Kiyoshi Furusawa is the Japan Improbable Research / Ig Nobel Prizes Director.
Kiyoshi Furusawa is a Japanese science communicator and a specially appointed associate professor at Rikkyo University.
After studying environmental life sciences and environmental philosophy at university, he worked as a science teacher at a Japanese high school, and as a DJ and music writer.
He lived in the Republic of Malawi, Africa, where he taught science at secondary schools and founded a science theatrical group, called PICO factory, that toured Malawi.
Then he worked as a science communicator at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) and has since been involved in the training of science communicators at universities.
Kiyoshi has organised many Ig Nobel Prize events and talk shows in Japan.
His nickname is “k.” or “Ig OJISAN (Uncle Ig).
Kiyoshi Furusawa, Japan Improbable Research / Ig Nobel Prizes Director
Tokyo, Japan
Email: kycfrsw0621 AT gmail.com