Toshifumi Minamoto
Dr. Toshifumi Minamoto is a professor at the Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University, and currently serves as the president of the eDNA Society. He has been actively involved in basic research on eDNA technology since the dawn of eDNA research of macro-organisms and has published many milestone studies. In recent years, he has focused on efforts to extract information on the behavior and physiology of organisms beyond presence-absence from eDNA. His hobby is volleyball, and he is still an active player and the head coach of the Kobe University volleyball team.