Coastal Zones

Kazuhiro Kogure was graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1975 and obtained his PhD at Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo (ORI) in 1980. After spending two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow in ORI, he moved to the University of Maryland as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Professor Rita R. Colwell’s laboratory. In

1983, he moved back to ORI as an Assistant Professor in Division of Marine Microbiology, ORI. He was then promoted as Associate Professor in 1993 and then as Professor in 2001. In 2010, ORI moved to a new Kashiwa campus and then restructured as Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, the University of Tokyo

(AORI). He has been conducting research in the Center for Earth Surface System Dynamics in AORI. He has been the Director of this center since 2015. His research is on the ecology, physiology and genomics of marine microorganisms. Since the earthquake in 2011, he has been the PI of TEAMS group at AORI and conducting extensive field works in coastal areas in Tohoku region, Japan.