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• Research

  My main research areas include cell biomechanics such as cell remodeling in response to mechanical stimuli, biomechanics of soft tissues in health and disease, bio-MEMS such as development of engineered matrix to measure cell traction forces and bioassay systems towards a high throughput single cell analysis.

• Experience

  2010~ Present Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University
  
  2010 Guest Professor, Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University (-March 2011)
  
  2009 Present Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University
  
  2008 Academic Fellow, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  
  2004-2005 Academic Fellow, Queen Mary University of London
  
  2001-2008 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University
  
  2000 Ph.D., Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University
  
  1997-2002 Research Associate, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University
  
  1994-1997 Research Associate, Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku University
  
  1994 M.S., Graduate School of Engineering, Tsukuba Universityv
  
  1991 B.S., School of Mechanical Engineering, Tsukuba University

• Honor

  2009 JSME Medal for Outstanding Paper in 2007, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
  
  2008 JSME Medal for Outstanding Paper in 2007, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
  
  2004 Young Investigators Award of Japan Society of Medical Electronics and Biological Engineering
  
  2004 The Seguchi Prize (12th) in Bioengineering in 2003, Division of Biomedical Engineering of Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
  
  2002 Outstanding Paper Award at International Congress on Biological and Medical Engineering (Singapore, Dec 4-7, 2002)
  
  2002 Finalist for a Calgary Award at the IV World Congress of Biomechanics (Calgary, Canada, August 4-9, 2002)
  
  2002 Young Investigators Award of Japan Society of Medical Electronics and Biological Engineering
  
  2001 Award for Best Poster at 2001 Summer Bioengineering Conference (Snowbord, Utaf, USA, June 27-July 1, 2001)
  
  2000 Outstanding paper award at the 10th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering (Singapore, 6-9 Dec, 2000)
  
  2000 JSME Medal for Outstanding Paper in 1999, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers