Current and Upcoming Visitors
All current and upcoming visitors are listed below, while past visitors can be found here.
The visitors' profiles can be found further down. Profiles of Thematic Programs can be found on their respective websites linked below.
Name | Arrival | Departure | Field | Units of Interest | |
Jonathan Brundan | 2025/03/01 | 2025/05/30 | Mathematics, Representation Theory | Speyer | VS |
Susumu Ariki | 2024/11/04 | 2025/03/29 |
Mathematics | Representation Theory |
Speyer | Toriumi |
DV |
James Berg | 2024/10/28 | 2025/02/17 | Neuroscience | Doya | Fukunaga | Kuhn | T. Takahashi | Yamada | Yoshida | VS |
Il Memming Park | 2024/10/15 | 2025/02/28 | Engineering and Applied Sciences | Neuroscience, Recurrent neural network, neural state space model, dynamical systems, statistical signal processing, machine learning, neuro AI | Doya | Fukai | Hikami | Pao | Pigolotti | Uusisaari | VS |
Amiram Moshaiov | 2024/10/01 | 2024/12/30 | Computer Science, Multi-objective Games, Computational Intelligence | Husnik | Yamada | Dieckmann | Sallan | Armitage | VS |
Mihnea Bostina | 2024/10/01 | 2025/09/30 | Biology, Structural Biology, Virology | Bandi | Chakraborty | Husnik | Kusumi | Wickens | Yamamoto | Wolf, Sitsel | VS |
Ana Belen Sainz | 2024/09/15 | 2025/09/14 | Physics, Quantum Foundations, Quantum Information Theory | Nic Chormaic | Ekert | Elkouss | Höhn | Nemoto | Speyer | H. Takahashi | VS |
Havva Yoldas | 2024/08/15 | 2024/12/14 | Mathematics, Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Kinetic Theory, Mathematical Biology | Abdulla | Kiyomitsu | Liu | Meitinger | Zhou | VS |
Raphael Winter | 2024/08/15 | 2024/11/14 | Mathematics, Mathematical Physics, Kinetic theory | Abdulla | Liu | Zhou | VS |
Koji Fujiwara | 2024/08/01 | 2024/09/30 |
Mathematics, Geometry, Topology, Geometric group theory |
Feichtner-Kozlov | Hikami | Zhou |
DV |
Erich Bornberg | 2024/06/23 | 2024/09/20 | Chemistry, Theoretical Biochemistry, Evolution, Origins of Life, Structural Biology, Genomics | Bourguignon | Kondrashov | Laudet | Laurino | N. Luscombe | Pääbo | Rokhsar | VS |
Lucy Lai | 2024/06/01 | 2025/05/30 | Computational Cognitive Neuroscience | Tripp | Doya | VS |
Pedro Lopes | 2024/06/01 | 2024/10/30 |
Computer Science | Neuroscience, Human-Computer Interaction |
Froese | Qi | Shen | Tani |
VS |
Hirokazu Shirado | 2024/05/20 | 2024/08/09 | Computer Science | Sociology, Computational Social Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Social Networks | Dieckmann | Froese | Reiter | Tani | Yamada | VS |
Louise Hespel | 2024/05/19 | 2024/08/17 | Chemistry | Material Science, polymer | C. Luscombe | Yamada | VS |
Sergii Strelchuk | 2024/05/15 | 2024/08/13 | Mathematics | Quantum computing | Busch | Ekert | Elkouss | Myers | Nemoto | Shannon | VS |
Joshua Goldberg | 2024/06/03 | 2024/09/03 | Neuroscience, Cellular and systems neurophysiology, Computational Neuroscience | Abdulla | Doya | Fukai | Pigolotti | Wickens | VS |
Han Zhao | 2024/05/23 | 2024/07/31 | Computer Science, Machine Learning | Yamada | VS |
Anthony Genot | 2024/04/28 | 2024/11/10 |
Chemistry | Engineering and Applied Sciences | DNA nanotechnology |
N. Luscombe | Shen |
DV |
Srikanth Ramaswamy | 2024/04/30 | 2024/08/30 | Neuroscience, Data Science, Neural Networks Modeling, Big Data | De Schutter, Doya, Kuhn, Reiter, Wickens, Yazaki-Sugiyama | VS |
Aaron Chan | 2024/04/15 | 2024/08/30 |
Mathematics | Representation theory of finite-dimensional algebra and related categorical structures |
Speyer | Toriumi |
DV |
Yuzhe Li | 2024/04/15 | 2024/07/06 |
Computer Science | Neuroscience | Computational Neuroscience
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Doya, Kuhn |
DV |
Luiza Angheluta | 2024/04/06 | 2024/04/25 | Computer Science, Physics, Broken Symmetry, Topology | Bandi, Chakraborty, Gioia, Pigolotti, | A |
Keiko Aoki | 2024/04/05 | 2024/06/27 | Material Science, Mathematics, Physics, Molecular dynamics simulation | Bandi, Chakraborty, Hikami, Husnik, Liu | DV |
Nick Dorey | 2024/02/29 | 2024/07/14 | Theoretical High Energy Physics | Hikami, Neiman, Toriumi | VS23 |
Izaak Neri | 2024/01/31 | 2024/04/25 |
Mathematics, Physics |
VS23 | |
Jana Björn | 2024/01/08 | 2024/08/15 | Mathematics | VS23 | |
Anders Björn | 2024/01/08 | 2024/08/15 | Mathematics | VS23 | |
Daniel Chourrout | 2023/08/03 | 2024/07/30 | Evolution, Marine Science | N. Luscombe (Host) | EVS23 |
All visitors give presentations during their stay at OIST. You can find details about upcoming seminars and lectures on the Events page. You can also subscribe to this iCal calendar containing all talks.
