RS&GIS; welcomes visiting faculty member
The Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems (RS&GIS;) field of study, School of Engineering and Technology welcomes Dr. Seishiro Kibe (left), who is seconded by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as a visiting professor starting from July 2006.
Dr. Kibe completed his bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering in 1975, his master's in Structural Dynamics in 1977 and his doctorate in Engineering in 1981, all from Tokyo University.
He has devoted 15 years to space debris issues as a leading researcher for Japan's related activities, and has been one of the official delegates to the International Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC) and the Science and Technology Subcommittee of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. Owing to his extensive contribution to the space debris issue, he received the award for exquisite research activity from the minister of Japan's Science and Technology Agency in 2000. From 1999 through 2003, he also worked for the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology as a full professor.
On the merger of three main space related organizations of Japan in 2003, he moved to the Strategic Planning and Management Department of JAXA as deputy director and returned to the Institute of Aerospace Technology in JAXA as advisor to the director in 2005.
He can be contacted at Room W243, Academic Building, Ext. 6125, e-mail: kibe@ait.ac.th