CURRICULUM VITAE Akira KAGAWA, Ph.D

CURRICULUM VITAE
Akira KAGAWA, Ph.D
Senior Researcher (Permanent Position)
Wood Anatomy and Quality Laboratory
Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute
Date of Birth 23 March 1973
Sex
Male
Marital Status Single
Nationality Japanese
Address
1, Matsuno-sato, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8687 Japan.
Phone/Fax +81-29-873-3211 / +81-29-874-3720
E-mail:
akagawa@ffpri.affrc.go.jp
EDUCATION
September 2006
March 1998
March 1996
Ph.D. (Earth Environmental Science) Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
M.S. (Agricultural science) Kyoto University
B.Sc. (Agricultural science) Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE
September 2008 – Present
May 2007- August 2008
December 2007
April 1999 to November 2007
April 1998 to March 1999
April 1996 to March 1998
Senior Researcher at Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba,
Japan.
Alexander von Humboldt fellow at ICG-V Forschungszentrum Juelich,
Germany.
Senior Researcher at Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba,
Japan.
Researcher at Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba,
Japan.
Ph.D candidate at Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University.
Masters course student at Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto University.
SCIENTIFIC EXPERTISE
Isotope Dendroclimatology, Dendrochemistry, Wood Anatomy
LANGUAGES
Fluent and working knowledge of Japanese and English (TOEIC score: 980 out of 990, STEP test: 1 st degree);

able to understand a little German.
MEMBERSHIPS
International Association of Wood Anatomists, Japan Wood Research Society, Ecological Society of Japan
PUBLICATIONS
1. Kagawa, A., Sugimoto, A. and Maximov, T.C. (2006): Seasonal course of
translocation, storage, and remobilization of
13 C pulse-labeled
photoassimilate in naturally growing Larix gmelinii saplings. New
Phytologist 171, 793-804.
2. Kagawa, A., Sugimoto, A., and Maximov, T.C. (2006): 13 CO 2 pulse-labelling
of photoassimilates reveals carbon allocation within and between tree
rings. Plant, Cell and Environment 29, 1571-1584.
3. Kagawa, A., Sugimoto, A., Yamashita, K. and Abe, H. (2005): Temporal
photosynthetic carbon isotope signatures revealed in a tree ring through
13 CO 2 pulse-labelling. Plant, Cell & Environment 28, 906-915.
4. Kagawa, A., Naito, D., Sugimoto, A. and Maximov, T. C. (2003): Effects of
spatial and temporal variability in soil moisture on widths and δ 13 C values
of eastern Siberian tree rings. Journal of Geophysical Research 108(D16),
61-68.
5. Kagawa, A., Aoki, T., Okada, N. and Katayama, Y. (2002): Tree-ring
strontium-90 and cesium-137 as potential indicators of radioactive pollution.
Journal of Environmental Quality 31, 2001-2007.
6. Kagawa, A., Naito, D. and Sugimoto, A. (2001): Relationships between
δ 13 C and width of larch and pine tree rings. Activity report of GAME-Siberia
26, 33-34.
(as co-author)
7. Bellis, D.J., Satake, K. and Kagawa, A. (2005): Chronological trends in
trace metals recorded by a tree bark pocket in Yakushima Island, Japan.
Journal of Environmental Monitoring 7(4), 384-387.
8. Abe, H., Nakai, T., Utsumi, Y. and Kagawa, A. (2003): Temporal water
deficit and wood formation in Cryptomeria japonica. Tree Physiology 23,
859-863.
9. Aoki, T., Katayama, Y., Kagawa, A., Koh, S. and Yoshida, K. (1998):
Measurement of trace elements in tree rings using the PIXE method.

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B-Beam
Interactions with Materials and Atoms 138, 919-922.
10. Aoki, T., N. Okada, K. Yoshida, S. Koh, Kagawa, A. and Y. Katayama.
(1998): Measurement of injected strontium in the stem of a Japanese
cedar (Cryptomeria japonica D.Don) using PIXE. International Journal of
PIXE 8, 139-145.