Hiroaki Yoshimura

Hiroaki Yoshimura received his B.S.(1986), M.S.(1988) and Ph. D.(1995), all from Waseda University. He joined School of Science and Engineering at Waseda University as a research associate in 1992, an assistant professor in 1995, an associate professor in 1997 and he became a full professor in 2003. He was appointed as a visiting faculty at Dynamical Systems and Control in Division of Applied Science and Engineering, sponsored by Jerry Marsden at California Institute of Technology during 2002-2003. Since 2007, he has been a professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics in Department of Applied Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering of Waseda University. His research concerns are focused on geometric mechanics, dynamical systems and classical field theories; in particular, Dirac structures, Lagrange-Dirac dynamical systems with symmetry and applications to nonholonomic systems, circuits, continuum mechanics and nonequilibrium thermodynamics, etc. He is also concerned with space mission design based on restricted three-body problems, Lagrangian coherent structures in fluids, and mathematical modeling of cavitation bubbles with induced shock waves.