EDUCATION

04/2006–02/2012 PhD in Statistical Physics Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan
04/2004–03/2006 MSc of Pure and Applied Physics Department of Pure and Applied Physics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan
04/2000–03/2004 BSc of Physics Department of Physics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

04/2023– to data Senior Scientist Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, RIKEN, Japan
04/2018–03/2023 Research Scientist Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, RIKEN, Japan
05/2017–03/2018 Research Scientist Quantitative Biology Center, RIKEN, Japan
04/2017–04/2017 Research Scientist Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Japan
05/2013–03/2017 Assistant Professor (Special Appointment) Research Center for the Mathematics on Chromatin Live Dynamics, Hiroshima University, Japan
04/2012–04/2013 Research Scientist Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University, Japan
04/2009–03/2012 Research Associate Waseda University, Japan

RESEARCH GRANTS

10/2023–03/2029 Understanding the mammalian cell fate regulation framework through multimodal spatiotemporal integrated omics analysis
CREST Bio-DX
PI: Hiroshi Ochiai, Co-PI: Soya Shinkai (31,460kJPY)		 200,000kJPY
04/2023–03/2025 Modality of chromatin viscoelasticity and loop formation based on Hi-C data
KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A)
PI: Soya Shinkai		 4,600kJPY
06/2022–03/2025 Fluctuations in transcriptional regulation and cancer cell malignancy as captured by chromatin dynamics
KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
PI: Ryu-suke Nozawa, Co-PI: Soya Shinkai (500kJPY)		 5,000kJPY
04/2022–03/2025 Elucidation of the linkage between higher-order genomic structural dynamics and gene expression
KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
PI: Hiroshi Ochiai, Co-PI: Soya Shinkai (1,550kJPY)		 13,400kJPY
09/2021–03/2023 Modality of 3D genome organization in hydrodynamic interactions
KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A)
PI: Soya Shinkai		 3,900kJPY
04/2020–03/2022 Genome information physics based on microrheology of the 3D genome organization
KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area)
PI: Soya Shinkai		 2,200kJPY
06/2018–03/2020 Polymer modeling for 3D chromosome structure with a deep learning and 4D simulation
KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area)
PI: Soya Shinkai		 4,200kJPY
04/2016–03/2018 Interactions within chromatin domains by a mathematical model of chromosomes with epigenetic information
KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (Research in a proposed research area)
PI: Soya Shinkai		 3,700kJPY
04/2016–03/2018 Simultaneous imaging of chromatin fractal dimensions and temperature in living cell nucleus
KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
PI: Soya Shinkai, Co-PI: Takeshi Sugawara		 2,900kJPY

SCIENTIFIC REVIEWS