April 7, 2023
Business Address:
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University
Motooka 744, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
phone: +81-(0)80-5268-2641,
Email : yohiwasa@kyudai.jp
Home Address:
Hara 1-27-16, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka 814-0022, Japan
phone and fax: +81-(0)92-843-4256
Date of Birth: 23 December 1952 - Osaka, Japan
Current Position:
Professor emeritus, Kyushu University
Visiting Professor, Kobe University, Graduate School of Medicine
Advisor, Riken, interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program, iTHEMS）
1980 Ph.D. - Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Dissertation: "Mathematical studies on adaptation and evolution of life histories." Advisor - Dr. Ei Teramoto
1977 M.S. - Kyoto University
1975 B.S. - Kyoto University
Theoretical Biology. Examples of my study areas include: pattern formation in cone mosaic of fish retina, leaf vein formation, circadian rhythm, somatic evolution of cancer, genomic imprinting, mate preference evolution, forest dynamics both in temperate and tropics, species coexistence and diversity in coral reef, and population extinction risk of animals and plants.
web site: http://bio-math10.biology.kyushu-u.ac.jp/%7Eiwasa/index-e.html
Google scholar citations: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qY6KJI4AAAAJ&hl=en
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0691-1852
ResearcherID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/G-5368-2010
2018-2021 Professor, Department of Biosciences, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University.
2018 Professor emeritus, Kyushu University
2010-2018 Director, Institute for Advanced Study Kyushu University
1992-2018 Professor, Department of Biology, Faculty
of Science, Kyushu University
1985-1992 Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Faculty
of Science, Kyushu University
1983-1985 Research Associate, Ecosystems Research Center, Postdoctoral Fellow
with Professor Simon A. Levin, Cornell University
1981-1983 Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Jonathan Roughgarden, Stanford
University
1980-1981 Postdoctoral Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
1979-1980 Predoctoral Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Foreign Research Institutes and Universities:
2014 Lecturer, Advanced Summer Course, Advanced Summer Course of Mathematical
methods of biological evolution." (org. Andrei Korobeinikov). Center for Mathematical
Research, Barcelona, Spain June. Lecturer in Universities in Japan:
American Naturalist, Behavioral Ecology, Behavioral Ecology and
Sociobiology, Benthos Research, BioMedCentral Bioinformatics, BioMedCentral
Evolutionary Biology, Botanical Magazine of Tokyo, Bulletin of Mathematical
Biology, Communications in Pure and Applied Analysis, Ecological Applications,
Ecological Modelling, Ecological Research, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Ethology,
Evolution, Evolutionary Ecology, Evolutionary Ecology Research, Genes to Cells,
Gene Therapy and Molecular Biology, Genetica, Genetics, Hydrobiologia, Journal
of Applied Mathematics and Computing, Journal of Applied Probability, Journal
of Ecology, Journal of Ethology, Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Journal of
Insect Behavior, Journal of Mathematical Biology, Journal of Molecular Evolution,
Journal of Plant Research, Journal of Royal Society Interface, Journal of Theoretical
Biology, Mathematical Biosciences, Mathematical Medicine and Biology, Molecular
Biology and Evolution, Nature, Naturwissenschaften, Oecologia, Oikos, Plant
Ecology, Plant Species Biology, PLoS Computational Biology, Proceeding of Royal
Society London, Researches on Population Ecology, SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics,
Theoretical Population Biology, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Vegetatio.
Editorial Board: Editor (Previous): Others:
Faculty 1000, Section Head for the Theoretical Ecology section
(with Simon A. Levin) 2004-2020 Ecological Society of Japan (President 2002-2003), Senior Program Officer (Biological Sciences), Research Center for Science Systems,
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science April 2016 - March 2019 Honors and Awards:
kira-Okubo Prize (Society for Mathematical Biology & JSMB) June, 2018.
Foreign Honorary Member, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences
October, 2006
The First Ecological Society of Japan Award (Ecological Society
of Japan) March 21, 2003.
The Third Motoo-Kimura Prize (Society of Evolutionary Studies,
Japan) August 1, 2003.
Publication awards:
Paper Award (Society for Environmental Scences, Japan) (with Mayuko
Nakamaru, Junko Nakanishi) October 5, 2001. Other Award:
Kyushu University, Super-star Supporting Program: Research Focus Senior Leader
2013 Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, National Tsing-Hua
University, Taiwan. November 23-December 13. (planned)
2013 Visiting scholar, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of
California at Santa Barbara. Program of "Cooperation and the Evolution
of Multicellularity" February 1 to March 1, 2013
2012 Research Associate, Leiden University Collage The Hague campus. (The Netherlands)
January 2012 to December 2013.
2008 Eminent Ecologist, Summer Course "Current Topics in Ecology and Evolution".
Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University. June 14-June 20.
