Satoshi YOKOYAMA Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Geography, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University
Dean, Graduate School of Environmental Studies
Member, the Science Council of Japan (SCJ)
Program Officer, Research Center for Science Systems, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Nagoya University Faculty Profile
I was born in 1966 in Iwamizawa City, Hokkaido, Japan. After graduating from the National College of Technology (Kōsen), I worked for Olympus Corporation (formerly Olympus Optical Co.) and engaged in the development project of solid-state image sensors for video cameras. After that, I moved to ENEOS Holdings Inc. (formerly Nippon Mining Co.) as a semiconductor engineer. In 1992, I joined the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers (JOCV) and was dispatched to Laos. I completed my two-year term and returned to Japan in 1994. In 1995, I transferred to the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Saitama University to study the fields of international relations, cultural anthropology, and geography, that I became interested in through my activities in Laos. Later, I entered the Graduate School of Geoscience, the University of Tsukuba, and conducted the research of rural livelihoods in northern Laos. After completing the Ph.D., I worked for Kumamoto University, and then moved to Nagoya University, where I have been up to the present.