Shinichi Furuya

Shinichi Furuya is Research Director of Tokyo Research at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., and holds a position as a guest professor at Institute for Music Physiology and Musician’s Medicine at Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media. He studied mechanical engineering (BSc), biomechanics and exercise physiology (MS), and motor neuroscience (PhD) at Osaka University, Japan. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Kwansei Gakuin University (Japan), University of Minnesota (USA), and Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media (Germany). He received Postdoctoral Fellowship at Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH), Heisenberg Fellowship at Germany Research Foundation (DFG), and postdoctoral fellowship at Japan Society for Promoting Science (JSPS). He received Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers（LEADER）from MEXT. He is also a pianist with several prizes at domestic professional piano competitions in Japan.