Masaki Fujimoto

Dr. Masaki Fujimoto is Deputy Director General of the Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. He joined JAXA in 2006 as a Professor of Department of Solar System Sciences. He led the successful effort to recover samples gathered from the Hayabusa 2 asteroid probe. He is also one of the founders of the Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) mission, a mission to return samples from Phobos, one of the Martian moons.