Keisuke Goda's Biography

Keisuke Goda, Professor of Chemistry, University of Tokyo and Adjunct Professor, Wuhan University

Keisuke Goda is a professor of chemistry at the University of Tokyo. He obtained a BA degree from UC Berkeley summa cum laude in 2001 and a PhD from MIT in 2007, both in physics. At MIT, he worked on the development of gravitational-wave detectors in the LIGO group which led to the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics. After several years of work on high-speed imaging and microfluidics at Caltech and UCLA, he joined the University of Tokyo as a professor. His research group focuses on the development of serendipity-enabling technologies based on molecular imaging and spectroscopy together with microfluidics and computational analytics. His pioneering work has been published in a number of top journals such as Nature and Cell. He has received numerous honors and prizes including Japan Academy Medal, Yomiuri Gold Medal, and JSPS Prize.