Research Units

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Faculty Research Units

Photo of David Armitage

Integrative Community Ecology Unit
Assistant Professor
David Armitage
david.armitage at oist.jp

Ugur Abdulla

Analysis and Partial Differential Equations Unit
Transitional Professor
Ugur Abdulla
ugur.abdulla at oist.jp

Mahesh Bandi

Nonlinear and Non-equilibrium Physics Unit
Associate Professor
Mahesh Bandi
bandi at oist.jp

Tom Bourguignon

Evolutionary Genomics Unit
Assistant Professor
Tom Bourguignon
thomas.bourguignon at oist.jp

Thomas Busch

Quantum Systems Unit
Professor
Thomas Busch
thomas.busch at oist.jp

Pinaki Chakraborty

Fluid Mechanics Unit
Professor
Pinaki Chakraborty
pinaki at oist.jp

Carlos Cid

Applied Cryptography Unit
Professor (Adjunct)
Carlos Cid
carlos.cid at oist.jp

Keshav Dani

Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit
Associate Professor
Keshav Dani
kmdani at oist.jp

Erik De Schutter

Computational Neuroscience Unit
Professor
Erik De Schutter
erik at oist.jp

Ulf Dieckmann

Complexity Science and Evolution Unit
Professor
Ulf Dieckmann
ulf.dieckmann at oist.jp

Kenji Doya

Neural Computation Unit
Professor
Kenji Doya
doya at oist.jp

Evan P. Economo

Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit
Professor
Evan P. Economo
economo at oist.jp

Artur Ekert

Quantum Information Security Unit
Professor (Adjunct)
Artur Ekert
artur.ekert at oist.jp

David Elkouss

Networked Quantum Devices Unit
Transitional Associate Professor
David Elkouss

Applied Topology Unit
Professor (Adjunct)
Dmitry Feichtner-Kozlov
dmitry.feichtner at oist.jp

Yejun Feng

Electronic and Quantum Magnetism Unit
Associate Professor
Yejun Feng
yejun at oist.jp

Eliot Fried

Mechanics and Materials Unit
Professor
Eliot Fried
eliot.fried at oist.jp

Tom Froese

Embodied Cognitive Science Unit
Assistant Professor
Tom Froese
tom.froese at oist.jp

Tomoki Fukai

Neural Coding and Brain Computing Unit
Professor
Tomoki Fukai
tomoki.fukai at oist.jp

Izumi Fukunaga

Sensory and Behavioural Neuroscience Unit
Assistant Professor
Izumi Fukunaga
izumi.fukunaga at oist.jp

Gustavo Gioia

Continuum Physics Unit
Professor
Gustavo Gioia
ggioia at oist.jp

Yukiko Goda

Synapse Biology Unit
Transitional Professor
Yukiko Goda
yukiko.goda at oist.jp

Igor Goryanin

Biological Systems Unit
Professor (Adjunct)
Igor Goryanin
goryanin at oist.jp

Shinobu Hikami

Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Unit
Professor
Shinobu Hikami
hikami at oist.jp

Philipp Höhn

Qubits and Spacetime Unit
Assistant Professor
Philipp Höhn
philipp.hoehn at oist.jp

Filip Husnik

Evolution, Cell Biology, and Symbiosis Unit
Assistant Professor
Filip Husnik
filip.husnik at oist.jp

Hiroki Ishikawa

Immune Signal Unit
Associate Professor
Hiroki Ishikawa
hiroki.ishikawa at oist.jp

Ryota Kabe

Organic Optoelectronics Unit
Assistant Professor
Ryota Kabe
ryota.kabe at oist.jp

Julia Khusnutdinova

Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis Unit
Associate Professor
Julia Khusnutdinova
juliak at oist.jp

Hiroaki Kitano

Integrated Open Systems Unit
Professor (Adjunct)
Hiroaki Kitano
kitano at oist.jp

