Hiroshi Matsumoto (engineer)

Career

• 1967: Research assistant at Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
• 1974: Assistant Professor of Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University
• 1981: Assistant Professor of Radio Atmospheric Science Center, Kyoto University
• 1987: Professor of RASC, Kyoto University
• 1992–1998: Director of RASC, Kyoto University
• 2000: Professor of Radio Science Center for Space and Atmosphere, Kyoto University
• 2002: Director of Radio Science Center for Space and Atmosphere, Kyoto University
• 2004: Professor of Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University
• 2005: Director of RISH, Kyoto University
• 2005: Executive Vice-President, Kyoto University
• 2006: Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University
• 2008–2014: President, Kyoto University
• 2015–present: President, RIKEN

  Organizations

• 1999 – Chairman of International Union of Radio Science
• 1999 – Chairman of Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences
• 1999 – Fellow of American Geophysical Union
• 2003 – Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• 2004 – Foreign honorary member of Royal Astronomical Society
• 2005 – Fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

  Prizes

• 1975 – "Study of Whistler mode wave particle interaction over the magnetosphere plasma" was awarded the Tanaka-kan Award by the Japan Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences
• 2006 – Awarded the Yuri Gagarin Medal from the Russian Federation of Cosmonautics
• 2006 – Awarded the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Science and Technology Award
• 2007 – Awarded the Purple Ribbon Medal
• 2008 – Awarded the 2008 Booker Gold Medal from the International Radio Science Union