Bio
Mika Ishigaki is an assistant professor in Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Shimane University, Japan. She was selected as an Excellent Young Researcher in 2018 by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. Ishigaki obtained Ph.D. in the field of elementary particle physics in 2006, and her present research has been active in the application of Raman and near-infrared spectroscopies to biology. She is especially interested in the development of new methods to evaluate the life activity using vibrational spectroscopies from the point of water structure.