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Takahiro Hiroi is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Brown University. He earned his Ph.D. in Mineralogy from the University of Tokyo in 1988, focusing on asteroid-meteorite spectroscopy. After completing a two-year postdoctoral fellowship with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), he became a visiting scholar at Brown University, supported by the Yamada Science Foundation in 1990. From 1991 to 1994, he served as a Resident Research Associate at NASA's Johnson Space Center through the National Research Council. At Brown University, he currently operates the NASA multi-user facility RELAB. In recognition of his contributions to meteoritics, asteroid 4887 Takihiroi was named in his honor in 2000. Hiroi has participated in several Japanese planetary spacecraft missions, including Hayabusa, Kaguya, and Hayabusa2, where he served as a coinvestigator for science instruments. He has also made appearances on programs like NHK's Cosmic Front and is actively involved in giving lectures at Japanese high schools on multiple occasions each year.
Department: Department of Economics