Visitor Profiles
Here are the profiles of visitors currently on campus.
Keiko Aoki
Office at OIST: Lab 5 EF03p
Keiko Aoki is an independent researcher based in Tokyo. Her main research field is condensed matter physics, and her main tool for research is molecular/particle dynamics simulation.
Since anisotropically fluctuating systems, such as liquid crystals and soft matter could not be properly treated by conventional molecular dynamics (MD) methods, we have developed a set of simulation methods which are called stress control methods. Stress control MD methods guarantee the system to be under hydrostatic pressure (or other condition) even in non-equilibrium processes. Time evolution under constant surface tension can be investigated by one of the stress control methods as well. This is in contrast to conventional MD methods, where only ensemble average can be controlled. The method is effective to investigate self-organization of soft matter, as well as glassy metastable states. ORCID ID
Nick Dorey
Office at OIST: Lab 5 EF03q
Nick Dorey received his PhD from Edinburgh University in 1991 and then held postdoctoral and junior faculty positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of Washington and Swansea University. He has been a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge since 2007. He is currently visiting OIST as a TSVP Visiting Scholar.
Izaak Neri
Office at OIST: Lab 5 EF03l
Izaak is a Senior Lecturer in Disordered Systems within the Mathematics Department at King’s College London. Izaak engages in two research domains. Firstly, he develops mathematical techniques for analysing complex systems, such as, neural networks, ecosystems, and complex fluids, with a specific focus on understanding the role of network structure and heterogeneity in their dynamics. In this context, he extends methods used for studying systems with all-to-all interactions to those within networked systems. Secondly, Izaak uses stochastic processes to explore nonequilibrium fluctuations in small systems, such as molecular motors, or decision-making processes in noisy environments.
Anders Björn
Office at OIST: Lab 5 EF03r
Anders Björn is a Professor of Mathematics at Linköping University, Sweden, where he also received his PhD in 1995. He was a postdoc at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and has later spent longer research periods at Charles University in Prague, University of Cincinnati and the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Stockholm. His research is in analysis on metric spaces, mainly in collaboration with Jana Björn. In particular, he is interested in p-harmonic functions, partial differential equations and various minimization problems. He studies various solving methods and properties of the solutions, such as their interior and boundary regularity and growth estimates. This is research in pure mathematics and its aim is to provide rigorous fundamentals for and a better understanding of some problems, which could come from natural sciences and other fields. Analysis on metric spaces makes it possible to study such questions simultaneously in many different settings, for example on very rough sets and for highly nonhomogeneous media. It also brings new insight into which properties and assumptions are really essential for the theory and which are the main obstructions. A popular-scientific description of Anders's research is at this website.
Jana Björn
Office at OIST: Lab 5 EF03g
Jana Björn is a Professor of Mathematics at Linköping University, Sweden, where she also received her PhD in 1996. She was a postdoc at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and then at Lund University. She has also spent longer research periods at Charles University in Prague, University of Cincinnati and the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Stockholm. Her research is in analysis on metric spaces, mainly in collaboration with Anders Björn. In particular, she is interested in p-harmonic functions, partial differential equations and various minimization problems. She studies various solving methods and properties of the solutions, such as their interior and boundary regularity and growth estimates. This is research in pure mathematics and its aim is to provide rigorous fundamentals for and a better understanding of some problems, which could come from natural sciences and other fields. Analysis on metric spaces makes it possible to study such questions simultaneously in many different settings, for example on very rough sets and for highly nonhomogeneous media. It also brings new insight into which properties and assumptions are really essential for the theory and which are the main obstructions. A popular-scientific description of Jana's research is at this website.
Daniel Chourrout
Office at OIST: Lab 5 EF03t
Daniel Chourrout has established the Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology in 1997 and been its director until 2020. This institute is a Partner of EMBL, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory since 2023. His own research is focused on the evolution of chordate development, using tunicates as model systems. Before moving to Norway, Daniel Chourrout was heading the Laboratory of Fish Genetics at INRA (French Institute of Research for Agriculture). His training is in Genetics from the University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris.