Nobuaki Mizumoto (Nobu; 水元 惟暁) is an Assistant Professor in Insect Ecology in the Department of Entomology & Plant Pathology at Auburn University. He studies how complex collective behavior and social organization arise and evolve in termites. His research focuses on mate pairing and coordinated motion, collective nest construction, termite social evolution, and termite biodiversity.
His laboratory combines field natural history, behavioral experiments, automated video tracking, comparative phylogenetic analysis, mathematical modeling, and simulation. Before joining Auburn in 2024, he conducted research at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Arizona State University, and Kyoto University. He loves onion rings.
Career
- 2024-present: Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University
- 2023: Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
- 2020-2023: JSPS Research Fellow CPD, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
- 2020: JSPS Research Fellow SPD, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
- 2018-2020: JSPS Overseas Research Fellow, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
- 2015-2018: JSPS Research Fellow DC1, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Education:
- 2018 Ph.D. Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
- 2015 MS Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
- 2013 BS Department of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Selected awards
- 2024 Christopher Barnard Award, Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
- 2021 37th Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists
- 2021 Young Scholar Award, Ecological Society of Japan
- 2020 Japan Ethological Society Award
- 2020 Young Scientist Initiative Award, Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan
- 2018 Ikushi Prize, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Search for Nobuaki Mizumoto's papers on the Publications page