Motoko Kotani

Profile
Experience
April, 2025
Executive Director of Science, RIKEN
April, 2024
Special Advisor to the President, RIKEN
February, 2024
Member, United Nations 10-Member Group
2024
Executive Vice President for International Research Strategy, Tohoku University
April, 2022
Science and Technology Co-advisor to the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs
October, 2021
ISC Executive Officer, Vice President
April, 2020
Executive Vice President for Research, Tohoku University（until March, 2025）
October, 2019
Executive Research Coordinator, WPI-AIMR, Tohoku University
April, 2019
Director, Advanced Graduate School, Tohoku University
April, 2017
Director, AIMR, Tohoku University (due to the organization's name change)
April, 2017
Member, Council of Science of Japan
June, 2015
President, The Mathematical Society of Japan (until May 2017)
2014
Associate Executive Vice President for Research, Tohoku University (until 2019)
March, 2014
Executive Member, Council for Science and Technology Policy Cabinet Office, JAPAN
April, 2012
Director, WPI-AIMR, Tohoku University (until March 2019)
March, 2011
Deputy Director, Professor, WPI-AIMR, Tohoku University (until March 2012)
2010
Chair, Mathematics Institute, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
August, 2008
Distinguished Professor, Mathematics Institute, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University (until March 2014)
2007
Visiting Professor, Isaac Newton institute, UK
2006
Special Advisor to the President of Tohoku University (until 2013)
January, 2004
Professor, Mathematics Institute, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University
April, 2001
Visiting Professor, Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies (IHES) (until November 2001)
April, 1999
Associate Professor, Mathematics Institute, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University (until 2003)
April, 1997
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics. Faculty of Science, Toho University (until 1999)
September, 1993
Visiting Researcher, Max-Planck Inst. Bonn, Germany (until August 1994)
April, 1990
Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Toho University (until 1997)
Awards
March, 2011
President Education Award of Tohoku University
November, 2005
President Special Award of Tohoku University
May, 2005
The 25th Saruhashi Prize
Service
April, 2020
Board of Governors, Tohoku University（until March, 2025）
April, 2017
Executive Director, RIKEN (until March 2020)
November, 2014
Member, Board of Governors, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology School Corporation (-present)
March, 2008
Member of the Board of Trustees, The Mathematical Society of Japan
Motoko Kotani
Motoko Kotani
Executive Director of Science, RIKEN

Credentials

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