Professor Osamu Sakura

Professor of Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at the University of Tokyo, and PI of the Research Project for Science, Technology and Society at the Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP), RIKEN

Dr Osamu Sakura is Professor of Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at the University of Tokyo, and PI of the Research Project for Science, Technology and Society at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP), Japan. His main interests are science and technology studies including social aspects of AI and robotics, the comparative history of the reception of evolutionary theory, and the cultural effects on the history of science and technology in Japan. He was also engaged in the relationship between experts and local people in the evacuation areas of Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Having received a Ph.D. from Kyoto University, Japan, in Primatology and Behavioral Ecology, he taught at Yokohama National University (1993-2000) and worked as visiting scholar at the University of Freiburg (1995-96) before moving to his current position in 2000. He has published several journal papers and books.