Since May 2019, Dr. Najwa Aaraj has been the Chief Researcher of the Cryptography Research Center and the Autonomous Robotics Center at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), United Arab Emirates (UAE) where she leads the research and development of cryptographic and quantum communication technologies, as well as the advancement of autonomous robotics and self-navigating vehicles.
Dr. rer. nat. habil., Saxon State Ministry of Science and Fine Arts, Germany, June 13 2003
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, High Attestation Comission of Azerbaijan Republic, March 31 1995
Ph.D. Soviet Union Academy of Sciences, USSR November 29, 1988
Professor Ugur Abdulla received Ph.D. in Mathematics from Soviet Union Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Physical & Mathematical Sciences degree from High Attestation Comission of the Azerbaijan Republic, Habilitation Doctor degree in Mathematics from Saxon Ministry of Art and Sciences in Germany.
I am an ecologist working at the interface of communities and ecosystems. After graduating from the University of Michigan, I earned a master’s degree in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation from the University of Florida researching the responses of forest bat communities to fire. I then did my PhD in Integrative Biology from UC Berkeley studying the assembly of carnivorous plant-associated microbial communities.
MS Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh 2002.
BE Computer Science and Engineering, University of Madras 1998.
Mahesh grew up in India and received his Bachelors' in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Madras (1998). Following a two year stint in the Indian software industry, he returned to academia and earned his MS Electrical Engineering (2002), MS Physics (2004) and PhD Physics (2006), all from the University of Pittsburgh. He then undertook postdoctoral terms at the Center for Nonlinear Studies and the Materials Physics Applications Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory (2006 - 2009) and the Applied Math.
PhD Biological Sciences (Free University of Brussels, 2010)
Master of Advanced Studies in Sciences (Free University of Brussels, 2006)
Master in Biological Sciences (Free University of Brussels, 2005)
I am an ecologist and evolutionary biologist with a special interest in insects and their microbes. I was born and grew up in Belgium, obtained my Ph.D. in 2010 from the Free University of Brussels (ULB), and successively moved to the Hokkaido University, the National University of Singapore, and the University of Sydney before joining OIST in 2017. My work makes extensive use of next-generation sequencing technologies to investigate the ecology and evolution of termites, cockroaches, and their microbes.
Associate Professor and PI of the Marine Physics and Engineering Unit. Amin CHABCHOUB received his PhD from Hamburg University of Technology and holds an honorary professorial appointment at the University of Melbourne. He was Assistant Professor of Hydrodynamics at Aalto University, Associate Professor in Environmental Fluid Mechanics at the University of Sydney, and Associate Professor (Hakubi Fellowship) at Kyoto University.
PhD, Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2006
MS, Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2002
BEng, Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Surat, India, 2000.
Awards
Student's Choice Teaching Award, OIST, 2019
Robert E.
PhD in Mathematics, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil, 1999
BSc in Mathematics, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil, 1994
Carlos Cid was awarded his PhD in Mathematics (in the area of combinatorial group theory) in 1999 at the Universidade de Brasília, Brazil. He moved to Europe in early 2000, to take on a post-doctoral researcher position at RWTH-Aachen, Germany. In Aachen he worked on applications of symbolic computation methods for solving systems of partial differential equations. In 2001 Carlos joined a network security startup in Dublin, Ireland, as a software engineer, where he stayed for 2.5 years.
M.A., Ph.D. in Physics. University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
B.S. with Honors in Mathematics. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Employment
Okinawa Inst. Of Sci. & Tech., Grad. Univ., Okinawa, Japan
Full Professor, Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit
Nov 2023 - Present
Associate Professor, Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit
Apr 2018 - Oct 2023
Erik De Schutter was born in Antwerp, Belgium. He studied medicine and got his MD in 1984 at the University of Antwerp, where he subsequently specialized as a neuropsychiatrist. During his medical residency he started work on computational modeling of central pattern generation in the leech. In 1990 he became a research fellow at the California Institute of Technology where he developed his famous Purkinje cell model. He returned in 1993 to the University of Antwerp to start the Theoretical Neurobiology group, with a focus on modeling the cerebellum.
