• Professional Career

Employment

2021/01 - 2021/11 ?Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
2018/10 - present ? Associate Professor (joint-appointment), National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
2018/04 - present ? Senior Research Scientist, Building Research Institute, National Research and Development Agency (BRI)
2017/04 - 2018/03 ?Assistant Professor, Hiroshima University
2016/01 - present ? Visiting Researcher, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, National Research and Development Agency (NIED)
2016/01 - 2017/03 ?Assistant Professor Special appointment, Hiroshima University
2013/01 - 2015/12 ?Research Fellow, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, National Research and Development Agency (NIED)
2009/04 - 2012/12 ?GCOE Research Fellow, Tohoku University
2006/04 - 2009/03 ?JSPS research fellow

Education
2009/03 ? ? Ph. D. ?Geophysics, School of Science, Tohoku University, Japan
2006/03 ? ? M.S. ? ?Geophysics, School of Science, Tohoku University, Japan
2004/03 ? ? B.S. ? ? Geology, Department of Science, Tohoku University, Japan

• Selected publications

Kita, S., T. Shiina, H. Houston, K Shiomi, Stress drops of intermediate-depth intraslab earthquakes beneath Tohoku, northern Japan. Earth, Planets and Space, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-024-02032-5

Delbridge, BG., R. Burgmann, H. Houston and S. Kita and Y. Asano, A weak subducting slab at intermediate depths below northeast Japan. Science Advances, 2024. DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adh2106

Kita, S., H. Houston, S. Yabe et al., Effects of episodic slow slip on seismicity and stress near a subduction-zone megathrust. Nature Communications, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27453-8

Kita, S., Characteristics of relocated hypocenters of the 2018 M6.7 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake and its aftershocks with a three-dimensional seismic velocity structure. Earth, Planets and Space, 2019. DOI: 10.1186/s40623-019-1100-0

Kita, S., T. Okada, J. Nakajima, T. Matsuzawa and A. Hasegawa, Existence of a seismic belt in the upper plane of the double seismic zone extending in the along-arc direction at depths of 70-100 km beneath NE Japan. Geophysical Research Letters, 2006. doi:10.1029/2006GL028239

• Social contributions

1) Representative of Japan seismological society
2) Representative of Japan geoscience union
3) The Young Scientists’ Prize, The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 2018
4) Young Scientist Award, Sesimological Society of Japan, 2014
5) Kuroda Chika Prize, Graduate school of Science, Tohoku University, 2007

• Link

-Saeko Kita

-Researchmap

-kita_CV.pdf