2005 April-May; 2006 April-May; 2007 April-May: 2012 April-May; Visits to PED,
Harvard University.
2004-current, Faculty Affiliate of the Program in Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard
University
2004 Visiting Scientist, Harvard University, Program in Evolutionary Dynamics
. April-May
2003 Visiting Scientist, Harvard University, Program in Evolutionary Dynamics
. September-October
2002-2003 Member, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton. Program in Theoretical
Biology. September-May.
2000 Visiting Professor, Universite Montpellier II. (France) April-May.
1999 Academic Visitor. Adaptive Dynamics Networks. IIASA (International
Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Laxenburg, Austria. August.
1999 Long-term Academic Visitor, Institute for Mathematics and its Application,
University of Minnesota. "Mathematics for Biology." April-May.
1997 Academic Visitor, the Center for Community Genetics, University of
Minnesota. April 6-20.
1996-97 Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany. "Evolution
of Sex".
1995 Academic Visitor, Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College
at Silwood Park, U.K. July and August.
1994 Academic Visitor, Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College
at Silwood Park, U.K. July and August.
1993 van der Klaauw Professor, "Mathematical Biology". Institute
of Theoretical Biology, Leiden University, the Netherlands. April-July.
1993 Lecturer, Summer school on Nonlinear systems in evolutionary and
population biology. (organized by O.Diekman et al.)
Three lectures on "Optimal control and game models in ecology and behavior".
Driebergen, the Netherlands, May 6-10.
1992 Academic Visitor, Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College
at Silwood Park, U.K. July and August.
1988 Visiting scholar, Edward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology, University
of Oxford, U.K.
1988 Visiting professor, Center for Interdisciplinary Researches, University
of Bielefeld, Germany (FRD)
1985 Lecturer, Cornell University, In "Ecology core course, I. autecology",
Section of ecology and systematics, for graduate students.
1984 Lecturer, Simon Fraser University, In "Lecture series on optimal foraging
theory." for graduate students, Canada.
2021- Visiting Professor and Lecturer, Kobe Univeresity. Graduate School of Medical Sciences. Lecture: "Cancer as a mini-evolutionary process: mathematical approaches." (planned).
2021-23 Lecturer, Kwansei-gakuin University. School of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Department of Biosciences, "Theoretical Biology", "Ecosystem theory" for undergraduate.
2021 Visiting Professor, Kobe Univeresity. Graduate School of Medical Sciences. Lecture: "Cancer as a mini-evolutionary process: mathematical approaches." February 3, 2021
2020 Lecturer, iTHEMS, RIKEN-Wako "Adaptive strategies of organisms, and their mathematical bases." June 18, 19, 26, 27.
2019 Tohoku University, Graduate School of Information Sciences,"Mathematical Biology" (graduate students)
2019 SOKEN University, Hayama “Mathematical Biology” (graduate students)
2018 Nara Women's University, School of Science, "Mathematical Biology" (undergraduate)
2017 Kwansei-gakuin University. School of Science and Technology. Department of Bioscience, "Ecological Systems", "Theoretical Biology" (undergraduate).
2016 Kwansei-gakuin University. School of Science and Technology. Department of Bioscience, "Theoretical Biology" (undergraduate).
2015 Lecturer, Akita University. Faculty of Medicine. for graduate students (Ph D candidates).
2011 Hokkaido University. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science.
2009 Hokkaido University. Graduate School of Environmental Sciences.
2009 Ochanomizu University. Department of Physics. (Visiting professor)
2008 Kyoto University. Primate Research Institute.
2007 Hiroshima University. Graduate School of Sciences, Mathematical molecular
life sciences.
2005 , Okayama University. In Department of Mathematical Environmental Science,
Faculty of Environmental Science and Technology.
2003-2005 University of Tokyo. Mathematical biology. In Bioinformatics course.
Faculty of Science.
2002 Hiroshima University, Graduate School of Sciences, Mathematical molecular
life sciences.
2001 University of Tsukuba, School of Environmental Life Sciences.
2001 Kyoto University, Graduate school of science, Primate Research Institute.
2000 University of Tsukuba, School of Environmental Life Sciences.
1999 Hiroshima University, International Cooperation Study.
1999 University of Tokyo, School of Mathematical Sciences.
1999 University of Tokyo, Systems Science.
1999 Toyama University, Faculty of Science.
1998 Kyoto University, Faculty of Science.
1998 Kyoto University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Biology.
1998 Nagasaki University, Faculty of Fishery, for undergraduates.
1997 Tsukuba University, Division of Environmental Science.
1997 Osaka City University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology.
1997 Kanazawa University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology.
1996 Kyoto University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Biology.
1996 Nagoya University, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics.
1996 Okayama University, Faculty of Agriculture.
1995 Hokkaido University, Faculty of Agriculture, Applied Zoology.
1995 Tokyo Metropolitan University, Faculty of Science.
1994 Kyoto University, Faculty of Science.
1994 University of Tokyo, Faculty of Science.
1993 Tokyo Institute of Technology.
1993 Kyoto University, Faculty of Science. Inuyama (Primate Research Institute).
1993 University of Tokyo, Faculty of Agriculture.
1992-1996 Guest researcher, Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University.
