Kanjuro MAKIHARA, Doctor of Engineering, received his Bachelor’s degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Tokyo in 1998 and completed his Ph.D. program in the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo in 2004. Since 2004, he has been an Aerospace Project Research Associate at JAXA/ISAS and has devoted himself to energy-recycling vibration suppression for space structures. After serving as a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge, U.K., he has been working as an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Tohoku University since 2011, and in 2019, he became a professor at the Tohoku University. His current research interests involve semi-active vibration suppression, self-powered energy-harvesting, dynamics of flexible structures, and issues pertaining to space debris.
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Short Biography
Kanjuro MAKIHARA, Doctor of Engineering, received his Bachelor’s degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the University of Tokyo in 1998 and completed his Ph.D. program in the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo in 2004. Since 2004, he has been an Aerospace Project Research Associate at JAXA/ISAS and has devoted himself to energy-recycling vibration suppression for space structures. After serving as a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge, U.K., he has been working as an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the Tohoku University since 2011, and in 2019, he became a professor at the Tohoku University. His current research interests involve semi-active vibration suppression, self-powered energy-harvesting, dynamics of flexible structures, and issues pertaining to space debris.
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