Department | Group | Position | Name | Research Field |
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Department of Zoology | Director & Director of the Showa Memorial Institute |
Toshihiko Fujita | Echinoderm (asterid) | |
Division of Vertebrates | Head of the Division & Curator of the Team of Urban Ecology Research |
Shoji Hamao | Birds, behavioral ecology | |
Senior Curator | Gento Shinohara | Fishes | ||
Senior Curator | Isao Nishiumi | Birds | ||
Senior Curator | Shin-ichiro Kawada | Mammals | ||
Senior Curator | Yuko Tajima | Marine Mammalogy,Veterinary Pathology,Vertebrate Morphology | ||
Senior Curator | Masanori Nakae | Fishes | ||
Curator | Natsuhiko Yoshikawa | Amphibians, Reptiles | ||
Division of Marine Invertebrates | Head of the Division | Hiroshi Saito | Mollusks (chitons etc.) | |
Senior Curator & curator of the Showa Memorial Institute Curator |
Hiroshi Namikawa | Cnidaria, Tunicata |
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Senior Curator & curator of the Showa Memorial Institute Curator & Collection Manager |
Kazunori Hasegawa | Mollusks (gastropods) | ||
Senior Curator | Hironori Komatsu | Crustacea (crabs) | ||
Senior Curator & Curator of the Center for Molecular Biodiversity Research |
Goro Tanifuji | Comparative genomics, Endosymbiosis, Parasitism, Protist | ||
Division of Terrestrial Invertebrates | Head of the Division & Curator of the Team of Urban Ecology Research & Collection Manager |
Shuhei Nomura | Coleoptera | |
Senior Curator & Deputy Collection Director & Deputy Head of the Center for Molecular Biodiversity Research |
Utsugi Jinbo | Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), biodiversity informatics | ||
Senior Curator | Takuya Kiyoshi | Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) | ||
Senior Curator | Tatsuya Ide | Hymenoptera, gall-inducing insects | ||
Senior Curator | Kenichi Okumura | Arachnida (spiders) | ||
Department | Group | Position | Name | Research Field |
Department of Botany | Director & Director of Tsukuba Botanical Garden |
Tsuyoshi Hosoya | Fungi - Ascomycota (cup fungi & microfungi) | |
Division of Land Plants | Head of Division of Land Plants | Nobuyuki Tanaka | Spermatophyta (seed plants) | |
Senior Curator & Collection Manager |
Atsushi Ebihara | Pteridophyta (ferns & fern allies) | ||
Curator | Yuya Inoue | Bryophytes | ||
Curator | Ai Nagahama | Spermatophyta (seed plants) | ||
Division of Fungi and Algae | Head of the Division & Curator of the Team of Urban Ecology Research |
Yoshihito Ohmura | Fungi - lichens | |
Senior Curator | Taiju Kitayama | Algae - macroalgae | ||
Senior Curator | Akihiro Tuji | Algae - microalgae | ||
Senior Curator & Curator of the Center for Molecular Biodiversity Research |
Kentaro Hosaka | Fungi - Basidiomycota (mushrooms & false truffles) | ||
Division of Plant Diversity and Conservation | Head of the Division & Curator of theTsukuba Botanical Garden & Curator of the Team of Urban Ecology Research |
Tomohisa Yukawa | Spermatophyta (seed plants) | |
Senior Curator & Curator of theTsukuba Botanical Garden |
Goro Kokubugata | Spermatophyta (seed plants) | ||
Senior Curator & Curator of theTsukuba Botanical Garden |
Norio Tanaka | Spermatophyta (seed plants) | ||
Senior Curator & Curator of theTsukuba Botanical Garden & Curator of the Center for Molecular Biodiversity Research |
Chie Tsutsumi | Tracheophyta (vascular plants) | ||
Senior Curator & Curator of theTsukuba Botanical Garden |
Yudai Okuyama | Flowering plants (Pollination biology, Evolutionary genetics) |
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Senior Curator & Curator of theTsukuba Botanical Garden & Collection Manager |
Yoshinori Murai | Plant Science, Environmental Adaptation, Chemical Ecology | ||
Senior Curator & Curator of theTsukuba Botanical Garden |
