Education
Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2003
M.S., University of Tokyo, 1998
B.S., Waseda University, 1996
Exchange student, Lawrence University, 1993-1994
Appointments
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford University, 2008-present
Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2006-2008
Postdoctoral Fellow, Landcare Research, New Zealand, 2003-2005
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tokyo, 2005
Visiting researcher, Centre for Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, 2004
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Univeresity of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1998-2003
Grants and honors
Marsden Fund Standard Grant, Royal Society of New Zealand, 2006-2009
Seminar invitations by graduate students, Washington University, St. Louis, 2008; University of California, Irvine, 2009; Michigan State University, 2010
Denzaburo Miyadi Award, Ecological Society of Japan, 2005
US National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2002
Service
Editorial Board, Ecology Letters, 2007-present
Editorial Board, Oikos, 2006-present
Review panelist, US National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2007
Oustider reviewer for manuscripts, proposals and book chapters submitted to: American Naturalist, Annals of Botany, Applied Soil Ecology, Biological Invasions, BioScience, Diversity and Distributions, Ecological Modelling, Ecological Research, Ecology, Ecology Letters, Functional Ecology, Global Change Biology, Japanese Journal of Ecology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Vegetation Science, Nature, New Zealand Journal of Ecology, Oecologia, Oikos, Population Ecology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Restoration Ecology, Science, Trends in Ecology and Evolution; US National Science Foundation, Marsden Fund of the Royal Society of New Zealand, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation; and Walker, L.R. et al. (eds) Linking Restoration and Ecological Succession, Springer; Naeem, S. et al. (eds) The Ecological and Social Consequences of Changes in Biodiversity, Oxford University Press, 1998-present