Hiroyuki Sakakibara
Kobe University
Biography
Dr. Hiroyuki Sakakibara is a Professor at the Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Japan. After getting his Ph.D. in 2002 at Kobe University (Japan), he worked as a Post-doctoral fellow at INRA Centre Clermont-Ferrand (France), and then Post-doctoral fellow at Tokushima University (Japan). Thereafter, he obtained an academic position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Shizuoka (Japan) in 2006.
Following this, he moved to the University of Miyazaki as Associate Professor in 2012 and was promoted to Professor in 2016. In 2024, he moved back to Kobe University (Japan). His research is focused on functional food science based on rodent animal models, and cultured cell methods in addition to in vitro techniques, especially, anti-obese, anti-diabetes, and brain function. Recently, he is also interested in the research field of Toxicology and Food Processing.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, Food & Function