Members

Masashi K. Kajita (梶田 真司)

Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Engineering, University of Fukui

Fields: mathematical biology, biophysics, bioinformatics

Profiles: researchmap · Google Scholar · ORCID

Career

• Apr 2024 – present: Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Engineering, University of Fukui
• Mar 2020 – Mar 2024: Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Engineering, University of Fukui
• Oct 2017 – Feb 2020: Research Associate, Department of Informatics and Electronics, Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo (Aihara Lab)
• Apr 2017 – Sep 2017: Project Researcher (postdoc), Department of Informatics and Electronics, Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo (Kobayashi Lab)
• Apr 2014 – Mar 2016: JSPS Research Fellow (DC2), the University of Tokyo (Aihara Lab)
• Apr 2012 – Mar 2013: Assistant Technical Staff, Department of Informatics and Electronics, Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo (Kobayashi Lab)

Concurrent appointments:

• Affiliated Faculty Member, Life Science Innovation Center, University of Fukui (from Mar 2020)
• Affiliated Faculty Member, Fibers and Materials Research Center, University of Fukui (from Jul 2020)
• Collaborative Researcher, Department of Informatics and Electronics, Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo (from Apr 2020)
• Collaborative Researcher, International Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN), the University of Tokyo (from Apr 2021)
• Collaborative Researcher, Beyond AI Institute, the University of Tokyo (from Dec 2021)

Education

• Apr 2013 – Mar 2017: Department of Mathematical Informatics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo (Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology, 2017). Supervisor: Prof. Kazuyuki Aihara
• Apr 2010 – Mar 2012: Department of Biological Information, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Master of Science in Biological Information, 2012). Supervisor: Prof. Makio Tokunaga
• Apr 2006 – Mar 2010: Department of Biological Sciences, School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Science, 2010). Supervisor: Prof. Makio Tokunaga

Scholarship

• Apr 2010 – Mar 2012: Master 21, Yoshida Scholarship Foundation (non-repayable)

Award

• Jun 2015: Excellent Poster Award, the 15th University of Tokyo Life Science Symposium (BIO UT 2015)

Funding

As principal investigator:

• JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 26K00674 (Apr 2026 – Mar 2030)
• Takeda Science Foundation, Life Science Research Grant (Jun 2025 – Mar 2030)
• JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, 21K17851 (FY2021–2025)
• JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, 18K18147 (FY2018–2021)
• JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (FY2014–2015)

As co-investigator:

• JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 25K08941 (FY2025–2028)
• JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S), 15H05707 (project period FY2015–2019; co-investigator from FY2019)

Member of: the Biophysical Society of Japan; the Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology; the Japanese Society for Quantitative Biology

Students (AY2026)