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Satoh earned his Ph.D. in Geophysics at the University of Tokyo in 1993 and also became a lecturer of Saitama Institute of Technology. In 1998, he was a senior visiting scholar at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University. Later, Satoh joined the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology when the development of NICAM first started and still contributes there today. In 2005, he moved to Center for Climate System Research at the University of Tokyo. Since 2011, he has served as professor at AORI and as a senior research scientist at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.

Satoh is a director of the Meteorological Society of Japan, a member of the American Meteorological Society, chief editor of Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, and section chief editor of “Progress in Earth and Planetary Science.” Recently, he was elected as a delegate of the Japan Geoscience Union.