Profile

Research Interests

• Urban ecology, Animal behavior, Human-wildlife interactions

Scientific Biography

• 2019: B.S. (life science), Department of Applied Biosciences, Faculty of Life Sciences Toyo University, Japan (supervisor: Motohiro Ito, Laboratory of Field Animal Science)

• 2022-2024: Research Fellow of the Japan Society of Promotion for Sciences (DC2), Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems, School of Advanced Sciences, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI 

• 2024: Ph. D. (science), Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems, School of Advanced Sciences, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, Japan (supervisor: Nobuyuki Kutsukake), Dissertation Title: Humans and Wildlife in the Anthropocene: The Multidimensional Approach to Urban Ecology in Eurasian Red Squirrel

• 2024-: Senior researcher, Research Organization of Open Innovation and Collaboration, Ritsumeikan University

• 2025-2028: Post-doctoral Research Fellow of the Japan Society of Promotion for Sciences (PD), Research Organization of Open Innovation and Collaboration, Ritsumeikan University (advisor: Ryo Sakurai)

Research Grants

• 2022-2024 Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (DC2)  (¥1,700,000)

• 2024-2026 Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up (¥2,860,000)

• 2025-2028 Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (PD) 

Research experiences (used methods and approaches)

• Fieldwork on Palla’s squirrels in Kanagawa, Japan (2017, direct observation, capturing, stable isotope analysis, biologging)

• Fieldwork on citizen’s perception of supplemental feeding in Hokkaido, Japan (2022, face-to-face interview, grounded theory approach)

• Fieldwork on Eurasian red squirrels in Hokkaido, Japan (2017-2023, capturing, behavioral observation, stable isotope analysis, behavioral experiments, genetic analysis)

• Fieldwork on Northern Ryukyu fruit bats and volunteer for their conservation in Tokara, Kagoshima, Japan (2023-, direct observation, face-to-face interview, assisted NGO)

• Fieldwork on the ecosystem of a tea plantation in Kyoto, Japan, and campus wildlife in Osaka, Japan (2024-, camera traps)

Awards and Honors

• 2025, Young Scientist Award from the Human and Wildlife Society. “Multidimensional research aimed at the coexistence between humans and wildlife in cities”.

• 2024, Dean’s Award from The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI. “Humans and Wildlife in the Anthropocene: The Multidimensional Approach to Urban Ecology in Eurasian Red Squirrel”.

Language

• Japanese, English

Teaching

• 2024, Sep-Jan, Foundation Course to Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University.