Education
Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2003
Master's degree, University of Tokyo, 1998
Bachelor's degree, 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
Terman Fellowship, Stanford University, 2010-2013
US National Science Foundation, "CAREER: community assembly of nectar-inhabiting microbes," 2012-2017
US National Science Foundation, "Dissertation research: metabolic bet hedging as an explanation for maintenance of diverse tree-ectomycorrhizal mutualisms," 2012-2014 (awarded to Holly Moeller)
US National Science Foundation, "Collaborative research: interactive effects of predation and ecosystem size on arthropod food webs in Hawaiian forests fragmented by lava flows," 2010-2015
Marsden Fund of the Royal Society of New Zealand, "Do priority effects explain contrasting lineage diversification on islands?" 2013-2016 (received as co-PI)
Marsden Fund of the Royal Society of New Zealand, "Assembly history as a regulator of ecosystem functioning: a test with fungal communities," 2006-2009
Seminar invitations by graduate students, Washington University, St. Louis, 2008; University of California, Irvine, 2009; Michigan State University, 2010; University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2012
Denzaburo Miyadi Award, Ecological Society of Japan, 2005
US National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, "Dissertation research: regulation of species diversity by assembly history in ecological communities," 2002-2003
Service
Editorial board, Ecology Letters, 2007-present
Editorial board, Oikos, 2006-2010
Guest editor, Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 2012 issue
Review panelist, US National Science Foundation, 2007, 2011, 2013
Review panelist, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Science Foundation), for Jena Experiment, 2010
Reviewer for manuscripts, proposals and book chapters submitted to: American Journal of Botany, American Naturalist, Annals of Botany, Applied Soil Ecology, Biological Invasions, BioScience, Diversity and Distributions, Ecological Modelling, Ecological Research, Ecology, Ecology Letters, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Functional Ecology, Global Change Biology, Japanese Journal of Ecology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Vegetation Science, Microbial Ecology, 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, German Science Foundation; and Walker, L.R. et al. (eds) Linking Restoration and Ecological Succession, Springer; Naeem, S. et al. (eds) Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective, Oxford University Press, 1998-present