Philip Sakimoto
Professor of the Practice, Physics
- Office
- 746 Flanner Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556 - Phone
- +1 574-631-6578
- psakimot@nd.edu
- Website
- https://sustainabilitystudies.nd.edu/sustainability-minor/
Biography
Dr. Phil Sakimoto is Director of the Minor in Sustainability at the University of Notre Dame with responsibilities that include overseeing student progress and senior capstone projects, developing campus-wide sustainability-related curricula, teaching sustainability courses, engaging in related public outreach, and developing community partnerships. He also works within the Catholic Church on matters of creation care, recently assisting the Catholic Climate Covenant in planning and carrying out their national roll-out of the Vatican’s Laudato Si’ Action Platform, and, previously, providing planetarium programming (and a planetarium!) for the Vatican’s exhibition Energy for Our Common Home at the 2017 International Expo in Kazakhstan.
He formerly worked for NASA as the Program Manager and Acting Director of their national Space Science Education and Public Outreach Program as well as being the manager of a wide variety of NASA student development and diversity programs. At Notre Dame he has been the Director of the Program for Academic Excellence in the Center for University Advising and a diversity and outreach specialist for the Department of Physics. Dr. Sakimoto received his B.A. in physics from Pomona College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in astronomy from UCLA.