Award
1999 AGU Fellow Award for Space Plasma Physics
1998 NASA Group Achievement Award (GEOTAIL)
1993 NASA Group Achievement Award (GEOTAIL)