Habilitation, Biomathematics, University of Vienna, Austria, 2000
PhD, Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands, 1997
Master’s degree, Physics, University of Aachen, Germany, 1994
Bachelor’s degree, Physics, University of Aachen, Germany, 1990
Ulf Dieckmann is working on eco-evolutionary dynamics, adaptive dynamics theory, speciation theory, food-web dynamics, spatial ecology, life-history theory, fisheries management, fisheries-induced evolution, cooperation evolution, common-good management, disease evolution, network dynamics, and systemic risk. In 1994, Ulf received his master’s degree in theoretical physics from the University of Aachen, Germany. In 1997, he completed his PhD research in theoretical biology at Leiden University, The Netherlands.
PhD (1991), BS (1984), and MS (1986), Department of Mathematical Engineering and Information Physics, The University of Tokyo
I want to understand how we learn motor skill, make decisions, imagine the future, and communicate and collaborate with others. And understanding means I can build machines that can do the same or more. That is why I study reinforcement learning and probabilistic inference, and how they are realized in the brain.
PhD. Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, The University of Texas
B.S. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
I am a biologist with broad interests in the ecology and evolution of biodiversity. I was born in Montreal, Canada, and grew up North Carolina, USA, before pursuing undergraduate work at the University of Arizona and graduate work at the University of Texas at Austin. I was a fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan from 2009-2012. Since 2012 I have been a faculty member at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology where I lead the Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit. In academic year 2021-2022, I was the Mary
Artur Ekert is one of the pioneers of quantum cryptography. His research extends over most aspects of information processing in quantum-mechanical systems. It is a cross-disciplinary field bringing together theoretical and experimental quantum physics, computer science and information theory. Its scope ranges from deep fundamental issues in physics to prospective commercial exploitation by the computing and communications industries. His work is mostly theoretical but its results also bear directly on issues of experimental implementation.
PhD Polytechnic Universiy of Madrid, Faculty of Computer Science.
Master in International Business Administration ICEX-CECO Business School.
Diplôme d’ingénieur (MSc) École nationale supérieure des télécommunications (now called Télecom Paris). Polytechnic Institute of Paris.
Ingeniero de Telecomunicaciones (MSc) Polytechnic University of Madrid, Faculty of Telecommunications.
David Elkouss holds master's degrees in electrical engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) and Telecom Paris. During his master's studies, he became passionate about (classical) error correction and the fundamental limits of communications. He moved to the computer science faculty at UPM to earn his Ph.D. optimizing error-correcting codes for quantum key distribution. After the Ph.D., he held two postdoctoral positions.
Master Degree, Computer Science, Università degli studi di Salerno
Bachelor Degree, Computer Science, Università degli studi di Salerno
Amedeo Roberto's research focuses on information measures, mathematical objects that lie at the intersection of Information Theory, Probability Theory, Functional Analysis, and Statistics. These measures are crucial in practical problems such as data compression, communication, and estimation. By integrating concepts from these various fields, his research seeks to deepen the understanding of information measures, blending theoretical insights with real-world applications.
Doctor of Philosophy in Cognitive Science (D.Phil., University of Sussex, 2010)
Master of Engineering in Computer Science and Cybernetics (M.Eng., University of Reading, 2004)
International Baccalaureate Bilingual Diploma (I.B., International School Manila, 2000)
Froese is a cognitive scientist with a background in computer science and complex systems. He investigates the interactive basis of life and mind with a variety of methods, including evolutionary robotics, agent-based modeling, sensory substitution interfaces, artificial neural networks, and virtual reality. He is particularly known for his contributions to the field of artificial life and to the enactive approach to cognitive science.
Izumi Fukunaga grew up in Japan and Malaysia, and went to London, UK to study neuroscience. She came to OIST in 2017 to investigate how sensory circuits in the brain function.
My research career had its beginnings in undergraduate summer internships – one in an organic chemistry lab and another in a gene regulation lab at the University of Toronto where I first found the excitement of experimental problem solving. For my PhD, I joined Dr. Suzanne Pfeffer’s group at Stanford University where I studied intracellular membrane traffic. Subsequently, attracted by the field of neuroscience, I received my postdoctoral training at the Salk Institute under the mentorship of Dr. Chuck Stevens.
