Fundamentals

Name: Kenta ISHIMOTO

Position: Associate Professor

Birth: Nara (Japan) in 1987

Address:

  Rm.316, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences,

  Kyoto University,  Kitashirakawa-Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku,

  Kyoto, 606-8502 Japan

E-Mail:  ishimoto (at) kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp

TEL: +81-75-753-7202     FAX: +81-75-753-7272


Academic Career

Aug 2019 - present      Associate Professor

                     - Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University

Apr 2018 - Jul 2019   (Project) Assistant Professor (tenure-track, MEXT Excellent Young Researcher)

                    - Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Tokyo

Apr 2017 - Feb 2019   JSPS Overseas Research Fellow

                    - Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Apr 2015 - Mar 2018   (Program-specific) Assistant Professor (non-tenure-track)

                    - The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University

Apr 2015 - Mar 2018   (concurrent appointment) Project Assistant Professor

                    - Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University

Apr 2012 - Mar 2015   JSPS Research Fellow (DC1)

                    - Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University


Part-time Appointments

Oct 2019 - Mar 2023   PRESTO Researcher, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

Apr 2015 - Mar 2016   Lecturer, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Setsunan University

Oct 2012 - Mar 2015   Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, Kyoto University

Apr 2008 - Mar 2012   Science Technician, Nishiyamato Gakuen High School  (Private School in Nara)


Professional Services

Oct  2023 - present      Section Editor, Mathematics in Medical and Life Sciences

Aug 2019 - present      Associate Editor (Mathematics Section), Royal Society Open Science


Education

Mar 2015  PhD in Mathematics - Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University

                    Supervisor:  Prof Michio Yamada and Prof Eamonn A. Gaffney (University of Oxford)

                    Thesis title: Hydrodynamics of squirming locomotion at low Reynolds numbers

Mar 2012  MSc in Mathematics - Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University

Mar 2010  BSc in Physics - Department of Physics I, Kyoto University


Awards

Oct 2022    Hiroshi Fujiwara Prize for Mathematical Sciences

Dec 2021    The Mimura Prize for Excellent Young Researchers 

Apr 2021     The Young Scientists' Award, The Commendation for Science and Technology 

                      by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

Mar 2021    The 2020 MSJ Prize for Excellent Young Applied Mathematician

Feb 2017     Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists

Mar 2016    Young Scientist Award of Physical Society of Japan

Mar 2014    Kyoto University President’s Award

Feb 2014    Award for Outstanding Paper in Fluid Mechanics, The Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics

Mar 2012    Iwadare Scholarship, Iwadare Foundation


Research Grant

AY2023 - 2029    Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), FOREST (JPMJFR212N) (PI)

AY2021 - 2025    JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A: 21H05309) (PI)

AY2019 - 2022    Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), PRESTO (JPMJPR1921) (PI)

AY2018 - 2023    JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (18K13456) (PI)

AY2017 - 2018    MEXT Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers (PI)

AY2016 - 2017    Kyoto University Supporting Program for Interaction-Based Initiative Team Studies (PI)

AY2015 - 2017    Kyoto University Hakubi Project (6th batch) (PI)

AY2015 - 2016    JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (Start-up: 15H06314) (PI)

AY2012 - 2014    JSPS Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow (DC1: 24-2077) (PI)


Teaching

AY2023    Introduction to Nonlinear Analysis  -   Department of Mathematics, Kyoto University

AY2022    Introduction to Nonlinear Analysis  -   Department of Mathematics, Kyoto University

AY2021    Special Study Course (Mathematical Sciences)  -   Faculty of  Science, Kyoto University  

AY2020   Invitation to Modern Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (Omnibus Lecture Series)

                    -  Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kyoto University  

AY2019    Exercise in Basics of Mathematical Sciences/ Theoretical Basics of Mathematics

                     -  College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo

AY2016    Calculus A, B - Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University

AY2015    Linear Algebra I , II - Faculty of Science and Engineering, Setsunan University


Workshop Organiser

AY2022    JSPS KAKENHI Project  - Ethological dynamics in diorama environments

One-day Workshop on Cellular-level Ethological Dynamics towards “Proto-Intelligence”, 29 Oct, 2022


AY2021   RIMS Research Project - Mathematical Biofluid Mechanics

 RIMS Tutorial Seminar: Lectures on patterns and dynamics in biology, 15-18, Jun 2021

 RIMS Symposium: Biofluid symposium, 21-24, Jun. 2021

 RIMS Workshop: Toward an integration of fluids, ecology, and evolution,  5-7, Jul 2021

 RIMS Workshop: Mathematical mechanobiology, 14-16, Jul, 2021

 RIMS Workshop: Biofluid mechanics of reproduction, 29-30, Jul, 2021 

 RIMS Workshop: Mathematical methods for the studies of flow, shape, and dynamics,  30-31, Aug, 2021 


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