Introducing Dr. Daisuke Koyabu Associate Professor in Comparative Anatomy 賽馬會動物醫學及生命科學院 I 2020 春季
Dr. Daisuke Koyabu was born and grew up in Japan, although he also lived in the US for four years in Chicago and Cincinnati while as a child. He studied in Kyoto University, Japan and University of California, Berkeley for his bachelor’s degree and then received his PhD in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tokyo. He had postdoctoral training at the Palaeontolological Museum, University of Zurich in Switzerland. Then, he was appointed as a Research Assistant Professor at University of Tokyo, then a tenured Associate Professor at Musashino Art University. As an art lover himself, he very much enjoyed teaching comparative anatomy to and interacting with art-major students at Musashino, which is one of the leading art schools in the world. You may think anatomy is a basic subject in medical field, but it is also a very important subject for those working in the field of painting, sculpture,
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