Profile: Jose Nacher, Ph.D.

           Jose Nacher, Ph.D. Professor                  

           Department of Information Science                           

           Faculty of Science                                                                             

           Toho University                                                                             

                東邦大学理学部情報科学科ナチェル研究室

• Profile & Lab. Research

Jose Nacher is a physicist, who earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at Valencia University, in the summer of 2001. His research contributed to the fields of elementary particles, and nuclear matter physics with 8 papers published in international journals (three developed during his Ph.D. research stays at Osaka University) and 12 publications in proceedings.

From 2003-2007, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Bioinformatics Center, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University. He was also appointed as a research fellow under a JSPS fellowship research funding from 2005-2007 at the Bioinformatics Center, Kyoto University.

Between 2007-2012, he was a Lecturer and an Associate Professor at the Department of Complex and Intelligent Systems -Future University, concurrently with a visiting Associate Professsor appointment at Kyoto University (2011-2012) and Future University (2012-2013), respectively. 

From April 2012 he was an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Science, Toho University. Since April 2016, he is a Professor at the Department of Information Science, Toho University

He is a reviewer of more than 30 international journals in his field, serves as an Editorial Review Board of the International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics (IJKDB) since 2009,  as an Editorial Board of the Computatio​nal Biology Journal since 2012 and as an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports -Nature Publishing Group-. His academic research  works  received more than 2,950 citations according to the Google Scholar (H:29, I:54). 

Our laboratory research interests include the development and application of novel mathematical methods and algorithms in computational and systems biology as well as data analyses of structures and dynamics of large complex networks, including real data-driven social, technological and biological systems.

This laboratory actively conducts research on complex biological systems characterized by large-scale networks and pathways. These include, but are not limited to, protein–protein interactions, metabolic pathways, gene regulatory networks, and multi-omics data analysis, as well as mathematical models of complex networks and dynamic systems. The research is interdisciplinary, integrating discrete algorithms, data analysis, control theory techniques, neural network models and other AI-based approaches, and methods from statistical mechanics, among others.  We welcome inquiries from students who are interested in pursuing graduate research in these areas. For postdoctoral opportunities through JSPS programs, please contact me directly by email.

• Research Publications