Background
Sato, Tetsuya was born in December 1939 in Japan.
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Tetsuya Sato
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Education
Bachelor of Science in Electronics, Kyoto University, Japan, 1963. Master of Science in Electronics, Kyoto University, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy in Electronics, Kyoto University, 1970.
Career
Research associate department physics Kyoto University, 1967—1974. Assistant professor geophysics research laboratory University Tokyo, 1974—1980. Professor Institute Fusion Theory Hiroshima University, 1980—1988.
Professor Theory and Computer Simulation Center National Institute Fusion Science, 1988—2002. Director-general Earth Simulator Center Japan Agency Marine Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan, since 2002. National Research Council-NAS resident research associate National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Aeronomy Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado, 1971—1972.
Alexander von Humboldt stipendiat Max-Plank-Institute Extraterristrische Physik, Garching, Germany, 1972—1973. Visiting scientist Plasma Physics Laboratory Princeton University, New Jersey, 1979. Research scientist Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1980.
Consultant Institute Geophysics and Planetary Physics University of California at Los Angeles, 1981. Professor emeritus Theory and Computer Simulation Center National Institute Fusion Science, since 2002. Guest professor Graduate University for Advanced Studies, since 2003.
Member policy board National Energy Research Science Computing Center.
Achievements
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Nationality
Japanese
Awards
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Recipient Tanakadate Memorial award, Society Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, 1975, Nishina Memorial award, 1986, CVC Prized Works Excellent award, 1998, Computerworld Honors 21st Century Achievement award, 2003, Tokyo Creation award, 2004, John Dawson prize for pioneering advances to plasma physics obtained through simulations, International Conference of Numerical Simulation of Plasmas and Asia Pacific Plasma Theory Conference, 2005.Recipient Tanakadate Memorial award, Society Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, 1975, Nishina Memorial award, 1986, CVC Prized Works Excellent award, 1998, Computerworld Honors 21st Century Achievement award, 2003, Tokyo Creation award, 2004, John Dawson prize for pioneering advances to plasma physics obtained through simulations, International Conference of Numerical Simulation of Plasmas and Asia Pacific Plasma Theory Conference, 2005.