Prof Igor Goryanin has graduated as applied mathematician (computer science department) from Moscow Engineering Physical Institute. He has got his PhD in biophysics in the Institute of Biophysics, Russia Academy of Sciences (1995) where he has started to develop systems biology software.
Selected Publications
R. Abe and S. Hikami, Critical exponents and scaling relations in 1/n expansion, Prog. Theor. Phys.49 (1973) 442. https://doi.org/10.1143/PTP.49.442
S. Hikami, E. Brezin, Three-loop calculations in the two dimensional non-linear sigma model, J. Phys. A: Math.Gen. 11 (1978), 1141. https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/11/6/015
S. Hikami, T. Tsuneto, Phase transition of quasi-two dimensional planar system,Prog. Theor. Phys. 63(1980) 387. https://doi.org/10.1143/PTP.63.387
S. Hikami, AI. Larkin, Y.
2012 PhD in Theoretical Physics, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
2008 Diplom (equivalent), Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
2006 Bachelor of Science with Honours, The Australian National University, Australia
Select Publications
Julian De Vuyst, Stefan Eccles, Philipp A. Höhn and Josh Kirklin, "Gravitational entropy is observer-dependent", arXiv:2405.00114
Anne-Catherine de la Hamette, Thomas D. Galley, Philipp A. Höhn, Leon Loveridge and Markus P. Müller, "Perspective-neutral approach to quantum frame covariance for general symmetry groups", arXiv:2110.13824
Shadi Ali Ahmad, Thomas D. Galley, Philipp A. Höhn, Maximilan P. E.
PhD (Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics), Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 2017
MSc. (Parasitology), University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic, 2012
I am broadly interested in major evolutionary transitions such as the origin of the eukaryotic cell and its symbiotic organelles, mitochondria and plastids. I work at the interface of multiple disciplines, particularly evolutionary biology, cell biology, genomics, microbiology, biochemistry, and computational biology. My favorite model systems are any symbiotic organisms, insects, protists, and marine microbes.
I grew up near Prague, did my graduate work in Budweis, and then my research brought me to the USA, UK, Canada, and finally Japan.
PhD Chemistry, University of Maryland, College Park, 2009
B.Sc. Chemistry, Kazan State University, Russia (2003)
Julia Khusnutdinova received her Ph.D. degree in Organometallic Chemistry at the University of Maryland in College Park, USA. She then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Washington University working on organopalladium(III) complexes, and in 2012 she joined the group of Prof. David Milstein at the Weizmann Institute of Science as a Dean of Faculty postdoctoral fellow working on carbon dioxide conversion to methanol and atom-economical transformations catalyzed by Ru pincer complexes.
2005 – 2008 PhD degree in Biology from University of California at San Diego
2003 – 2004 Master of Arts degree in Population Biology from University of California at Davis
1996 – 2000 Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology and Ecology from Simon's Rock College
Fyodor started his research career in the year 2000 in the lab of Eugene Koonin at NCBI, NIH after his BA degree. The main focus of his research was evolutionary genomics and bioinformatics. In 2003 Fyodor continued on to University of California at Davis graduating with an MA degree. In 2005 with the help of an NSF Graduate Fellowship he started his PhD in University of California at San Diego graduating in 2008.
Bernd Kuhn earned a PhD in Physics from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, working at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry. In 2001, he received a prestigious fellowship by the Ernst Rudolf Schloeßmann Foundation of the Max Planck Society. This fellowship allowed him to continue his project at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany. In 2004, he joined a virology and a neuroscience laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
D.Sc. (Biophysics) Department of Biophysics, Kyoto University, 1980
B.Sc. (Biophysics) Department of Biophysics, Kyoto University, 1975
My love of membranes was accidentally initiated when I, a senior majoring in physics at that time, entered a wrong lecture room where Prof. Shun-ichi Ohnishi of Kyoto University happened to be lecturing about the Singer-Nicolson’s fluid mosaic model in his membrane course in 1974, just two years after the publication of this model.
