Kosuke Heki (Visiting Professor)
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences
80 Nandan Road, Shanghai 200030, China
Tel: +86-21-34775291; Fax: +86-21-64384618
E-mail: heki@sci.hokudai.ac.jp
Website: http://center.shao.ac.cn/geodesy/kheki.html

Education

• 1981-1984, Ph.D, Geophysics, Geophysical Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
• 1979-1981, M.Sc, Geophysics, Geophysical Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
• 1975-1979, B.Sc, Geophysics, Geophysical Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Employment

• 2022-2024, Visiting Professor, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS, Shanghai, China
• 2004-2022, Professor, Department of Earth & Planetary Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
• 2001-2004, Professor, Earth Rotation Division, National Astronomical Observatory, Japan
• 1994-2001, Associate Professor, Earth Rotation Division, National Astron. Observatory, Japan
• 1992-1994, Senior Research Official, Kashima Space Research Center, MPT, Japan
• 1990-1992, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dept. Geological Sciences, University of Durham, UK
• 1984-1990, Research Official, Communications Research Laboratory (CRL), MPT, Japan

Research Interests

• Space Geodesy and Astro-geodynamics
• GNSS Seismo-Ionospheric Disturbances

Journal Papers

• Heki, K. (2011), A tale of two earthquakes, Science, 332, 1390-1391, doi: 10.1126/science.1206643. (SCI)
• Heki, K. (2001), Seasonal modulation of interseismic strain buildup in Northeastern Japan driven by snow loads, Science, 293, 89-92. (SCI)
• Heki, K., S. Miyazaki and H. Tsuji (1997), Silent fault slip following an interplate thrust earthquake at the Japan Trench, Nature, 386, 595-597. (SCI)
• Foulger, G., C. Jahn, G. Seeber, P. Einarsson, B. Julian and K. Heki (1992), Post-rifting stress relaxation at the divergent plate boundary in Northeast Iceland, Nature, 358, 488-490. (SCI)
• Heki, K., Y. Hamano and M. Kono (1983), Rotation of the Peruvian Block from palaeomagnetic studies of the Central Andes, Nature, 305, 514-516. (SCI)