Hirofumi Shintaku, Assistant Professor, Kyoto University

Dr. Hirofumi Shintaku is an assistant professor of Micro Engineering at Kyoto University, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Kyoto University in 2006.
He is currently working as a visiting scholar at Stanford University and collaborating in the single cell analysis projects with Prof. Juan Santiago’s group.
His research includes the development of methods for sample preparation of biochemical analysis and measurement techniques for microfluidic systems.
He was awarded the Best Paper Award from JSAEM (’06), the IIP Division Award for Young Engineer from JSME(’09), JSME Young Engineers Award (’10), Osaka University Achievement Award (’11), and Certificate of Merit for Micro-Nano Science and Technology Division of JSME (14').