‘Habilitation’ to direct research, University of Lille I, France, 1996
Ph.D. in Life and Health Sciences, University of Lille I, France, 1992
Short Bio
Vincent Laudet has performed the first evolutionary analysis of the nuclear hormone receptor (NR) superfamily focusing on: (i) the study of retinoids and thyroid hormone receptors in the evolutionary process through Evo/Devo studies using amphioxus as a model organisms; (ii) the study of the evolution of ligand-binding abilities of various NRs and the origin of NR ligands; (iii) the effects of environmental pollutants such as bisphenol
Master Degree (Laurea) Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology (Milan University)
I am an organic chemist with broad interests in biochemistry and protein evolution. I was born and grew up in Italy. After pursuing a master in medicinal chemistry in the Netherlands, I started my doctoral studies in organic chemistry in ETHZ (Switzerland). During my PhD I moved to Max Plank Institute (Germany) along with my mentor and there finished my doctoral studies. As postdoctoral fellow I spent the last four years studying enzyme evolution and engineering in Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel).
After graduation from his undergraduate program at Fudan University, Qing Liu started his study on nonlinear partial differential equations at the University of Tokyo and received his PhD in Mathematical Sciences in 2011. He continued his research work as a postdoctoral associate at University of Pittsburgh from 2011 to 2015. He was appointed as an assistant professor in 2015 and later promoted to associate professor at Fukuoka University. Qing joined OIST as an associate professor in 2022.
Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, UC Berkeley, USA, 2004-2006
PhD, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK, 2005
BA, MSci, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK, 2000
Christine Luscombe grew up in Kobe, Japan. After receiving her Bachelor’s degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 2000, she worked with Profs. Andrew Holmes and Wilhelm Huck in the Melville Laboratory of Polymer Synthesis at the University of Cambridge where her research focused on surface modifications using supercritical carbon dioxide for her PhD. She received the Syngenta Award for best organic chemistry project for her PhD. In January 2004, she joined the group of Prof.
Following a degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge University (1993-1996), Nick studied for a PhD in structural biology with Janet Thornton at University College London on the basis for specificity of DNA-binding proteins (1996-2000). He moved to Yale University as an Anna Fuller Postdoctoral Fellow with Mark Gerstein, where he shifted research focus to genomics with a particular emphasis on gene regulation in yeast (2000-2004).
Professor
Nationality
Japan
Education
1988 BSc, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo,
1990 MSc, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo
1994 PhD, Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo
Research and Professional Experience
1992 Research Associate, Laboratory of Genetics, University of Tokyo
1995 Research fellow (HFSP long-term fellowship), King’s College London
Diplom (M.Sc.) University of Regensburg, Germany, 2007
Franz Meitinger studied biology at the University of Regensburg and pursued a Ph.D. in cell biology at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. During his doctoral work, he investigated the connection between cell division, polarity, and aging. He conducted his postdoc at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in San Diego, where he discovered novel mechanisms of mitotic quality control and centrosome assembly using genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing screens.
PhD in Physics, The California Institute of Technology
PhD in Biology, The University of Cambridge (MRC LMB)
BS, Yale University
After discovering the first "zinc finger" as an experimental biologist [1,2], Miller worked for more than a decade in theoretical condensed matter physics [3] at Caltech, AT&T Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, the University of Chicago, NEC Princeton, and Princeton University. He joined OIST in 2008.
The primary objective of Professor Mitarai’s research is to understand the role of ocean turbulence in regulating biological processes and its consequences for population structure and dynamics of marine ecosystems, through international collaborations.
Hiroko Miyahara studies long-term solar activity variations on centennial and longer timescales, as well as the underlying mechanisms, through the analysis of cosmic-ray-induced isotopes in tree rings, ice cores, and sediments. Her particular interests include the Grand Solar Minima, when the Sun experienced extremely weak activity conditions for decades.
20 April 1995: D. Phil (Quantum Optics), University of Waikato (NZ)
19 April 1991: M. Sc (1st class honors), University of Waikato (NZ)
14 April 1989: B. Sc (Chemistry and Physics), University of Waikato (NZ)
William John MUNRO received his D. Phil degree in Physics from the University of Waikato (NZ) in 1995 and has spent the majority of his career as an industrial scientist in both Hewlett Packard and NTT Basic Research Laboratories. Within NTT BRL he was the founding director of its research center for Theoretical Quantum Physics and a senior member of its technical staff.