Cell Division Dynamics Unit
Assistant Professor
Tomomi Kiyomitsu
tomomi.kiyomitsu at oist.jp
Evolutionary and Synthetic Biology Unit
Professor
Fyodor Kondrashov
fyodor.kondrashov at oist.jp

Keiko Kono

Membranology Unit
Assistant Professor
Keiko Kono
keiko.kono at oist.jp

Denis Konstantinov

Quantum Dynamics Unit
Professor
Denis Konstantinov
denis at oist.jp

Bernd Kuhn

Optical Neuroimaging Unit
Professor
Bernd Kuhn
bkuhn at oist.jp

Akihiro Kusumi

Membrane Cooperativity Unit
Professor
Akihiro Kusumi
akihiro.kusumi at oist.jp

Vincent Laudet

Marine Eco-Evo-Devo Unit
Professor
Vincent Laudet
vincent.laudet at oist.jp

Paola Laurino

Protein Engineering and Evolution Unit
Assistant Professor
Paola Laurino
paola.laurino at oist.jp

Qing Liu

Geometric Partial Differential Equations Unit
Associate Professor
Qing Liu

Christine Luscombe

pi-Conjugated Polymers Unit
Professor
Christine Luscombe
christine.luscombe at oist.jp

Nicholas M. Luscombe

Genomics and Regulatory Systems Unit
Professor 
Nicholas M. Luscombe
luscombe at oist.jp

Ichiro Maruyama

Information Processing Biology Unit
Professor
Ichiro Maruyama
ichi at oist.jp

Ichiro Masai

Developmental Neurobiology Unit
Professor
Ichiro Masai
masai at oist.jp

Franz Meitinger

Cell Proliferation and Gene Editing Unit
Transitional Assistant Professor
Franz Meitinger
franz.meitinger at oist.jp

Jonathan Miller

Physics and Biology Unit
Professor
Jonathan Miller
jnthnmllr at oist.jp

Satoshi Mitarai

Marine Biophysics Unit
Associate Professor
Satoshi Mitarai
satoshi at oist.jp

Gene Myers

Algorithms for Eco And Evo Genomics Unit
Professor (Adjunct)
Gene Myers
gene.myers at oist.jp

Akimitsu Narita

Organic and Carbon Nanomaterials Unit
Assistant Professor
Akimitsu Narita
akimitsu.narita at oist.jp

Yasha Neiman

Quantum Gravity Unit
Assistant Professor
Yasha Neiman
yaakov.neiman at oist.jp

Kae Nemoto

Quantum Information Science and Technology Unit
Professor
Kae Nemoto
kae.nemoto at oist.jp

Sile Nic Chormaic

Light-Matter Interactions for Quantum Technologies Unit
Professor
Síle Nic Chormaic
sile.nicchormaic at oist.jp

Yoshinori Okada

Quantum Materials Science Unit
Assistant Professor
Yoshinori Okada
yoshinori.okada at oist.jp

Svante Pääbo

Human Evolutionary Genomics Unit
Professor (Adjunct)
Svante Pääbo
svante.paabo at oist.jp

Simone Pigolotti

Biological Complexity Unit
Associate Professor
Simone Pigolotti
simone.pigolotti at oist.jp

Yabing Qi

Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit
Professor
Yabing Qi
yabing.qi at oist.jp

Timothy Ravasi

Marine Climate Change Unit
Professor
Timothy Ravasi
timothy.ravasi at oist.jp

Computational Neuroethology Unit
Assistant Professor
Sam Reiter
samuel.reiter at oist.jp

Daniel Rokhsar

Molecular Genetics Unit
Professor (Visiting, Adjunct)
Daniel Rokhsar
daniel.rokhsar at oist.jp

Photo of Marco Edoardo Rosti

Complex Fluids and Flows Unit
Assistant Professor
Marco Edoardo Rosti
marco.rosti at oist.jp

Lauren Sallan

Marine Macroevolution Unit
Transitional Assistant Professor
Lauren Sallan
lauren.sallan at oist.jp

