Chigusa Kobayashi

Chigusa Kobayashi is a technical scientist at the software development technology unit, RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), Japan. She is also a technical scientist at the computational biophysics research team, R-CCS. 

She received the B.Sc. degree in 1996 from the Chemistry department, Faculty of Science, Nagoya University, M.Sc. in 1998 from Graduate school of Science in Nagoya University, D. Sc. in 2000 from Graduate school of Science in Nagoya University.

She has worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Nagoya University, Japan (2001), University of California, San Diego, USA (2001-2003), Kobe University, Japan (2003-2006), Institute for Molecular Science, Japan (2006-2011), as a contract researcher at RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Japan (2011-2013), and as a research scientist at R-CCS (2013-2020). She has been in her current position since 2020. 

Her research interests include computer simulations of biological systems like membrane proteins and soluble proteins. She has investigated structural changes of protein and developed models and methods to understand it. 

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