At heart, Gene Myers, is an algorithmicist – a computer scientist who invents time and memory efficient methods for solving precisely formulated computational problems. Early in his career he was introduced to the then emerging field of bioinformatics and became fascinated with problems involved in comparing and analyzing DNA and protein sequences. Through the 80’s he developed numerous fundamental algorithms in this area, the most well-known of which is the BLAST program. One of the big draws of the work was its interdisciplinarity – he loved
Mar. 1993, Bachelor of Science, The University of Tokyo
Mar. 1995, Master of Science, The University of Tokyo
Mar. 1998, Doctor of Science, The University of Tokyo
The very existence of the universe itself is a mystery, and when we contemplate it, we cannot help but feel a sense of mystery. When we are confronted with the many mysterious phenomena and mysterious celestial bodies in the universe, we cannot help but feel that we have come into contact with something far beyond human knowledge. However, we do not regard them as mysteries or beyond human knowledge but try to understand them by the wisdom of humankind, which we call astrophysics.
PhD in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, USA (2006)
BS in Plant Biology, University of California, Davis, USA (1999)
Professor of the Biological Design Unit. Naomi studies the construction, function, and evolution of plant cells and organs, which are highly adaptable to the changing environment. She explores the form-function-environment landscape to uncover the underlying design principles, creating gradients of biological forms (and their mimics) by fabrication and reprograming of biological development.
Dr. rer. nat., Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research and Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
MSc Chemistry, University of Tokyo
BSc Chemistry, University of Tokyo
Akimitsu Narita was born and raised in Yokohama, Japan. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Chemistry at the University of Tokyo under the supervision of Professor Eiichi Nakamura. He then joined Professor Klaus Müllen's group at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPIP) in Mainz, Germany and obtained his doctorate in Chemistry from Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in 2014. In the same year, he became a project leader in the Synthetic Chemistry Department at MPIP.
B.Sc. in Physics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, 2005
B.A. in Computer Science, Open University of Israel, 2003
My primary interest is quantum gravity in finite regions of space. As a meandering route to this end, I study higher-spin gravity in de Sitter space.
OIST Center for Quantum Technologies
This unit is a member of the OIST Center for Quantum Technologies (OCQT)
Kae Nemoto is a professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology and the Director of the OIST Center for Quantum Technologies. She is also a professor at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, where she serves as the director of the Global Research Center for Quantum Information Science and the co-director of the Japanese-French Laboratory for Informatics (JFLI).
Graduate school of Life Science, Tohoku University
Since Midori studied starfish oocytes as an undergraduate at Ochanomizu University, her passion has been cell organelles, centrosomes, that organize the microtubule network during cell division and development. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo and conducted her first postdoctoral work at the National Institute of Genetics in Mishima. She then moved to the United States to pursue her second postdoctoral studies. Since August 2022, she has been conducting her research at OIST, initially as a Science and Technology Associate.
2022 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine Svante Pääbo has developed techniques and approaches that allow DNA sequences from archaeological and paleontological remains to be determined. This has allowed ancient DNA from extinct organisms, humans, animals and pathogens to be studied.
PhD Molecular Biology & Virology, University of California, San Diego/ Salk Institute
BS Biology, University of California, San Diego
Dr. Gerald Pao worked originally on the molecular evolution of proteins from a structural and computational perspective as an undergraduate at the University of California, San Diego working with Milton H. Saier, Joseph Kraut, Flossie Wong-Staal, Russell F Doolittle and Tony Hunter. From there he went on to be mainly an experimentalist to study the epigenetics of cancer and stem cells and the development of viral vectors for basic science at the Salk institute during his PhD and postdoc with Inder M Verma.
Doctorate Universita’ Degli Studi di Milano, Italy, 1999
MSc Universita’ Degli Studi di Milano, Italy, 1996
Timothy Ravasi is a Professor of Marine Science, the Principal Investigator of the Marine Climate Change Unit at OIST and an Adjunct Professor at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University in Australia. Tim’s research interest lies on the current status of coral reef ecosystems. He is particularly interested in looking at ecologically relevant issues in the light of rapid environmental change, such as climate change.
PhD, Neuroscience, NIH-Brown University Graduate Partnership Program, 2014
BS, Neuroscience, Brown University, 2009
Sam Reiter is currently an Associate Professor and head of the Computational Neuroethology Unit at the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology (OIST). He did PhD work at Brown University and the US National Institutes of Health, and postodoctoral work at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research. His research interests center around understanding general principles of animal behavior and its neural basis, combining experimental and computational approaches.
