Naoto Hori, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham
Boots Science Building, Room B27
University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom
Email: naoto.hori@ nottingham.ac.uk
ORCID: 0000-0003-0658-8266
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Je_SISQAAAAJ
Research Interests
- RNA folding, structures and functions
- Assembly of RNA-protein complexes
- Translation system in the cell
- Computational methods and algorithms to study biomolecules
Education
- Ph.D. in Biophysics, Kyoto University (Advisor: Prof. Shoji Takada), 2010-2013
- M.Sc. in Chemistry, Kobe University, 2006-2008
- B.Sc. in Chemistry, Kobe University, 2002-2006
Academic & Professional Experience
- Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham, 2023-
- Nottingham Research Fellow, University of Nottingham, 2020-2023
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin (Advisor: Prof. Dave Thirumalai), 2016-2020
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland (Advisor: Prof. Dave Thirumalai), 2014-2015
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Kyoto University (Advisor: Prof. Shoji Takada), 2013
- JSPS Doctoral Research Fellow, 2010-2013
- Research Associate, Kyoto University, 2009-2010
- Software Engineer, Kozo Keikaku Engineering Inc., 2008-2009
Grants, Honours and Awards
- 2022-2026, Funding from PRESTO research program, Japan Science and Technology Agency
- 2020-2023, Nottingham Research Fellowship, University of Nottingham
- 2017, Education Committee Travel Award, Biophysical Society USA
- 2010-2013, Research Fellowship for Young Scientist, Japan Society for Promotion of Science
- 2010-2013, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows
Service
- Journal Reviewer
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Nature Communications, Biophysical Journal, Journal of Physical Chemistry B,
RNA, Scientific Reports, Journal of Molecular Modeling, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal,
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, Heliyon, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
- Topic editor in Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
- Biophysics Summer School (Kyoto, Japan 2011) organiser
- The 9th Annual CCPBioSim Conference (Leeds, UK 2023) organiser