Dr. Togashi is an Assistant Professor of Marine Biology at the Marine Biosystems Research Center of Chiba University in Japan. He is also a Research Fellow with the Institute for Ethnomedicine and a Research Associate of the National Tropical Botanical Gardens in the United States. His main study area is evolutionary ecology. His current interests are the mechanisms of the evolution of anisogamy using marine green algae and theoretical approaches. He holds a Ph.D. in biology from Hokkaido University. He has received Ecological Research Award 2005. He is a winner of Nanohana Prize 2007.