PhD in Aeronautical Engineering, City, University of London (2016)
MSc in Aeronautical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano (2013)
Bachelor Degree in Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Milano (2010)
Marco was born in Italy where he studied Aeronautical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. He then moved to London (UK) for his doctoral studies and to Stockholm (Sweden) and Tokyo (Japan) for his postgraduate research.
1997 PhD "Non Fermi-liquid physics in or near to one dimension", University of Warwick
1993 BSc in Physics with Theoretical Physics (1st class Hons), University of Birmingham
Nic Shannon is a theoretical physicist, working in the fields of condensed matter and statistical physics. He has a strong interest in quantum magnets, and other examples of "Quantum Matter", where large numbers of quantum particles interact.
Educated in the UK, Prof. Shannon spent time as a Postdoc at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), CEA Saclay (France) and the Max Plank Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems (Germany) before up taking a permanent position at the University of Bristol (UK) in 2006.
OIST Provost and Professor of the Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit. Amy's research is focused on rheology and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics at the nano-biointerfaces, coupled with microfluidics, with the aid of novel 3D printing, microfabrication and imaging techniques. Her research usually combines experiments, theory, and modeling to explore the dynamics and properties of flows involving nano- or micro-structures. Her research group also develops lab-on-a-chip platforms for biosensing and disease diagnostic applications.
2010-2015 Doctoral studies in molecular biology, Aarhus University (Denmark)
2007-2010 Bachelor studies in gene technology, Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia)
Assistant Professor and head of the Marine Structural Biology Unit. Oleg's research focuses on characterizing marine organisms by structural biological methods such as cryoelectron tomography and single particle cryoelectron microscopy. Coupled with orthogonal analytical techniques such as proteomics and transcriptomics, his research enables unparalleled, near-atomic level insights into the inner workings of our oceans’ inhabitants.
Selected Publications
L O'Shaughnessy, T Izawa, I Masai, JW Shaevitz & GJ Stephens, Dynamics of dominance in interacting zebrafish. PRX Life, 2(4), p.043006, https://doi.org/10.1103/PRXLife.2.043006 (2024)
2009 PhD in Biological Physics, Eötvös University, Budapest
2004 MSc in Physics, Eötvös University, Budapest
During his scientific career so far Gergely has developed quantitative models addressing questions spanning different biological disciplines. Starting from a PhD in Biological Physics his most significant contributions have been developing and applying probabilistic models of genome evolution that have opened up possibilities to exploit previously untapped sources of phylogenetic information in genome-scale datasets and, more recently, in developing analytical models and stochastic simulations of somatic evolution.
Master in Applied Physics (the University of Tokyo)
Hiroki was born, raised and nurtured in Japan during his youth. In his master and Ph.D, he worked on quantum optics involving squeezed light, Schrödinger’s kittens and tons of optical mirrors. After that he decided to try his luck in the United Kingdom where he also started new research about ion trapping and cavity QED. After turbulent but enjoyable eight and half years in the UK, he returned to Japan in one piece. Then at University of Tokyo he experienced research using superconducting Josephson circuits.
2017-2024 Science and Technology Associate at OIST
2016-2017 Senior intern at Weizmann Institute of Science, D. Milstein lab
2012-2016 Postdoc at Weizmann Institute of Science, D. Milstein lab
2011-2012 Research assistant at Waseda University, T. Shibata lab
2006-2011 Ph.D. at University of Alberta, S. H. Bergens lab
Born in Tokyo, Satoshi was trained as an organic chemist at Waseda University, T. Shibata lab, during his B.Sc. He then moved to Canada and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Alberta, where he met organometallic chemistry (the study of molecules consisting of metals and organic parts) and studied the hydrogenation of carbonyl compounds at S. H. Bergens lab. After one year of teaching experience at Waseda University, he moved to Israel for his postdoctoral research. At the Weizmann Institute of Science, D.
The Chemistry and Chemical Bioengineering Unit develops methods and strategies for the construction of organic molecules that contribute to biomedical research and drug discovery.
