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 (Home Institution) |
Arrival | Departure | Field | Units of Interest | |
Roslyn Ellen Taplin (SOAS University of London) |
2025-03-30 | 2025-06-28 | Environmental Management, Interdisciplinary education for SDGs | Twamley | VS |
Chuliang Song (UCLA) |
2025-03-23 | 2025-04-23 | Biology, Ecology, Mathematics, Quantitative Ecology, Species Coexistence, Rapid Evolution | Armitage, Dieckmann, Economo, Pigolotti | VS |
Jonathan Brundan (University of Oregon) |
2025-03-01 | 2025-05-30 | Mathematics, Representation Theory | Speyer | VS |
THEMATIC PROGRAM Computational and Physical Understanding of Biological Information Processing |
2025-02-24 | 2025-03-16 | Evolutionary Biology |
Abdulla, Armitage, Bandi, De Schutter, Dieckmann, Doya, Economo, Fried, Froese, Fukai, Fukunaga, Goda, Ishikawa, K. Tanaka, Kiyomitsu, Kondrashov, Liu, Masai, Myers, Pigolotti, Reiter, Saze, Stephens, T. Takahashi, Terenzio, Uusisaari, Watanabe, Wickens, Yamamoto, Yazaki-Sugiyama, Zhou |
TP |
Kohei Suzuki (Durham University) |
2025-01-04 | 2025-03-29 | Mathematics, differential geometry, partial differential equation, probability and stochastic analysis | Liu, Zhou | VS |
Claire Wyart (Sorbonne University) |
2025-01-04 | 2025-03-28 | Biology, Neuroscience, Sensorimotor integration, motor control, navigation | Laudet, Masai, Stephens | EVS |
Feng Liu (University of Utah) |
2024-12-20 | 2025-01-20 | Marine Science, Physics, condensed-matter physics, quantum materials | Dani, Narita, Okada, Qi, Shannon | VS |
Johnatan Aljadeff (UCSD) |
2024-12-12 | 2025-02-01 | Neuroscience, Physics, Dynamical systems and statistical physics modeling of neural networks | Doya, Fukai, Pao, Reiter, De Schutter | VS |
Yanfa Yan (University of Toledo) |
2024-12-02 | 2025-02-28 | Material Science, Energy Materials | Narita, Qi | VS |
Anna Pachol (University of South-Eastern Norway) |
2024-12-01 | 2025-02-28 | Mathematics, Physics, Quantum, mathematical/theoretical physics, Quantum Gravity | Höhn, Neiman, Toriumi | VS |
Ahmed Elhady (Konstanz University) |
2024-11-22 | 2024-11-30 | Biology, Ecology, Neuroscience, Physics, Behavioral modeling, stochastic biology | Pigolotti, Reiter | A |
Susumu Ariki (Osaka University) |
2024-11-04 | 2025-03-29 | Mathematics, Representation Theory | Speyer, Toriumi | DV |
Ana Belen Sainz (Gdańsk University) |
2024-11-01 | 2025-04-30 | Physics, Quantum Foundations, Quantum Information Theory | Nic Chormaic, Ekert, Elkouss, Höhn, Nemoto, Speyer, H. Takahashi | VS |
John Selby (Gdańsk University) |
2024-11-01 | 2025-04-30 | Quantum, Quantum foundations and information | Nic Chormaic, Elkouss, Höhn, Speyer, H. Takahashi | VS |
James Berg (Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics) |
2024-10-28 | 2025-02-15 | Neuroscience | Doya, Fukunaga, Kuhn, T. Takahashi, Yamada, Yoshida | VS |
Anthony Genot (University of Tokyo) |
2024-10-20 | 2024-11-10 | Chemistry, Engineering and Applied Sciences, DNA nanotechnology | N. Luscombe, Shen | DV |
Il Memming Park (Champalimaud Foundation) |
2024-10-15 | 2025-02-28 | Engineering and Applied Sciences, Neuroscience, Recurrent neural network, machine learning, neuro AI | Doya, Fukai, Hikami, Pao, Pigolotti, Uusisaari | VS |
Mihnea Bostina (Otago University) |
2024-10-01 | 2025-09-30 | Biology, Structural Biology, Virology | Bandi, Chakraborty, Husnik, Kusumi, Wickens, Yamamoto, Wolf, Sitsel | VS |
Shyam Srinivasan (University of California) |
2024-10-01 | 2025-07-28 | Biology, Computer Science, Neuroscience, Evolution, Quantitative Anatomy, Sensory Neuroscience | Goda, Pao | VS |
Michael Hausser (University College London) |
