Akihiko Mougi

2013‐  Associate Professor, Shimane University 

• 2008 Ph.D. - Hokkaido University (Fisheries Science) 

• 2005 M.S.  - Hokkaido University (Fisheries Science)

• 2003 B.S.   - Hokkaido University (Fisheries Science)

• 2011-2013 Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Michio Kondoh, Ryukoku University

• 2008-2011 Postdoctoral Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of  Science for Young Scientists with  Prof. Yoh Iwasa, Kyushu University. During this period, visiting  University of Toronto, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Lab of Prof. Peter Abrams)

Theoretical Ecology: 

• Coevolution of species interactions

• Eco-evolutionary dynamics

• Dynamics of complex ecosystems

• Food webs

American Naturalist, Behavioral Ecology, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, Ecological Monographs, Ecological Research, Ecology and Evolution, Ecology Letters, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Mathematical Biology, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Mathematical Biosciences, Oikos, PeerJ, PLoS ONE, Population Ecology, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Royal Society Open Science, Scientific Reports, Theoretical Ecology, Theoretical Population Biology, Theory in Biosciences

• The Ecological Society of Japan 

• The Society of Population Ecology

• The Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology

• 2014 The Young Scientists' Prize (The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)

• 2013 Miyadi Award (The Ecological Society of Japan)

• 2012 Young Scientist Award (The Society of Population Ecology)

• A Mougi, M Kondoh (2016) Food-web complexity, meta-community complexity and community stability. Scientific Reports 6: 24478.

• A Mougi, M Kondoh (2012) Diversity of interaction types and ecological community stability. Science 337:349-351.

• A Mougi, O Kishida, Y Iwasa (2011) Coevolution of phenotypic plasticity in predator and prey: why are inducible offenses rarer than inducible defenses? Evolution 65:1079-1087.

• A Mougi, Y Iwasa (2010) Evolution towards oscillation or stability in a predator-prey system. Proc R Soc B 277:3163-3171.

• A Mougi, O Kishida (2009) Reciprocal phenotypic plasticity can lead to stable predator-prey interaction. J Anim Ecol 78:1172-1181.