Experience:
2015 - Assistant professor, Research Administration office (URA office),
Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
2014 -2015 Assistant professor, ICeMS, Kyoto University, Japan
2006 -2014 Research Fellow, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Laboratory of Cell Biology
Advisors: John Hammer III, PhD. (Edward D. Korn, PhD)
2003 – 2006 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Advisor: Thomas D. Pollard, M.D.
Education:
2003 Ph.D. Department of Physics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Mentor; PhD. Shin’ichi Ishiwata
A study on the Polymerization-depolymerization dynamics of actin by direct observation of single filaments
2000 M.S. Department of Physics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Mentor; PhD. Shin’ichi Ishiwata
1998 B.S. Department of Applied Physics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Fellowships:
2003 – 2006 Research Fellowship for postdoctoral fellows
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2001 – 2003 Research Fellowship for graduate students
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2000 - 2001 WISE; Waseda University Research Fellowship