Ken comes from Sapporo, Japan. He loves soccer and plant science. He got a PhD at the Hokkaido University in Japan (2004) and did a postdoc at University of Minnesota in the US (2011). He was a Research Group Leader at Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research (MPIPZ) until August 2019. He has been a Professor at HZAU and a guest Research Group Leader at MPIPZ from September 2019. He is interested in network properties, structures and dynamics in plant-microbe interactions, especially finding new concepts in biology.
Honour
湖北省政府“编钟奖”(2020~2022)
爱思唯尔中国高被引学者(2021,2022,2023)
科睿唯安中国高被引学者(2021,2022)
国家高层次人才计划 (2020)
湖北省高层次人才计划 (2020)
受邀参加全国抗击新冠肺炎疫情表彰大会(2020)
Global Peer Review Awards(Web of Science)(2018,2019)