Tomonari Akamatsu is Director/Senior Research Fellow at the
Ocean Policy Research Institute of The Sasakawa Peace Foundation. He was educated in theoretical physics at Tohoku University and received his Ph.D. (agriculture) from Nihon University in 1996. His research focus is in underwater bioacoustics and passive acoustic monitoring of aquatic creatures. He was a senior researcher at the National Research Institute of Fisheries Science until 2019 and temporarily studied at the National Institute of Polar Research and Thomas Hunt Morgan School of Biological Sciences, University of Kentucky, as a visiting scholar. He was an associate editor of the Journal of the Marine Acoustic Society of Japan, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Journal of Ethology, and committee member of marine environmental assessment organized by the Ministry of the Environment, NEDO, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.  To register for this online lecture, please click here.