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Shigeru Ida graduated from Division of Physics, Kyoto University in 1984. After finishing his PhD in 1989 from Department of Geophysics, University of Tokyo. In 1990 he became an assistant professor in University of Tokyo. In 1993, he moved to Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Tokyo Tech as an associate professor. He was promoted to professor in 2006, and served as Vice-Director of ELSI for ten years from 2012. He is currently President of Astronomical Society of Japan (2023-2025) and also President of Japanese Society of Origins of Life and Astrobiology (2025-2027).