Koji Sode's Biography

Koji Sode, Chair, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Dr. Koji SODE received B.S. in chemical engineering, M.S. in electrochemistry and PhD in engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology. During his graduate student period, he engaged as a research fellow at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zuerich (ETH-Z), Biotechnology Institute. He started his academic appointment as Research Associate at Tokyo Institute of Technology, following at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo. In 1990, he was promoted as an Associated Professor, at the Department of Biotechnology, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. In 2000, he was promoted as full Professor in the Department of Biotechnology. His current research interest is the biomolecular engineering for the development of novel biosensing system and for the synthetic biology based bioprocess design.