HARUTAKA HATA Email: k2795502@kadai.jp CURRENT TITLE/POSITION ph. D. (Agriculture) / Research Assistant WORK EXPERIENCE 2022 (Aug.) – present Visitor researcher of National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (JSPS Overseas Research Fellow) 2019 (Apr.) - 2022 (Aug.) Center for Molecular Biodiversity Research, National Museum of Nature and Science, 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0001, Japan Research Assistant 2017 (Apr.)-2019 (Mar.) JSPS Fellowship Researcher (researching in The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University – Kagoshima, Japan) EDUCATION AND GRADUATION 2016 (Apr.) – 2019 (Mar.) The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Kagoshima University – Kagoshima, Japan PhD in Agriculture 2014 (Apr.) – 2016 (Mar.) Graduate School of Fisheries, Kagoshima University – Kagoshima, Japan M.A. in Fisheries 2010 (Apr.) – 2014 (Mar.) Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University – Kagoshima, Japan B.A. in Fisheries PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member, Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology. 2015-present. Member, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. 2020-present. Member, The Biogeographical Society of Japan. 2012-present. Member, Ichthyological Society of Japan. 2012-present. CURRENT AND PREVIOUS RESEARCH INTERESTS Taxonomy on fishes of Clupeiformes (Teleostei: Actinopterygii)