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Kobe University
After a Master obtained at Kyoto University in 1989, he got the position of Assistant professor at Fukuyama University in 1990 and obtained a PhD at Kyoto University in 1993. After a Post-Doc experience at INRA Jouy-en-Josas, France, from 1996 to 97, he moved to Kobe University in 2004 as Associate professor, and was promoted to be Professor of Applied Microbiology in 2009.
He has specialized in structural and functional genomics of bacteria including Bacillus subtilis and its relatives since the very beginning of his career to date. He was once awarded the prize for "Encouragement of Young Scientists" (2002) and twice the prize for "Excellent papers" from the Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry (2008 and 2014). He received the “Fermentation and metabolism research award” (2006) from Japan Bioindustry Association (JBA) and the prize from NAGASE Science Technology Foundation (2009). Currently, in addition to his full-professor position, he serves as the executive director in Kobe University Brussels European Centre (2014 to date).
He has specialized in structural and functional genomics of bacteria including Bacillus subtilis and its relatives since the very beginning of his career to date. He was once awarded the prize for "Encouragement of Young Scientists" (2002) and twice the prize for "Excellent papers" from the Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry (2008 and 2014). He received the “Fermentation and metabolism research award” (2006) from Japan Bioindustry Association (JBA) and the prize from NAGASE Science Technology Foundation (2009). Currently, in addition to his full-professor position, he serves as the executive director in Kobe University Brussels European Centre (2014 to date).