Curriculum Vitae

Education

Apr. 2010-Mar. 2016   Ph.D. student Graduate School of Science. Kyoto University

Apr. 2008-Mar. 2010   Master student Graduate School of Science. Kyoto University

Apr. 2004-Mar. 2008   Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University

Professional Experience

Sep. 2022-present        Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Center for the Study of Co*Design, Osaka University 

Mar. 2022-Aug. 2022  Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University

Mar. 2022-Aug. 2022  JSPS Overseas Research Fellow

Oct. 2019-Aug. 2022  Assistant Professor, Unit of Synergetic Studies for Space,  Kyoto University

Apr. 2021-Sep. 2021   Part-time Lecturer, Ryukoku University

Apr. 2019-Sep. 2019   Part-time Lecturer, Ryukoku University

Apr. 2019-Sep. 2019   Part-time Lecturer, Hiroshima City University

Aug. 2018-Sep. 2019  Postdoctoral researcher, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University

Apr. 2016-Jul. 2018     Assistant research staff, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University

Apr. 2010-Mar. 2013  JSPS Research Fellow DC1

Publications (peer-reviewed paper)

Kawaguchi Y, Nakamura K, Tajima T, Waller BM. (2023) "Revisiting the baby schema by a geometric morphometric analysis of infant facial characteristics across great apes." Scientific Reports. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-31731-4

Tsutaya, T., Wong, A., Malim, P. T., Bernard, H., Ogawa, N. O., Ohkouchi, N., Hongo S, Tajima T, Kanamori T, Kuze, N. (2022). Stable isotopic investigation of the feeding ecology of wild Bornean orangutans. American Journal of Biological Anthropology.

Kano F, Furuichi T, Hashimoto C, Krupenye C, Leinwand JG, Hopper LM, Martin CF, Otsuka R, Tajima T. (2021)  "What is unique about the human eye? Comparative image analysis on the external eye morphology of human and nonhuman great apes" Evolution and Human Behavior.

Kinoshita K, Indo Y, Tajima, T. et al. (2021) "Comparative analysis of sperm motility in liquid and seminal coagulum portions between Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) and chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)" Primates 62: 467-473.

Tajima T, Malim TP, Inoue E. (2018) “Reproductive success of two male morphs in a free-ranging population of Bornean orangutans” Primates. 59: 127–133.

Iwata Y, Tajima T. (2016) "Before Gift: Food sharing in great apes" In: (ed) Kishigami N. "Rethinking Gift Theory" pp. 42-69. Rinsen-shoten, Japan (in Japanese) 

Kuze N, Dellatore D, Banes GL, Pratje P, Tajima T, Russon AE. (2012) "Factors affecting reproduction in rehabilitant female orangutans: Young age at first birth and short inter-birth interval" Primates. 53: 181–192. 

Tajima T, Kurotori H. (2010) “Nonaggressive interventions by third parties in conflicts among captive Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)” Primates. 51: 179–182.

Research Grants

Apr. 2021-Mar. 2024 Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists of JSPS (for the genetic study on Bornean orangutans and conservation)

Apr. 2019-Feb. 2020  The Sasakawa Scientific Research Grant of the Japan Science Society (for the hormonal study on captive and wild Bornean orangutans)

Apr. 2018-Mar. 2019  The Sasakawa Scientific Research Grant of the Japan Science Society (for the genetic study on wild Bornean orangutans)

Apr. 2018-Mar. 2020  Joint Research of Wildlife Research Center, Kyoto University (for the genetic/hormonal studies on captive and wild orangutans)

Apr. 2018-Apr.  2019  Japan Giving Crowd Funding (for the genetic study on wild Bornean orangutans)

Apr. 2010-Mar. 2013  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of JSPS (for the study on food-sharing behavior and reproductive tactics in Bornean orangutans)

Awards

Nov. 2021  Audience award for the best presentation. The 26th JFACE Annual Congress (Hormonal changes during the facial development in male Orangutans)

Nov. 2016  Incentive award, The Interdisciplinary Research Idea Contest of Kyoto University (Interdisciplinary study on "Power of Face")

Mar. 2013  Best presentation award, Society for Ecology in Japan (Male reproductive tactics in Bornean orangutans)

Mar. 2010  JASSO Repayment Exemption for Outstanding Students

Outreaches

Director, Approved Specified Nonprofit Corporation in Japan “Japan Orangutan Research Center” 

https://www.orangutan-research.jp/en/

Membership of Academic Societies

The Primatological Society of Japan,  International Primatologists Society,  The  Ecological Society of Japan

Fieldwork Experiences

2009-2016  Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre, Sabah, Malaysia

                           Behavioral study on semi-wild orangutans

2011- present  Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah, Malaysia

                           Behavioral study on wild orangutans

2019-2020  Biosphere2, University of Arizona, USA

                            Research and education for Human Space Activity