PhD /Professor
Dept. of Chemistry and Life Science, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University
FUJISAWA, Kanagawa, Japan
Hitomi Kumagai is a full Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Life Science, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Japan. She earned her Master's Degree in Food and Nutrition at Ochanomizu University and her Doctor's Degree in Agricultural Chemistry at the University of Tokyo. She joined the faculty at Nihon University after finishing the doctor’s course. She spent a year from March of 2000 at Nottingham University, UK as an Overseas Researcher. She received “The Award of Japanese Society for Food Science and Technology” in 2016 as the fourth female recipient out of 60. She is a Member of Science Council of Japan and the Chair of Committee of Agricultural and Biological Chemistry as well as a member of an Executive Board of IUFoST-Japan. She is also the Chair of the Japan Inter-society Liaison Association Committee for Promoting Equal Participation of Men and Women in Science and Engineering that includes about 100 STEM academic societies in Japan. She wrote 19 book chapters and published 105 papers in the peer-reviewed journals. Her current research interests are functions of food proteins and flavor-related compounds.
Monday, June 29, 2020
8:25 AM – 8:30 AM CDT
Monday, June 29, 2020
8:55 AM – 9:20 AM CDT