My research interests include ecology of African malaria mosquitoes, and biodiversity

and biogeography of aquatic insects such as stoneflies and caddisflies. I was a member

of a decade-long series of expeditions to collect plants and animals on the islands of the

Kuril Archipelago and Sakhalin Islands in the Russian Far East. I hold a PhD from the

University of Washington, Seattle, United States, and worked at the State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, before returning home to Japan. I studied salmon and trout for my graduate degrees and on my holidays, I can be found fly fishing in mountain streams in Japan or Africa.