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Hitomi Kumagai, PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor
Nihon University
Fujisawa-Shi, Kanagawa, Japan

Hitomi Kumagai is a full Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Life Science, College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University, Japan. She earned her Master's Degree in Food and Nutrition at Ochanomizu University and her Doctor's Degree in Agricultural Chemistry at the University of Tokyo. She joined the faculty at Nihon University after finishing the doctor’s course. She spent a year from March of 2000 at Nottingham University, UK as an Overseas Researcher. She received “The Award of Japanese Society for Food Science and Technology” in 2016 as the fourth female recipient out of 60. She is a Member of Science Council of Japan serving as a Chair of the Committee of Agricultural and Biological Chemistry, the Committee of IUNS, and the Committee of Gender Diversity in Life Science. She is also an Executive Board of IUFoST-Japan and IFT Japan Section. She wrote 23 book chapters and published about 120 papers in the peer-reviewed journals. Her current research interests are functions of food proteins and flavor-related compounds.

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