Motoko Kotani

Profile

Executive Director of Science, RIKEN

President, International Science Council (ISC)

Experience
April, 1990
Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Toho University
September, 1993
Visiting Researcher, Max-Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (until August, 1994)
April, 1997
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics. Faculty of Science, Toho University
April, 1999
Associate Professor, Mathematics Institute, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
April, 2001
Visiting Professor, Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies (IHES) (until November, 2001)
January, 2004
Professor, Mathematics Institute, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
August, 2008
Distinguished Professor, Mathematics Institute, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University (until March, 2014)
March, 2011
Deputy Director, Professor, WPI-AIMR, Tohoku University
April, 2012
Director, WPI-AIMR, Tohoku University (until September, 2019)
April, 2017
Director of Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University (until September 2019)
April, 2020
Executive Vice President for Research, Tohoku University (until March 2025)
2024
President, International Science Council (ISC)
April 2025
Board member, Tohoku University
April 2025
Executive Director of Science, RIKEN
Awards
May, 2005
The 25 th Saruhashi Prize
Service
March, 2014
Executive Member, Council for Science and Technology Policy Cabinet Office, JAPAN
November, 2014
Member, Board of Governors, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology School Corporation (-present)
Motoko Kotani
Motoko Kotani
Executive Director of Science, RIKEN
President, International Science Council (ISC)

Credentials

1990
Doctor of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University
1985
Master of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University
1983
Bachelor of Science, University of Tokyo