HOMEAssistant Professor Tomonori Hoshi

Faculty

Assistant Professor Tomonori Hoshi

Speciality / Research theme / Keywords
Medical entomology (Mosquitoes and Ticks), 3D-printing technology, Drone
Supervision
Masters ProgrammeDoctoral Programme

Qualifications

PhD (Medicine), MPH (International Public Health), BSc (Agriculture)

Personal/Word Web page addresses

https://scholar.google.co.jp/citations?user=S1eHtSIAAAAJ&hl=ja https://researchmap.jp/TomonoriHoshi https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4569-4600

ResearchGate or Linked-in account Link

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tomonori_Hoshi2 https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomonori-hoshi-6aa103146

Affiliation(s)

Department of Eco-epidemiology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University

Background

Work History May 2018 – current, Assistant Professor, Department of Eco-epidemiology, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan. Oct 2017 – Apr 2018, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health Oct 2016 – Sep 2017, Project Researcher at Nagasaki University, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Department of Eco-epimideology May 2016 – Sep 2016, Project Researcher at Nagasaki University, Center for International Collaborative Research Education Apr 2012 – Mar 2016, PhD, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan Apr 2010 – Mar 2012, MPH, School of international health development, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan Apr 2004 – Mar 2009, BSc, Subtropical zoology, The University of Ryukyus in Okinawa, Japan Apr 2001 – Mar 2004, Kyoto municipal Horikawa high school, Academic Inquiry on Science program, Kyoto, Japan Others Mar 2020 – May 2020, Consultant, WHO COVID-19 emergency response team, WPRO. June 2018 – Jan 2019, Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine funded by Rutherford fellowship

Teaching

No lecturing for MPH and PhD students. Only in-person tutoring is given to PhD students who work for medical entomology.

Research

Mosquito and tick sampling tool development

The country/countries where you work currently

Japan (Mt. Konpira, Nagasaki), UK (RSPB Rainham Marshes), Malaysia (Sabah)

Five Key Recent Publications

  1. Hoshi T, Ishigaki E, Khongyot T, Kaneko S. Ecological overview of hard ticks (Ixodida: Ixodidae) in Nagasaki prefecture of western Japan during winter 2021-2022.Sci Rep. 2025;15(1):4114.
  2. Hoshi T, Brugman VA, Sato S, Ant T, Tojo B, Masuda G, Kaneko S, Moji K, Medlock JM & Logan JG. Field testing of a lightweight, inexpensive, and customisable 3D-printed mosquito light trap in the UK. Sci Rep. 2019; 9(1), 1–8. 
  3. 出願人 星 友矩 捕虫器. 特開 2020-48549　2020年 4月 2日付公開
  4. Hoshi T, Imanishi N, Higa Y & Chaves LF. Mosquito biodiversity patterns around urban environments in south-central Okinawa Island, Japan. J Am Mosq Control Assoc. 2014; 30(4)260–267.
  5. Hoshi T, Martin Banda P, Foster Pemba D, Sunahara T & Minakawa N. Beyond buzzing: Mosquito watching stimulates malaria bednet use – a household-based cluster-randomized controlled assessor blind educational trial. Emerg Microbes Infect. 2013; 2(10):e67.

Message

Nature is my teacher.

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