Biography

Masatoshi Murase is an Associate Professor of Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics at Kyoto University, and is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Integrated Creative Studies (ISSN: 242-0370). He is also Director of Research Promotion Strategy Office at The International Research Unit of Advanced Future Studies of Kyoto University. He received a PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1987. Positions held overseas include a period as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Physiology Department at Duke University Medical Centre from 1987 to 1988, and an Associate Professorship in the Department of Mathematics of the University of California at Davis from 1990 to 1991. He is the author of The Dynamics of Cellular Motility (Wiley, 1992), and is the author of Life as History: Construction of Self-nonself Circulation Theory (Kyoto University Press, 2000).

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Research Interest

Meta-Biology, integrated theory of life, theoretical biology, constructive recognition, semantic theory, environmental biology, theory of aging, emergent disease, origin and evolution of life.