====== Profile ======

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===== Kota Miura, Ph.D. =====

==== Academic Status ====

  * Director, Bioimage Analysis & Research (http://wiki.cmci.info)
  * Visiting Professor, the Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Japan 
  * Vice-Chair, The Network of Bioimage Analysts ([[http://neubias.org|NEUBIAS]])  
  * Editorial Board, [[https://f1000research.com/NEUBIAS|The F1000 NEUBIAS Gateway]]  
  * Scientific Advisory Board, [[https://focalplane.biologists.com/scientific-advisory-board/|The Focal Plane, The Company of Biologists]] 
  * Advisory Board Member, Max Planck Bioimaging, Germany
  * External Advisory Board Member, Center for Open Bioimage Analysis([[https://openbioimageanalysis.org/|COBA]]), NIH, USA 

==== Education and experiences ====


  * M.Sc., The faculty of science, The University of Osaka (Physiology, 1995)
  * Ph.D., LMU (Zoological Institute, University of Munich, 2001)
  * 2001 - 2014, EMBL Heidelberg (Postdoc and Staff Scientist)
  * 2014 - 2016, The National Institutes of Basic Science, Japan (Associate Professor, EU Branch Office)
  * 2016 - Director, Bioimage Analysis & Research (Heidelberg Germany & Okayama Japan), Visiting Researcher, Nikon Imaging Center, University of Heidelberg


==== Books ====

  * [[https://bit.ly/bias-wiley| Bioimage Data Analysis, Ed. Kota Miura (2016), Wiley-VCH]]
    * Free PDF downloadable from the above site. 
  * [[https://bit.ly/bias-springer|Bioimage Data Analysis Workflows, Ed. Kota Miura & Natasa Sladoje (2019), Springer]]
    * Free PDF downloadable from the above site.
  * [[https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-76394-7|Bioimage Data Analysis Workflows ‒ Advanced Components and Methods, Ed. Kota Miura & Natasa Sladoje (2022), Springer]]
    * Free PDF downloadable from the above site.

==== Books in Japanese ====
  * [[https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4780909368|ImageJではじめる生物画像解析, Miura & Tsukada, 2016, Gakken-Shujyun]] 
    * Texts in Japanese
  * [[https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4815730121/|デジタル細胞生物学, Translation, Miura & Tsukada, 2021, Medical Science International]] 
    * Texts in Japanese
  * [[https://www.yodosha.co.jp/yodobook/book/9784758122801/|型で実践する生物画像解析, Miura & Tsukada, 2025, Yodosha]] 
==== URLs ====


  * Github: [[https://github.com/miura]]
  * Bluesky: [[https://bsky.app/profile/kbias.bsky.social]]
  * Bluesky (Japanese):[[https://bsky.app/profile/kotapub.bsky.social]]
  * Twitter: [[https://twitter.com/cmci_]]
  * Twitter: (Japanese) [[https://twitter.com/kotapub]]
  * LinkedIn: [[https://www.linkedin.com/in/kota-miura-30b8676/]]