Ryuho KataokaRyuho Kataoka, associate professor at the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR), specializes in studies of space physics and is known for his research on auroras and space weather forecasting. He is a recipient of the Ministry of Education, Culure, Sports, Science and Technology's Young Scientist Award 2015, and hosts "Solar Flare and Space Disaster" on NHK Culture Radio. He is the author of many books, including "Aurora!" (2015) and "Space Disaster" (2016), and "Japanese History of Aurora" (2019). He is teaching graduate students at SOKENDAI. He has >130 peer-reviewed papers. He has hosted several workshops about extreme space weather for the last decade and served as the chair of space weather session at the JpGU-AGU joint meeting for several years. Read More Read Less