Prof. Masashi Hayakawa

Prof. Dr. Masashi Hayakawa received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, in 1968 and 1974, respectively. He joined the Research Institute of Atmospherics, Nagoya University, as a Research Associate in 1970, and became an Assistant Professor in 1978, and an Associate Professor in 1979. He worked at Sheffield University (U.K.) as a Visiting Lecturer in 1976 and as a Visiting Professor at Centre de Recherches en Physique de l'Environnement (France) from 1980 to 1981. Since 1991, he has been a Professor at The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan. He was the International Chair of Commission E of URSI and is the former president of the Society of Atmospheric Electricity of Japan. He is a member of URSI; the American Geophysical Union; The Society of Atmospheric Electricity of Japan; The Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Science; the Institute of Electronic Information and Communication Engineers, Japan; the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, etc. His interests are very diverse; they include magnetospheric/ionospheric radio emission, atmospheric electricity (Schumann resonance, sprite, etc.), seismo-electromagnetics, electromagnetic compatibility, direct and inverse problems of wave propagation, and modern methods of signal processing seismogenic radio emission.