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Birth date: 7 April, 1952
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
Marriage status: Married
Nationality: Japan
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March 1975, the Bachelor of Science, Physics, at Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo.
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March 1980, the Doctor of Science, at Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, supervised by Prof. Dr. Akiyoshi Wada. The title of the doctor thesis is 'Dielectric studies of the biological polyelectrolytes by Fourier-synthesized-pseudorandom-noise-dielectric spectrometer'.
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April 1980-July 1987, Research Associate, at Department of Applied Physics (with Prof. Dr. Koji Okano), Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo.
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July 1985 - December 1985, Visiting Researcher, at the Astbury Department of Biophysics, Leeds University, Leeds, U.K., studying molecular graphics in the laboratory of Prof. Dr. A. C. T. North by a SERC grant of U.K.
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August 1987 - March 1996, Director of Second Department, Protein Engineering Research Institute, Osaka, studying molecular modelling, design and analysis.
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November 1994, Guest Professor, Institut fur Organ. Chemie und Biochemie (Prof. Dr. Georg E. Schulz), Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg.
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April 1995 - March 1999, Guest Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Osaka University.
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April 1995 - March 1999, Guest Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University.
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April 1996 - March 1999, Research Director, Department of Bioinformatics, Biomolecular Engineering Research Institute, Osaka.
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April 1999 -, Professor, Laboratory of Protein Informatics, Research Center for Structural Biology, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University,
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Biophysical studies about protein architecture, electrostatic properties and enzymatic functions / Protein modelling / Protein design / Computational chemistry
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Biophysics / Protein Science / Structural Bioinformatics
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Associate Editor of Protein Engineering
The Biophysical Society of Japan
International Society of Molecular Graphics
The Molecular Biology Society of Japan
The Physical Society of Japan
Protein Science Society of Japan
The Society of Polymer Science, Japan
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