1992 Kagoshima University, Faculty of Science.
1991 Kobe University, Faculty of Science.
1990 Simane University, Faculty of Science.
1986 , Kyoto University, Primate Research Institute.
1986-87, 1989-, Saga Medical School.
Editorial Board of Entropy (entropy and biology, section) 2021-
Editorial Board of Life. 2020-
Editorial Board of The Scientific Pages of Marine Biology and Aquaculture. 2017-
Editorial Board of Austin Biometrics and Biostatistics 2014-
Editorial Board of Annals of Marine Biology and Research 2014-
Editorial Board of International Scholarly Research Notices (Hindawi) 2014-
Associate Editor for Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 2014-
Editorial Board of Conference Papers in Environmental Sciences. 2012-
Editorial Board of Frontiers in Zoology (Regensburg, Germany) 2007-
Editorial Board of Theoretical Ecology 2007-
Editorial Board of Mathematical Biosciences 2004-
Editorial Board of Journal of Mathematical Biology 2000 -
Editorial Board of Evolutionary Ecology Research
(former, Evolutionary Ecology) 1994 -
Editorial Board of Plant Species Biology 1989 -
Associate Editor of Theoretical Population Biology 1988 -
Editorial Board of Austin Biometrics and Biostatistics 2014-
Editorial Board of Annals of Marine Biology and Research 2014-
Editorial Board of International Scholarly Research Notices (Hindawi) 2014-
Advisory Board for Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 2014-
Editorial Board of Conference Papers in Environmental Sciences. 2012-
Editorial Board of Journal of Zoo Biology 2013-2015
Editorial Board of Movement Ecology 2012-
Editorial Board of Conference Papers in Environmental Sciences. 2012-
Advisory Editorial Board of Trends in Ecology and Evolution 2000 -2020
Editorial Board of Movement Ecology 2012-2020
Advisory Editorial Board of Plant Ecology 2002 -2020
Editorial Board of Applied Mathematics (Scientific Research Publishing, USA)
2010-2020
Editorial Board of Journal of Zoo Biology 2013-2020
Editorial Board of IAFOR Journal of Sustainability, Energy and The Environment (Nagoya, Japan) 2012 -2020
Editorial Board of ISRN Evolutionary Biology 2012-2020
Journal of Theoretical Biology (2004-2019) (Co-Editor-in-Chief) Elsevier
Editorial Board of PeerJ (2012-2014)
Editorial Board of Plant Ecology (1992 -2000)
(former, Vegetatio: the International Journal
of Plant Ecology)
Editorial Board of Ecological Research (1991 - 1995)
Associate Editor of The American Naturalist (1991 - 1994)
Editorial Board of Behavioral Ecology (1990 - 1994)
Editorial Board of Journal of Evolutionary Biology (1990 - 1993)
Editorial Board of Biophysics (1989 - 1991)
Ecological Research (2005-2007) (Editor-in-Chief) Springer
Editorial Board of Population Ecology (1985 -2005 )Springer
(former, Researches on Population Ecology)
Faculty Opinion, Section Head for the Theoretical Ecology section (with Simon A. Levin)
2020-
Editorial Board of Theoretical Ecology Series, Elsevier (Chief editor: Alan
Hastings) 2005-
Chief Editor of Ecological Research Monographs Series, Springer 2008-
Chief Editor of Theoretical Biology Series, Springer 2018-
Socity of Evolutionary Studies Japan (President 2005),
Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology (President 2005-2006),
Society of Population Ecology (President 2009-2010),
Society for Mathematical Biology(Board of Directors 2005-2007),
American Society of Naturalists, Ecological Society of America,
Japan Ethological Society, Japan Society for Molecular Biology.
Council member, Science Council of Japan (the 23rd and 24th terms)
elected October 2014 (2014.10-2020.9)
Chair, Integrative Biology Committee, Life Sciences Division (2014.10-2020.9)
Member, Science Council of Japan,
elected July 1991 (1991.7-2014.9) (2020.10-2026.9)
Advisor, Riken, interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program, iTHEMS）
(2016.12.1-2024.3.31)
Chair, Seiwa-Scholar's Society, Inamori Fundation
Inamori Fundation, Board of Councilors (2011.6-2019.6)
Inamori Fundation, Board of Directors (2019.6-2023.6)
Kyushu Open University, Board of Directors (2021.10-)
The prize for an excellent research paper with encouragement.
(with Horoto Shoji) June 14, 2003
November 2004