Noriyuki Satoh

Marine Genomics Unit
Professor
Noriyuki Satoh
norisky at oist.jp

Hidetoshi Saze

Plant Epigenetics Unit
Associate Professor
Hidetoshi Saze
hidetoshi.saze at oist.jp

Nic Shannon

Theory of Quantum Matter Unit
Professor
Nic Shannon
nic.shannon at oist.jp

Amy Shen

Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit
Professor
Amy Shen
amy.shen at oist.jp

Tsumoru Shintake

Quantum Wave Microscopy Unit
Professor
Tsumoru Shintake
ShintakeLab at oist.jp

Ulf Skoglund

Structural Cellular Biology Unit
Professor
Dean of Graduate School
Ulf Skoglund
ulf.skoglund at oist.jp

Photo of Liron Speyer

Representation Theory and Algebraic Combinatorics Unit
Assistant Professor
Liron Speyer
liron.speyer at oist.jp

Greg Stephens

Biological Physics Theory Unit
Associate Professor (Adjunct)
Greg Stephens
greg.stephens at oist.jp

Experimental Quantum Information Physics
Assistant Professor
Hiroki Takahashi
hiroki.takahashi at oist.jp

Tomoyuki Takahashi

Cellular and Molecular Synaptic Function Unit
Professor
Tomoyuki Takahashi
ttakahas at oist.jp

Fujie Tanaka

Chemistry and Chemical Bioengineering Unit
Professor
Fujie Tanaka
ftanaka at oist.jp

Kazumasa Tanaka

Memory Research Unit
Assistant Professor
Kazumasa Tanaka
kazumasa.tanaka at oist.jp

Jun Tani

Cognitive Neurorobotics Research Unit
Professor
Jun Tani
jun.tani at oist.jp

Marco Terenzio

Molecular Neuroscience Unit
Assistant Professor
Marco Terenzio
marco.terenzio at oist.jp

Rieko Toriumi

Gravity, Quantum Geometry and Field Theory Unit (Reiko Toriumi)
Assistant Professor
Reiko Toriumi
reiko.toriumi at oist.jp

Shocks, Solitons and Turbulence Unit
Associate Professor
Emile Touber
emile.touber at oist.jp

Gail Tripp

Human Developmental Neurobiology Unit
Professor
Gail Tripp
tripp at oist.jp

Jason Twamley

Quantum Machines Unit
Professor
Jason Twamley
jason.twamley1 at oist.jp

Marylka Yoe Uusisaari

Neuronal Rhythms in Movement Unit
Assistant Professor
Marylka Yoe Uusisaari
uusisaari at oist.jp

Hiroshi Watanabe

Evolutionary Neurobiology Unit
Assistant Professor
Hiroshi Watanabe
hiroshi.watanabe at oist.jp

Jeff Wickens

Neurobiology Research Unit
Professor
Jeff Wickens
wickens at oist.jp

Matthias Wolf

Molecular Cryo-Electron Microscopy Unit
Professor
Matthias Wolf
matthias.wolf at oist.jp

Tadashi Yamamoto

Cell Signal Unit
Professor
Tadashi Yamamoto
tadashi.yamamoto at oist.jp

Mitsuhiro Yanagida

G0 Cell Unit
Professor
Mitsuhiro Yanagida
yanagida at oist.jp

Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama

Neuronal Mechanism for Critical Period Unit
Associate Professor
Yoko Yazaki-Sugiyama
yazaki-sugiyama at oist.jp

Yohei Yokobayashi

Nucleic Acid Chemistry and Engineering Unit
Professor
Yohei Yokobayashi
yohei.yokobayashi at oist.jp

Yutaka Yoshida

Neural Circuit Unit
Transitional Professor
Yutaka Yoshida
yutaka.yoshida at oist.jp

Xiaodan Zhou

Analysis on Metric Spaces Unit
Assistant Professor
Xiaodan Zhou
xiaodan.zhou at oist.jp

External Faculty

Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan

Approximate Bayesian Inference Unit
External Professor
Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan

As of April 1, 2022

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