Members

Professor Ryuta Kawashima, MD

Position	Name	Department	Profile
Associate Professor	Hikaru Takeuchi	Advanced Brain Science
Assistant Professor	Teruo Hashimoto	Advanced Brain Science
Assistant Professor	Rie Ryoke	Advanced Brain Science
Assistant Professor	Yutaka Matsuzaki	Advanced Brain Science
Assistant Professor (Additional)	Toshimi Ogawa	Advanced Brain Science	Smart-Aging Research Organization
Assistant Professor	Kohei Sakaki	Advanced Brain Science
Guest Assistant Professor	Shinichiro Kanoh	Advanced Brain Science	Shibaura Institute of Technology
Guest Assistant Professor	Naoki Miura	Advanced Brain Science	Tohoku Institute of technology
Guest Assistant Professor	Yoshiyuki Tachibana	Advanced Brain Science	National Center for Child Health and Development
Guest Research Instructor	Keisuke Wakusawa	Advanced Brain Science	Miyagi Children’s Hospital
Guest Research Instructor	Akira Sumiyoshi	Advanced Brain Science	National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology
Research Associate	Andreas Ogitsu	Advanced Brain Science

Support Staff

Position	Name	Department
Postgraduate Student	Takuma Sasaki
Postgraduate Student	Yuko Mori
Postgraduate Student	Hiroki Tamon
Postgraduate Student*	Noriki Yamaya	*DIARE doctoral course student
Postgraduate Student*	Masayuki Tsujimoto	*Student of the “Advanced Graduate Program for Future Medicine and Health Care” Studying in the University of Western Australia （April 1, 2023 – September 30, 2023）
Postgraduate Student	Ayaka Nishii
Secretary	Fukiko Hashimoto	Advanced Brain Science
Secretary	Akemi Kobayashi	Advanced Brain Science
Secretary	Seiko Suzuki	Advanced Brain Science
Technical Staff	Hiroi Nonaka	Advanced Brain Science
Assistant Technical Staff	Chie Kajiwara	Advanced Brain Science

Graduates

Position	Date of Completion	Name	Current Affiliation
Specially Appointed Professor	3.2023	Hiroyuki Murata	Smart-Aging Research Center
Research Fellow	3.2023	Keiko Okimoto	KUMON INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION CO., LTD.
Secretary	3.2023	Yuka Konno
Postgraduate Student	3.2023	Ryo Nakamura	Railway Technical Research Institute
Postgraduate Student	3.2023	Rin Endo	ariTV Incorporate
Postgraduate Student	3.2023	Minami Ishigouoka
Postgraduate Student	3.2023	Masaya Ota	Hitachi Solutions West Japan, Ltd.

Position	Date of Completion	Name	Current Affiliation
Assistant Professor	9.2022	Dalila Burin	The University of Tokyo
Postgraduate Student	9.2022	Denilson Brilliant	Smart-Aging Research Center
Postgraduate Student	3.2022	Risako Kojima
Technical Assistant	3.2022	Masatoshi Hirobe

Position	Date of Completion	Name	Current Affiliation
Postgraduate Student	9.2021	Natasha Yuriko dos Santos Kawata	University of Fukui
Assistant Professor	3.2021	Kazumasu Sasaki	Akita Prefectural Hospital Organization Akita Cerebrospinal and Cardiovascular Center
Assistant Professor	3.2021	Carlos Makoto Miyauchi	Tohoku University Hospital
Assistant Professor	3.2021	Toshiki Saito
Postgraduate Student	3.2021	Akiko Kobayashi	Kochi University of Technology
Postgraduate Student	3.2021	Yingxu Liu	Dept. Human Brain Science
Technical Assistant	2.2021	Kento Takahashi

Position	Date of Completion	Name	Current Affiliation
Postgraduate Student	12.2020	Choi Jeyoon	Dept. Human Brain Science
Special Research Student	10.2020	Hardiani Alexandra
Postgraduate Student	09.2020	Riska Shabrina
Postgraduate Student	03.2020	Nozomi Imajo	National Public Official
Postgraduate Student	03.2020	Hina Iwama	DENTSU EAST JAPAN INC.