2024-09-01 | 2024-11-01 | Biology, Marine Science, Neuroscience, Computational neuroscience, Neural Computation | Dieckmann, Doya, Economo, Ekert, Fukai, Fukunaga, Goda, Kuhn, N. Luscombe, Miller, Reiter, Rokhsar, De Schutter, T. Takahashi, Uusisaari, Watanabe, Wickens, Yoshida | EVS |
Miguel Araújo (Spanish National Research Council) |
2024-08-20 | 2025-01-20 | Ecology, Conservation planning, Ecological networks, Predictive biogeography, Species distribution modelling | Armitage, Dieckmann, Economo, Mitarai, Neiman, Pao, Pigolotti, Ravasi, Yamada | VS |
Cintia Pacchiano (Calgary University) |
2024-08-19 | 2024-12-13 | Mathematics, Mathematical Analysis, Theoretical Aspects of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations | Liu, Zhou | VS |
Havva Yoldas (Delft University of Technology) |
2024-08-01 | 2024-11-30 | Mathematics, Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Kinetic Theory, Mathematical Biology | Abdulla, Kiyomitsu, Liu, Meitinger, Zhou | VS |
Raphael Winter (Cardiff University) |
2024-08-01 | 2024-10-30 | Mathematics, Mathematical Physics, Kinetic theory | Abdulla, Liu, Zhou | VS |
Koji Fujiwara (Kyoto University) |
2024-08-01 | 2024-09-30 | Mathematics, Geometry, Topology, Geometric group theory | Feichtner-Kozlov, Hikami, Zhou | DV |
THEMATIC PROGRAM Neuromodulation of Adaptive Learning |
2024-07-04 | 2024-08-11 | Neuroscience | De Schutter, Doya, Fukai, Fukunaga, Goda, Kuhn, Reiter, Tani, Wickens, Uusisaari, Yazaki-Sugiyama | TP |
Erich Bornberg-Bauer (Münster University and Max Planck Institute in Tübingen) |
2024-06-26 | 2024-08-16 | Chemistry, Theoretical Biochemistry, Evolution, Origins of Life, Structural Biology, Genomics | Bourguignon, Kondrashov, Laudet, Laurino, N. Luscombe, Pääbo, Rokhsar | VS |
Pedro Lopes (University of Chicago) |
2024-06-07 | 2024-08-11 | Computer Science, Neuroscience, Human-Computer Interaction | Froese, Qi, Shen, Tani | VS |
Lucy Lai (Harvard University) |
2024-06-03 | 2025-06-02 | Neuroscience, Computational Cognitive Neuroscience | Doya, Tripp | VS |
Manfred Schartl (Universität of Würzburg) |
2024-06-04 | 2024-06-09 | Biology, cancer genetics, vertebrate genetics and sex evolution | N. Luscombe, Laudet | C |
Joshua Goldberg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
2024-06-03 | 2024-09-03 | Neuroscience, Cellular and systems neurophysiology, neurodegenerative diseases; Computational Neuroscience | Abdulla, Doya, Fukai, Pigolotti, Wickens | VS |
Sergii Strelchuk (University of Cambridge) |
2024-05-31 | 2024-08-30 | Mathematics, Quantum, Quantum computing, quantum simulation, quantum algorithms and information theory | Busch, Ekert, Elkouss, Myers, Nemoto, Shannon | VS |
Rieko Osu (Waseda University) |
2024-05-27 | 2024-06-10 | Neuroscience, Cognitive neuroscience, Computational neurorehabilitation, Motor control and learning, Neurodiversity | Doya, Froese, Fukai, Tani, Tripp, Uusisaari | DV |
Riku Nakazato (Waseda University) |
2024-05-27 | 2024-06-10 | Neuroscience, Cognitive neuroscience, Computational neurorehabilitation, Motor control and learning, Neurodiversity | Doya, Froese, Fukai, Tani, Tripp, Uusisaari | A |
Han Zhao (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
2024-05-26 | 2024-08-25 | Computer Science, Machine Learning | Yamada | VS |
Hirokazu Shirado (Carnegie Mellon University) |
2024-05-20 | 2024-08-19 | Computer Science, Sociology, Computational Social Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Social Networks | Dieckmann, Froese, Reiter, Tani, Yamada | VS |
Florian Yger (Paris-Dauphine University) |
2024-05-20 | 2024-08-15 | Computer Science, Machine Learning | Pao, Yamada | A |
Louise Hespel (Rouen University) |
2024-05-20 | 2024-08-15 | Chemistry, Material Science, polymer | C. Luscombe, Yamada | VS |
