Professor
Kenji Matsuura, Ph. D
Laboratory of Insect Ecology Graduate School of Agriculture,
Kyoto University
Professor CV
Laboratory of Insect Ecology Graduate School of Agriculture,
Kyoto University
Adress
Oiwakecho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyoku, Kyoto City, Japan
Tel : 075-753-6136
Fax : 075-753-6136
Email: matsuura.kenji.6s@kyoto-u.ac.jp
Key Words
Behavioral ecology, Sociobiology, Evolutionary biology, Applied entomology, Social insects, Termites, Kin selection, Pheromone, Caste differentiation, Parthenogenesis, Termite ball, Sex and genetic diversity
ReaD&Researchmap: project_matsuura
Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID): 0000-0002-9099-6694
ResearchGate: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kenji_Matsuura
Biographic Information
Kenji Matsuura is Professor of the Graduate School of Agriculture at Kyoto University, where he hasbeen since 2012. He received his undergraduate degree from Kyoto University in 1998 and his Ph.D. fromKyoto University in 2002. From 2002 to 2004 he was a postdoctoral research fellow at HarvardUniversity. He subsequently moved to his home town Okayama as an Assistant Professor at OkayamaUniversity. Following an Associate Professor at Okayama University, he moved in 2012 back to KyotoUniversity as Professor of Insect Ecology. He has received a number of awards for his researchexcellence (including Miyaji Award of the Ecological Society of Japan, Population Ecology Young ScientistAward and Japan Ethological Society Award) and was awarded Japan Academy Medal in 2011.
His research primarily focuses on the behavioral ecology and evolution of termites, including theevolution of reproductive systems, the evolution of pheromone communication, as well as theinteractions between termites and other organisms. His major scientific contributions and discoveriesinclude: the finding of the novel reproductive system of termites, Asexual Queen Succession (AQS)(published in Science); the first identification of termite queen pheromone (published in PNAS); discoveryof the termite-egg mimicking fungus ‘termite ball’ and identification of the mechanism of its eggmimicry (published in Royal Society B and Current Biology); test of kin selection in termites (published inNature Communications).
Education
1998 BS Department of Agriculture, Kyoto University
2000 MS Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
2002 Ph.D Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Fellowship
2000-2002 Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, DC1
2002-2004 Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, PD
Academic Positions
2002-2004 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, OEB (Organismic and Evolutionary Biology), HarvardUniversit
2004-2005 Assistant professor, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, OkayamaUniversity
2008-2012 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Okayama University
2012-present Professor, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
2016 Chairperson of Division, Division of Applied Biosciences, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
2020-2021 Director of Faculty Consort of Applied Biosciences, Kyoto University
Part-time Lecturer
2007 Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University
2010 Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
2014 Faculty of Science, Okayama University
2014 Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
2019 Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University
Main Honors and Prizes
◆2003 Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists
◆2004 Miyaji Award of the Ecological Society of Japan
◆2005 Young Scientist Award of the Foundation of Agricultural Sciences of Japan
◆2007 Microsoft Innovation Award of the Innovation Japan 2007
◆2007 Population Ecology Young Scientist Award
◆2007 Young Scientist Award of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
◆2008 Young Scientist Award of the Japanese Society of Applied Entomology and Zoology
◆2008 Young Scientist Award of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology,Japan
◆2009 Murakawa Innovation Award
◆2011 JSPS Prize, The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
◆2011 Japan Academy Medal, The Japan Academy
◆2011 Japan Ethological Society Award
◆2017 Research Award of the Japan Termite Control Association
◆2019 The JSAEZ Prize, the Japanese Society of Applied Entomology and Zoology
Society Committees
2006 Executive Committee of the Annual Meeting of the Japan Ethological Society
2009-2010, 2010-2012, 2015- Council Member of the Japanese Society of Applied Entomology and Zoology
2009-2012 Member of Annual Meeting Planning Committee of the Ecological Society of Japan
2011- 2012, 2013- Executive Committee of the Japan Ethological Society
2011- 2012, 2013- Executive Committee of the Society of Population Ecology
2011 Executive Chairman of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society of Population Ecology
2011-2012 Member of the committee of Population Ecology Young Scientist Award
2013 Member of the Working group on English Presentation Award of the Ecological Society of Japan
2014- The Awards Committee of the Ecological Society of Japan
2014- Kinki District committee of the Ecological Society of Japan
2015-2016 Auditor of the Entomological Society of Japan
2017- Director of the Japan Society of Applied Entomology and Zoology
2017- Steering committee of Japan Ethological Society
2017- Steering committee of the Society of Population Ecology
Journal Editorship
2008-2009 Editorial Board of Journal of Ethology
2009-2012 Editorial Board of Applied Entomology and Zoology
2013-2015 Editorial Board of Proceedings of the Royal Society B
2007- Editorial Board of Population Ecology
2017- Special Feature Editor of Population Ecology
2009- Associate Editor of Journal of Ethology
2011- Editorial Board of Insectes Sociaux
2018- Associate Editor of Insectes Sociaux
2014- Editorial Board of Zoological Letters
2017- Associate Editor in Chief, Ecological Research