Education:

2018 Ph.D. Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University

2015 MS Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University

2013 BS Department of Agriculture, Kyoto University

Career:

2023-2026 OIST Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship

2020-2023 JSPS Research Fellow (CPD)

2020-2020 JSPS Research Fellow (SPD) changed to CPD

2018-2020 JSPS Overseas Research Fellow

2015-2018 JSPS Research Fellow (DC1)

Research interests

Evolutionary perspective of animal collective behavior and termites

Please see research and publication lists in detail

Awards & Fellowships

Awards

• • 2021 37th Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists

  • 2021 Young Scholar Award of the Ecological Society of Japan (ESJ Suzuki Award)

  • 2020 Japan Ethological Society Award

  • 2020 Young Scientist Initiative Award, Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan

  • 2018 Eighth Ikushi Prize, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Fellowships

• • 2020-2025 Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (CPD)

  • 2020-2023 Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (SPD)

  • 2018-2020 Postdoctoral Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Research Abroad

  • 2015-2018 Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC1)

Presentation Awards

• • 2018.3 Best English Presentation Award, The 62th Annual Meeting of the Society of Applied Entomology and Zoology

  • 2016.11 Best Poster Award The 32th Annual Meeting of the Society of Population Ecology

  • 2016.03 Best English Presentation Award The Joint Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of Japan and the Japanese Society of Applied Entomology and Zoology; Osaka Prefecture University, Sakai, Osaka

  • 2016.03 English Presentation Award Best Award The 63th Annual Meeting of ESJ in Sendai Japan

  • 2015.10 Best Poster award (Voting Top 2), SWARM 2015: The First International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics

  • 2015.10 Poster award, The 31th Annual Meeting of the Society of Population Ecology

  • 2014.03 English Presentation Award Best Award The 61th Annual Meeting of ESJ in Hiroshima Japan

  • 2013.11 Poster award, The 32th Annual Meeting of the Japan Ethological Society

Grants

• • 2023-2026 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Pioneering), 19,525,000 JPY (≈USD, AUD, EUR), “腸内微生物の実験的置換によるシロアリ進化の追体験”, PI: Tokuda G., Co-PIs: Bourguignon T., Mizumoto N., XXXXXX

  • 2023 OIST SHINKA grant FY2023, 800,000 JPY (≈USD, AUD, EUR), A new framework to comprehend nest migration dynamics in social insects with a diverse communication system PI: Mizumoto N., co-PI: Planas-Sitjà I.

  • 2023-2026 OIST Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship, 300,000 JPY annually (≈ USD,  AUD,  EUR), PI: Mizumoto N.

  • 2022-2023 Grant for Basic Science Research Project from the Sumitomo Foundation, 1,200,000 JPY (≈8,500 USD, 13,000 AUD, 8,500 EUR), "The role of resource competition in termite soldier evolution." PI: Mizumoto N., 2200302

  • 2022-2025 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 17,290,000 JPY (≈126,420 USD, 185,670 AUD, 124,900 EUR), "Maintenance mechanisms of the reproductive division of labor in social insects by long-term behavioral tracking." PI: Shimoji H., Co-PIs: Miura K., Mizumoto N., Dobata S., 22H02364

  • 2021-2022 The Motoo Kimura Trust Foundation for the Promotion of Evolutionary Biology, 230,000 JPY (≈ 2,080 USD, 2,800 AUD, 1,780 EUR), for Japan Eco-Evo English Seminar. PIs: Nobuaki Mizumoto, Jamie M. Kass

  • 2021-2024 JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, 4,680,000 JPY (≈ 43,000 USD, 57,670 AUD, 36,330 EUR), “Contact-based behavioral rules for insect collective motion.” PI: Nobuaki Mizumoto 

  • 2020-2025 JSPS Research Fellowship (SPD-CPD), 19,500,000 JPY (177,000 USD, 240,300 AUD, 151,380 EUR) for research, “Evolutionary process of termite construction revealed by comparative and constructive approaches.” PI: Nobuaki Mizumoto

  • 2019 Weaving the Future of Animal Behavior (WFAB) Program travel expense 500 USD

  • 2018 JSPS Overseas Research fellowship

  • 2015~2018 JSPS Research Fellowship (DC1), 2,800,000 JPY (≈ 25,400 USD, 34,500 AUD, 21,700 EUR) for research, PI: Nobuaki Mizumoto

  • 2014 Travel Award, The Japanese section of The International Union for the Study of Social Insects, 212,648 JPY (≈ 1,931 USD, 2,620 AUD, 1,650 EUR)