Hideo Iwasaki

Biologist and artist. Director of metaPhorest (bioaesthetics platform), Professor, Waseda University. He is interested in the complicated relationship among scientific, philosophical, cultural, historical and aesthetic views of life. In 2007 he founded metaPhorest, an interdisciplinary art/science platform, where both artists and biologists share space for science and art simultaneously. He has also studied molecular microbiology and chronobiology, and is a co-founder of the Japanese synthetic biology society (Japanese Society for Cell Synthesis Research). He has received the Excellent Award of the Japan Media Art Festival, Research Awards from Japanese Chronobiology Society and Japanese Society for Microbial Genomics, etc.