Position	Date of Completion	Name	Current Affiliation
Technical Assistant	11.2019	Rie Ogitsu	Smart-Aging Research Organization
Postgraduate Student	09.2019	Yukako Sasaki
Assistant Professor	06.2019	Shigeyuki Ikeda	RIKEN
Postgraduate Student	03.2019	Ryan Browne	Smart-Aging Research Center
Special Research Student	03.2019	Saeid Sadeghi	Shahid Beheshti University
Research Assistant	03.2019	Haruka Nouchi	Cognitive Health Science

Position	Date of Completion	Name	Current Affiliation
Associate Professor (Additional)	11.2018	Rui Nouchi	Cognitive Health Science
Special Research Student	09.2018	Tomomi Nagase	The University of Tokyo
Special Research Student	09.2018	Robin Maximilian Himmelmeier	University of Göttingen
Guest Lecturer	03.2018	Satoru Yokoyama	Chiba Institute of Science
Guest Lecturer	03.2018	Michiko Asano
Research Assistant	03.2018	Tomo Funaki

Position	Date of Completion	Name	Current Affiliation
Assistant Professor	03.2017	Takayuki Nozawa	Faculty of Engineering, University of Toyama
Postgraduate Student	03.2017	Lee Hsun Cheng
Assistant Professor	01.2017	Susumu Yokota	Faculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University

Position	Date of Completion	Name	Current Affiliation
Assistant Professor	09.2016	Akira Sumiyoshi	National Institute of Health
JSPS Research Fellow	09.2016	Hyeonjeong Jeong	Functional Brain Imaging
Teaching Assistant	06.2016	Sachi Kikuchi
Research Fellow	06.2016	Hiroki Takenaka	Lion Corporation
Fulbright Fellow	06.2016	Kay Kulason
Professor (Additional)	03.2016	Yasuyuki Taki	Department of Nuclear Medicine & Radiology
Associate Professor	03.2016	Motoaki Sugiura	Human Brain Science & Disaster-Related Cognitive Science
Assistant Professor	03.2016	Akitake Kanno	Human Brain Science
Guest Assistant Professor	03.2016	Seishu Nakagawa	Human Brain Science
JSPS Research Fellow	03.2016	Kai Wang	NEC Central Research Laboratories
Postdoctoral Fellow	03.2016	Sugiko Hanawa	Human Brain Science
Research Fellow	03.2016	Thyreau Benjamin	Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization
Postdoctoral Fellow	03.2016	Kentaro Oba	TOMMO
JSPS Research Fellow	03.2016	Kai Wang	NEC Central Research Laboratories
Research Assistant	03.2016	Sato Mine	Faculty of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University
Research Assistant	03.2016	Yuki Yamada
Postgraduate Student	03.2016	Chang Seokkyung	Human Brain Science
Postgraduate Student	03.2016	Mari Imai
Postgraduate Student	03.2016	Hiroshi Ishinabe	Human Brain Science
Postgraduate Student	03.2016	Tetsuya Kageyama	Human Brain Science
Postgraduate Student	03.2016	Kelssy Hitomi dos Santos Kawata	Human Brain Science
Postgraduate Student	03.2016	Tatsuro Kikuchi	Human Brain Science
Postgraduate Student	03.2016	Masako Tanaka	Human Brain Science
Postgraduate Student	03.2016	Kosuke Motoki	Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo
Postgraduate Student	03.2016	Yuki Yamamoto	Rakuten Group, Inc.
Postgraduate Student	03.2016	Kanan Hirano	Human Brain Science
Postgraduate Student	03.2016	Shohei Yamazaki	Human Brain Science
Research Assistant	02.2016	Kosei Hasegawa	Omagari Kousei Medical Center

Position	Date of Completion	Name	Current Affiliation
Associate Professor (Additional)	09.2015	Atsushi Sekiguchi	National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry
JSPS Summer Program	08.2015	Robert Westphal	King’s College London
Assistant Professor	07.2015	Tsuyoshi Araki	ADVANTAGE Risk Management Co., Ltd
Postdoctoral Fellow	06.2015	Keyvan Kashkouli Nejad	CyberAgent, Inc.
Visiting Professor	03.2015	Harry Moody
Postdoctoral Fellow	03.2015	Ryoichi Yokoyama	Keio University
Postgraduate Student	03.2015	Mizue Suzuki	Kyoto University
Postgraduate Student	03.2015	Kunio IIZUKA	Psychiatry of Tohoku University
Postgraduate Student	03.2015	Atsuko Miyazaki	RIKEN
Research Fellow	03.2015	Ming-Che Hsieh	National Chengchi University

Position	Date of Completion	Name	Current Affiliation
Postdoctoral Fellow	12.2014	Daniele Magistro
Postgraduate Student	09.2014	Chiho Sato	Surgical Oncology of Tohoku University
Research Student	09.2014	Zhang Mingyang
JSPS Summer Program	08.2014	Christina Wayman	King's College London
Postdoctoral Fellow	03.2014	Kei Takahashi	Graduate School of International Cultural Studies
Postdoctoral Fellow	03.2014	Kohei Asano	Fukushima Medical University
Postgraduate Student	03.2014	Masumi Ishihara	National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology
Postgraduate Student	03.2014	Atsushi Sakuma	Psychiatry of Tohoku University
Assistant Professor	01.2014	Hiroshi Hashizume	Kyoto University
Secretary	01.2014	Tomoko Nonaka	TOMMO