Christophe Claramunt (Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology) |
2024-05-18 | 2024-05-23 | Computer Science, Geographical Information Science | Yamada, Armitage | A |
Srikanth Ramaswamy (Newcastle University) |
2024-04-30 | 2024-08-29 | Computational Neuroscience, Neural Networks Modeling, Big Data, Deep Learning, Artificial Neural Networks | De Schutter, Doya, Fukai, Fukunaga, Goda, Kuhn, Reiter, Tani, Wickens, Uusisaari, Yazaki-Sugiyama | VS |
Anthony Genot (University of Tokyo) |
2024-04-29 | 2024-05-12 | Chemistry, Engineering and Applied Sciences, DNA nanotechnology | N. Luscombe, Shen | DV |
Sona Roy (University of Tokyo) |
2024-04-28 | 2024-05-12 | Chemistry, Engineering and Applied Sciences, DNA nanotechnology | N. Luscombe, Shen | A |
Canberk Sanli (University of Cambridge) |
2024-04-17 | 2024-06-30 | Theoretical High Energy Physics | Hikami, Neiman, Toriumi | A |
Yuzhe Li (Nara Institute of Science and Technology) |
2024-04-16 | 2024-08-23 | Computer Science, Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience | Doya, Kuhn | DV |
Aaron Chan (Nagoya University) |
2024-04-14 | 2024-11-30 | Mathematics, Representation theory of finite-dimensional algebra and related categorical structures | Speyer, Toriumi | DV |
Luiza Angheluta (University of Oslo) |
2024-04-06 | 2024-04-25 | Theoretical Physics | Pigolotti, Chakraborty, Konstatinov, Gioia, Rosti, Shen, Fried, Touber | A |
Keiko Aoki (Tokyo) |
2024-04-05 | 2024-06-28 | Material Science, Mathematics, Physics, Molecular dynamics simulation | Bandi, Chakraborty, Hikami, Husnik, Liu | DV |
Shinichi Aizawa (Hiroshima University) |
2024-04-03 | 2024-04-19 | Biology, Physics, Bacterial flagella | Kusumi, Wolf | DV |
Paul Luis Roehl (University of Cambridge) |
2024-03-12 | 2024-07-31 | Theoretical High Energy Physics | Hikami, Neiman, Toriumi | A |
Nicholas Dorey (University of Cambridge) |
2024-02-29 | 2024-07-14 | Theoretical High Energy Physics | Hikami, Neiman, Toriumi | VS |
Izaak Neri (King's College London) |
2024-01-30 | 2024-04-25 | Mathematics, Physics | Dieckmann, Pigolotti | VS |
Anders Björn (Linköping University) |
2024-01-08 | 2024-08-15 | Mathematics | Abdulla, Liu, Zhou | VS |
Jana Björnová (Linköping University) |
2024-01-08 | 2024-08-15 | Mathematics | Abdulla, Liu, Zhou | VS |
Daniel Chourrout (University of Bergen) |
2023-08-04 | 2024-08-03 | Evolution, Marine Science | N. Luscombe | EVS |
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.
Srikanth Ramaswamy
Office at OIST: Lab 5 EF03o
Dr. Srikanth Ramaswamy, is a Marie Curie Fellow, a Lister Prize Fellow and an Assistant Professor in computational neuroscience at Newcastle University. He is also a Fulbright Scholar at MIT and a Theoretical Sciences Visiting Scholar at OIST. He directs the Neural Circuits Laboratory at Newcastle University. His research focuses on the role of neuromodulators in shaping cognition in biological neural networks and building biologically-informed neural network models. He is a founding scientist of the Blue Brain Project at Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL). He earned his PhD at the EPFL in computational neuroscience, where he developed data-driven modelling frameworks for biologically detailed digital models of neural networks. As a scientist of colour, Dr. Ramaswamy is passionately committed to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion and is a founding member of the ALBA network, where he leads efforts to advance DEI in neuroscience, including launching the ALBA diversity podcast series in late 2020, highlighting the stories of emerging neuroscientists from underrepresented backgrounds.
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.