Dr. Michika Onoda is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He received a Ph. D. degree from faculty of Materials Engineering, the University of Tokyo (Top Graduate, President’s Award). His career includes JSPS Research Fellow DC1 (2016), Visiting Researcher at University of Minnesota (2017), JSPS Superlative Postdoctoral Fellow at Nagoya University (2019 to present), and Postdoctoral Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2019 to present).

The target of his research is to create novel functional polymeric materials, especially in the field of the polymer gel. In his career, he won more than eighteen awards at national and international conferences including the University of Tokyo President’s Award for the outstanding research about artificial amoeba utilizing polymeric fluids. In addition to his research, he established science media and works as a writer collaborating with 2Dfacto, Inc.