Masahiro Takinoue

Masahiro Takinoue is a Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), Japan. He is a biophysicist studying artificial cell science, molecular computing, and DNA/RNA nanotechnology. He received his physics B.Sc. in 2002 and his physics Ph.D. on DNA thermodynamics and molecular computing in 2007 at The University of Tokyo (U-Tokyo), Japan. After serving as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at U-Tokyo, a postdoctoral fellow at Kyoto University, Japan, and an assistant professor at Institute of Industrial Science at U-Tokyo, he served as an associate professor at Tokyo Tech. He has been a full professor at Department of Computer Science at Tokyo Tech since 2022. He also has served as a professor at Research Center for Autonomous Systems Materialogy (ASMat), Institute of Innovative Research (IIR) at Tokyo Tech. His current research topic is DNA/RNA-based liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) condensates. He focuses on creating dynamical behaviors of DNA/RNA-based LLPS condensates with various functions such as molecular computation, controlled autonomous division, and mechanical motions toward constructing dynamical artificial cells.