PI

Principal Investigator

Yoko Yamakoshi, Ph.D.

Postdoc: ETH Zürich

Ph.D. The University of Tokyo

M.S.: Ochanomizu University

B.S.: Ochanomizu University

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ETH Hönggerberg HCI F323

Yamakoshi was born in Chiba (Japan) and raised in Utsunomiya and Tokyo, where she attended high school (Aoyama High School, Tokyo) and undergraduate education (Ochanomizu University).  After she obtained her M.S. at Ochanomizu University (1991) on natural product chemistry research, she was appointed as a tenured researcher at the National Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS) of Japan.  While working as a Research Chemist in NIHS, she obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo (1999) on the research about “Biological activity of photoexcited fullerenes” (advisor: Prof. Tetsuo Nagano).  She continued her studies as a postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zürich (advisor: Prof. François Diederich) supported by a JST Overseas Research Fellowship (1999-2001). She returned to the NIHS-Japan as a Senior Research Chemist (2001-2003), subsequently moved to the University of California at Santa Barbara as an Associate Researcher (100% PI, 2004-2007) and then to the University of Pennsylvania as an Assistant Professor (2007-2010) before joining ETH again as a Senior Scientist in 2010. Since December 2014, she is entitled as a professor in ETH.

Viisting researcher at the American Health Foundation, NY (1996), Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania (2010-), Visiting researcher in the Tokyo Metropolitan Insitute of Medical Science (2017).

Young Investigator Award from the International Society for Free Radical Research (1998), Encouragement  Award for Young Researcher from the Agricultural Chemical Research Foundation of Japan (2004), Innovation Award from Nano/Bio Interface Center at University of Pennsylvania (2008), JST PRESTO (2008-2012), Research Excellence Award from the American Heart Association (2011), The Society of Japanese Women Scientists Award (2015).