Yasushi Ogasaka has joined AMED in April 2022 as the Managing Director of the Department of International Strategy. His responsibilities include implementation of AMED’s international strategies, as well as promotion of international research funding programs.
Before joining AMED, he had worked at Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) since 2009. He had been involved in various funding programs of JST. He also served as a director of JST’s information services such as open-access journal platform (J-STAGE) and researchers database (researchmap), and during this term he was responsible for the implementation of open science policy of JST.
He received PhD in physics from Gakushuin University in 1996. His research area was High Energy Astrophysics.