Hirokazu Kobayashi                 

10/2011      10/2014      10/2018

CORRESPONDENCE:
Hirokazu Kobayashi, Ph.D.
CEO, Green Insight Japan, Inc.
e-mail: kobayashi@ginsight-jpn.com

Professor Emeritus, Visiting Professor (School of Pharmaceutical Sciences), University of Shizuoka
e-mail: hirokoba@u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp

MEMBER OF SOCIETIES:
The International Society for Plant Molecular Biology (ISPMB); The American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB); The Genetics Society of America (GSA); The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB); European Society For Photobiology (ESP)
The Molecular Biology Society of Japan; The Japanese Biochemical Society; The Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Agrochemistry; The Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists (JSPP), The Botanical Society of Japan

PERSONAL HISTORY:
October, 2021-March, 2023:
Director, Division for Research Strategy, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), until MEXT's "Program for Promoting the Enhancement of Research Universities" (Japanese website) terminated.

August, 2020-:
CEO, Green Insight Japan, Inc.

April, 2020-:
Visiting Professor, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka

April, 2020-:
Professor Emeritus, University of Shizuoka

March, 2020:
Retirement from the University of Shizuoka at the age limit

2013-2015, 2017-2019:
Dean, Graduate School of Integrated Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Sciences
Dean, Graduate Division of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences

2015-2017:
Vice-President

2006-2011:
Dean, Graduate School of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences

2005-2006, 2011-2014:
Chair, Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences

2003-2020:
Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Plant Molecular Improvement1
Graduate School of Integrated Pharmaceutical and Nutritional Sciences2, University of Shizuoka
    1The former "Laboratory of Plant Cell Technology" renamed in 2008
    2The former "Graduate School of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences" reorganized in 2012

1991-2003:
Associate Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Plant Cell Technology
Graduate School of Nutritional and Environmental Sciences, University of Shizuoka

1993-1998:
Associate Professor (Adjunct)
Laboratory of Biological Regulation and Photobiology, National Institute for Basic Biology
    The research activities in 1997    

1984-1991:
Assistant Professor
Radioisotope Research Center, Nagoya University

1983-1984:
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
The Late Lawrence Bogorad's Laboratory, Harvard University

1982:
Ph.D. Degree (Plant Biochemistry, Nagoya University)
The Late Takashi Akazawa's Laboratory, Nagoya University

1979:
M.S. Degree (Plant Biochemistry, Nagoya University)
The Late Takashi Akazawa's Laboratory, Nagoya University

1977:
B.S. Degree (Plant Pathology, Tottori University)
The Late Syoyo Nishimura's Laboratory, Tottori University

1973:
Fukuchiyama Senior Highschool, Kyoto Prefecture

1954:
Birth

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY (on the Occasion of Retirement):    

PUBLICATIONS:    

HOMEPAGE of Green Insight Japan, Inc. (August, 2020-):    

HOMEPAGE of the Laboratory of Plant Improvement (-March, 2020):    

FAVORITE WORDS AND PROPERTY    


Japanese

April 1, 2023, updated      Hirokazu Kobayashi