Research Interests
Jun Tani has been interested in a wide range of research topics, including developmental psychology, psychiatric disorders, higher-order cognition, phenomenological consciousness, primary intersubjectivity, and artificial life. His group has conducted various robotics experiments using the frameworks of complex adaptive systems and the free energy principle.
Chikae is a microbial and ecosystem ecologist who is interested in the impacts of environmental changes, such as land use and climate changes, on soil microbial communities and their roles in ecosystem functions, including maintaining plant growth and health, carbon and nutrient cycling, and environmental pathogen levels. She earned her Bachelor's, Master's, and Ph.D. degrees at Kyoto University, specializing in forest science under the supervision of Dr. Ryunosuke Tateno, supported by a JSPS DC1 fellowship. Her Ph.D.
Ph.D. Neurobiology, University College London (UCL), 2010
M.S. Medical Biotechnology, University of Padua, Italy, 2006
Marco Terenzio carried out his PhD in the laboratory of Prof. Giampietro Schiavo at Cancer Research UK in London, with the aim of identifying regulators of neurotrophin receptors endosomal distribution in motor neurons. After a brief first postdoc at the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, Germany, where he studied the mechanisms of mitochondrial clearance, he joined the laboratory of Prof.
Ph.D. in Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biology (Sep 2019)
Diploma in Biochemistry, University of Tübingen (2014)
Molecular Bioengineering Lab
Saacnicteh is a structural biochemist studying how proteins evolve from simple peptides into sophisticated nanomachines that sustain life. Her research integrates protein engineering, structural biology, and computational biology to design proteins with electron transfer and photoactive capabilities to drive innovations in sustainable catalysis and energy solutions.
Education and Positions
Postdoctoral researcher, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Postdoctoral researcher, Centre de Physique Théorique de Luminy, Aix-Marseille University, France
Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Lecturer, San Francisco State University, U.S.A.
Ph.D. in Physics, University of California, Irvine, U.S.A.
Completed an honors degree in psychology, professional qualifications in clinical psychology and a PhD in neuroscience at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Following this she took up an appointment as a clinical psychologist in a large public hospital before returning to an academic position in the Psychology Department at the University of Otago. She taught graduate and undergraduate courses in adult and child abnormal psychology and graduate courses child assessment and intervention.
PhD in Quantum Cosmology, Supervisor Prof Don Page, University of Alberta, Canada (1991)
BA (mod) in Theoretical Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (1986)
Professor Jason Twamley is a leading researcher in the theoretical physics of quantum science and technology with a particular emphasis on hybrid quantum systems – systems where one marries together different types of quantum systems to achieve an overall functionality which no one subsystem possesses. Professor Twamley originally trained as a lecturer in Ireland and there pioneered many European Union projects focusing on fullerene and diamond based quantum technologies and won a number of EU STREPS and Integrated Projects.
Dr. Marylka Yoe Uusisaari entered the neuroscience field from computer science and programming background in Helsinki, Finland, intrigued by the similarities and differences between artificial and neuronal computation and intelligence. This interest in the brain as the computational controller of the body machinery continued through her post-doctoral research first in RIKEN BSI, where she found her way into the cerebellar networks and established the diversity of neuronal classes in the cerebellar output nuclei.
Ph.D. in Statistical Science, March 2010, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, May 2005, Colorado State University, U.S.A.
B.S. in Computer Science, Mar 2003, University of Aizu, Japan
Makoto Yamada received the PhD degree in statistical science from The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics), Tokyo, in 2010. He has held positions as a postdoctoral fellow with the Tokyo Institute of Technology from 2010 to 2012, as a research associate with NTT Communication Science Laboratories from 2012 to 2013, as a research scientist with Yahoo Labs from 2013 to 2015, and as an assistant professor with Kyoto University from 2015 to 2017.
2019 Ph.D. in Physics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
2014 B.S. in Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Assistant Professor (Transitional) of the Collective Dynamics and Quantum Transport Unit. Shu’s research reveals dynamical and transport phenomena in various forms of quantum matter, from quantum and topological materials to synthetic quantum matter and hybrid quantum platforms, to explore emergent many-body dynamics and propose their spintronic, electronic, and quantum-information functionalities. Her research combines theoretical approaches in the fields of quantum many-body physics, mesoscopic physics, and quantum optics.
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