SHUN-ICHIRO KARATO Professor Born:  4 September 1949, Fukuoka Japan            Japanese citizen, permanent resident in U.S.A. Education     University of Tokyo 1968-77     B.Sc., Geophysics, 1972     M.Sc., Geophysics, 1974     Ph.D., Geophysics, 1977 Positions     1977-1989       Assistant Professor, Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo     1981-1985       Research Fellow, Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University     1988                Visiting Scientist, University of Colorado     1988                Visiting Scientist, CSIRO, Melbourne     1988                Visiting Fellow, The Australian National University     1988-1989       Visiting Lecturer, Kyoto University     1989-1992       Associate Professor, University of Minnesota     1992-2001       Professor, University of Minnesota     1995-1996       Visiting Professor, Bayerisches Geoinstitut     2001-               Professor, Yale University     2006-               Visiting Professor, Tohoku University     2008-               Adolph Knopf Professor, Yale University Awards, Honors Yoshida Foundation Fellow 1987 Japan Society of Promotion of Science Fellow 1988 Alexander von Humboldt Prize 1995 Editor's Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for Geophysical Research Letters 1998 Vening Meinesz lecture at the University of Utrecht 1998 Japan Academy Prize 1999 American Geophysical Union Fellow 2000 Birch lecture (AGU) 2004 Vening Meinesz medal (Vening Meinesz School of Geodynamics) 2006 Professional Society Memberships     Physical Society of Japan     American Geophysical Union     Mineralogical Society of America     The Planetary Society Professional Activities     Convenor, Symposium on plasticity of solids and rheology of the earth, Tokyo    1985     Convenor, Symposium on the Earth's deep interior and dynamics of subducting slabs held during IASPEI meeting at Istanbul    1989     Convenor, Symposium on physical properties of rocks and minerals held during IGC meeting at Kyoto    1992     Convenor, Symposium on rheology and lithospheric deformation, IUGG, Boulder, CO    1995     Co-chairman, Inter-Union Commission of Lithosphere, Working Group 6 (Structure, Physical Properties, Composition, and Dynamics)    1985-1990     Member, Physical Properties of Earth Materials (AGU)    1992-1994     Chairman, Mineral and Rock Physics Committee (AGU)    1996-1998     Member, Wave Propagation (Anisotropy) (IASPEI)    1995-present     Convenor, Seismic anisotropy (IUGG)    1999     Advisory Committee of CSEDI    1999-     Advisory Committee of IFREE (Institute for Frontier Research on Earth Evolution)    2001-     Member, NSF geophysics panel    2001-2004     Advisory Committee of NRC    2001-2004     Executive Committee of COMPRES    2001-2005     Convenor of MSA workshop “Plastic Deformation”    2002     Member of Science Council of Japan    2006-     Co-convenor of an AGU session     2006     Co-convenor of an AGU session     2007     Convenor of a session (mantle mineralogy and rheology) for IGC-33    2008     Co-convenor of a session (Earth’s deep interior) for IGC-33    2008     Member of review committee for the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Hokkaido University (Japan), 1997.     Member of review committee for the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1999.     Member, Executive committee of Institute for Study of Earth’s Interior at Misasa    2005-     Advisory panel of VLab (University of Minnesoa)    2004-     Editorial Board of Tectonophysics    1992-present     Associate Editor of Journal of Geophysical Research - Red    1998-2006     Editorial Board of Pure and Applied Geophysics    1998-present     Editorial Board of Journal of Geodynamics    1998-present           updated 04/2008