Yu Takano was born in Osaka, Japan in 1974. He earned his Ph.D. degree in 2002 from Osaka University. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) at University of California, Los Angeles from 2002 to 2005, and a Postdoctoral Fellow of JSPS at Mie University in 2005. He was an Instructor and an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, from 2005 to 2015. Since 2015, he has been a Professor at the Graduate School of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University. His research interests include computational biophysics and biochemistry for metalloproteins using both classical and quantum chemical methodologies.
Yu Takano was born in Osaka, Japan in 1974. He earned his Ph.D. degree in 2002 from Osaka University. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) at University of California, Los Angeles from 2002 to 2005, and a Postdoctoral Fellow of JSPS at Mie University in 2005. He was an Instructor and an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, from 2005 to 2015. Since 2015, he has been a Professor at the Graduate School of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University. His research interests include computational biophysics and biochemistry for metalloproteins using both classical and quantum chemical methodologies.