Takayuki Mizuno | Flower Coloration, Horticultural Science, Natural Product | ||
Department | Group | Position | Name | Research Field |
Department of Geology and Paleontology | Director | Ritsuro Miyawaki | Rare earth minerals | |
Division of Mineral Sciences | Head of the Division | Takashi Sano | Volcanology | |
Senior Curator | Yukiyasu Tsutsumi | Geochronology | ||
Senior Curator | Koichi Momma | Mineralogy | ||
Senior Curator | Kenichiro Tani | Petrology, Geochronology, Volcanology | ||
Division of Biotic Evolution | Head of the Division | Naoki Kohno | Fossils of marine mammals | |
Senior Curator | Atsushi Yabe | Paleobotany | ||
Senior Curator & Collection Manager |
Takanobu Tsuihiji | Dinosaurs and other Mesozinc reptiles including avialans | ||
Senior Curator | Yuri Kimura | Fossil terrestrial mammals | ||
Division of Paleoenvironment and Paleoecology | Head of the Division | Yasunari Shigeta | Fossil cephalopods (ammonoids, nautiloids), Mesozoic stratigraphy | |
Senior Curator | Megumi Saito-Kato | Freshwater microfossils | ||
Senior Curator | Yoshimi Kubota | Paleoclimatology, Paleoceanography | ||
Senior Curator | Takuma Haga | Evolutionary paleontology, Historical phylogeny, Taxonomy of mollusks, Malacology | ||
Department | Group | Position | Name | Research Field |
Department of Anthropology | Director & Senior Director in Research & Head of the Collection Director & Head of the Center for Molecular Biodiversity Research |
Makoto Manabe | Mesozoic reptiles and birds including dinosaurs | |
Division of Human Evolution | Head of the Division & Collection Manager |
Kazuhiro Sakaue | Physical Anthropology, Forensic anthropology (identification of the bones found in criminal cases) |
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Senior Curator | Masaki Fujita | Physical Anthropology, Zooarchaeology | ||
Senior Curator & Curator of the Center for Molecular Biodiversity Research |
Hideaki Kanzawa | Biological anthropology (Molecular anthropology) | ||
Curator | Wataru Morita | Morphological variation of tooth (Pleistocene hominin evolution, Tooth evo-devo) | ||
Curator | Mai Takigami | Isotopic Ecology, Radiocarbon dating, Andean Archaeology, Bioarchaeology | ||
Department | Group | Position | Name | Research Field |
Department of Science and Engineering | Director | Shigekazu Yoneda | Space chemistry (meteorite) | |
Division of History of Science and Technology |
Head of the Division & Curator of the Center of the History of Japanese Industrial Technology & Collection Manager |
Takahiko Kutsuna | Material science, Conservation science | |
Senior Curator & Curator of the Center of the History of Japanese Industrial Technology |
Toshio Kubota | History of civil engineering | ||
Curator | Hiroto Kono | History of Science and Technology | ||
Division of Physical Sciences | Head of the Division | Toshihiro Horaguchi | Astronomy, astronomical science | |
Senior Curator | Satoko Murotani | Seismology | ||
Curator | Shun Hayashi | Chemistry | ||
Department | Position | Name | Research Field | |
Center for Collections | Collection Director & Head of the Center for Molecular Biodiversity Research |
Makoto Manabe | Mesozoic reptiles and birds including dinosaurs | |
Deputy Collection Director & Deputy Head of the Center for Molecular Biodiversity Research |
Utsugi Jinbo | Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), biodiversity informatics | ||
Department | Position | Name | Research Field | |
Center of the History of Japanese Industrial Technology | Head of the Center | Masahiro Maejima | Electric engineering (electricity, communication technology), history of technology | |
Head | Osamu Kamei | Organic resources chemistry (Resources, Energy, Environment science), Science education | ||