Tomohiro Usui

Tomohiro Usui is a professor at Department of Solar System Sciences, ISAS/JAXA (Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency). He received a diploma in Geology from the Tokyo Institute of Technology and finished Ph.D. (Geochemistry) at the Institute for Study of the Earth's Interior (ISEI), Okayama University in 2004. After that, he worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Tennessee and NASA Johnson Space Center. He was an assistant and associate professor at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and an Associate-PI at Earth-Life Institute at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2012–2018. In 2018 he joined ISAS/JAXA as a faculty member. His current research interest includes the historical evolution of climate, oceans/lakes, and habitability on Mars. He is a PI of Sam-pIe Analysis Working Team and an organizer of Science Board of MMX