Affiliation: National Defense Medical College Research Institute, National Defense Medical College, Division of Bioinformation and Therapeutic Systems

Satoko Kawauchi has been an Associate Professor at the Division of Bioinformation and Therapeutic Systems of the National Defense Medical College (NDMC) Research Institute since 2020. She received her BSc and MSc degrees in electrical engineering from Keio University, Japan, in 1996 and 1998, respectively. In her career at NDMC, she received a PhD in Medical Science from Kyorin University in 2005 and a PhD in Engineering from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in 2019. Her research interests cover a variety of topics in defense medicine applications of lasers and optics, including diffuse optical spectroscopy for central nervous system (CNS) diseases, including traumatic brain injury, photobiomodulation for CNS, optical detection of vision anomaly and loss of consciousness by G-force of fighter pilot, antimicrobial photodynamic therapy, and development of blast injury animal models based on a laser-induced shock wave (LISW).