Currently an Assistant Professor at Sophia University (2024~ present); Previously was Postdoc Researcher, Alliance for Research on North Africa, University of Tsukuba (2011-2014), Assistant Professor (2014-2018) then Associate Professor at the University of Tsukuba (2018-2022); Recently volunteered as Philippine’s Dept of Science and Technology’s Philippine Council for Health and Research Development (DOST-PCHRD) “Balik Scientist” for Functional Food Research (2022-2024); Conducted short studies abroad included being a Research Fellow under the Erasmus Mundus Teaching Mobility Program at the University of Montpellier in 2016 and as a Visiting Researcher at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of Oxford in 2017.

Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences, University of Tsukuba

Master of Science in Microbiology (Univ. of the Philippines Los Baños)

Functional Food, Aging, Natural Products, Bioprospecting

Phenotype switching and cell differentiation induction using natural products; Functional food for prevention of cancer and diabetes; Skin pigmentation