Position	Date of Completion	Name	Current Affiliation
Postdoctoral Fellow	12.2013	Yoritaka Akimoto	RIKEN
Postgraduate Student	09.2013	Yosuke Hashimoto
Postgraduate Student	09.2013	Keiko Tatsumi
JSPS Summer Program	08.2013	Ben A. Duffy	University College London
Teaching Assistant	06.2013	Fancy Tanya
Guest Assistant Professor	03.2013	Takashi Tsukiura	Kyoto University
Postgraduate Student	03.2013	Carlos Makoto Miyauchi
Postgraduate Student	03.2013	Mijin Lee

Position	Date of Completion	Name	Current Affiliation
Teaching Assistant	12.2012	Sarah Michael
Postgraduate Student	10.2012	Takao Sekizawa
Postdoctoral Fellow	07.2012	Norbert Maïonchi-Pino	Université Clermont-Ferrand 2 - Blaise Pascal
Postdoctoral Fellow	04.2012	Takakuni Goto	Nikon Co.
Associate Professor	03.2012	Jorge Javier Riera Diaz	Florida International University
	03.2012	Tohru Ozaki
Guest Associate Professor	03.2012	Katsumi Watanabe	The University of Tokyo
Postdoctoral Fellow	03.2012	Takeshi Ogawa	Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute International (ATR)
Postdoctoral Fellow	03.2012	Yasuhiro Seya	Ritsumeikan University
Postgraduate Student	03.2012	Rieko Hatanaka	Aomori Prefectural Government
Postgraduate Student	03.2012	Toshimune Kambara	Keio University
Research Assistant	03.2012	Yuko Sassa
Research Assistant	02.2012	Mizuki Ihara	The MathWorks, Inc.

Position	Date of Completion	Name	Current Affiliation
Postdoctoral Fellow	05.2011	Moataz　Mekawy
Assistant Professor	03.2011	Yuko Akitsuki	JR SENDAI HOSPITAL
Postdoctoral Fellow	03.2011	Yayoi Shigemune	Kyoto University
Postdoctoral Fellow	03.2011	Yukihito Yomogida	Tamagawa University
Postdoctoral Fellow	03.2011	Isao Goto	Kyushu University
Postdoctoral Fellow	03.2011	Yasuo Takafuji
PostgraduateFellow	03.2011	Kaori Hoshi
Postdoctoral Fellow	01.2011	Hadi Hosseini	Stanford University

Position	Date of Completion	Name	Current Affiliation
Postdoctoral Fellow	10.2010	Enjieu Kadji Herve Germain	African Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Postdoctoral Fellow	08.2010	Sakura Nakauchi	University of California
Postdoctoral Fellow	06.2010	Yoko Mano	Northwestern University
Postgraduate Student	03.2010	Masahiro Mori	University of California

Position	Date of Completion	Name	Current Affiliation
Postgraduate Student	11.2009	Takako Akiha	Graduate School of International Culture Studies, Tohoku University
Secretary	10.2009	Risa Haga
Postgraduate Student	09.2009	Marko Crivaro	Helsinki University of Technology
Postdoctoral Fellow	08.2009	Tina Rasmussen
Postgraduate Student	03.2009	Ai Fukushima	Kumon Co.
Postdoctoral Fellow	03.2009	Eduardo Aubert	Cuban　Neuroscience　Center

Position	Date of Completion	Name	Current Affiliation
Postdoctoral Fellow	03.2008	Naho Ikuta-Inoue

Position	Date of Completion	Name	Current Affiliation
Postgraduate Student	03.2007	Shinya Uchida	Department of Animal Models for Human Disease, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry

Position	Date of Completion	Name	Current Affiliation
Postgraduate Student	09.2006	Hideyuki Okamoto	Applied Electromagnetic Research Institute
Postgraduate Student	03.2006	Xiaohong Wan	Laboratory for Cognitive Brain Mapping, Cognitive Brain Science Group, RIKEN Brain Science Institute

Position	Date of Completion	Name	Current Affiliation
Postdoctoral Fellow	05.2008	Kazuki Iwata	Priest of Esoteric Buddhism

Position	Date of Completion	Name	Current Affiliation
Postdoctoral Fellow	03.2004	Jobu Watanabe	Teikyo Heisei University
Postdoctoral Fellow	03.2004	Kayo Saigo	Fukushima Medical University Department of Neuropsychiatry
Postdoctoral Fellow	03.2004	Keiichi Yamashita