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