Post-doctoral Research Fellowships
"The evolution and maintenance of Polymorphism in reproductive strategies in squid"
Japan Society of Promortion for Sciences (JSPS), 2010-2013

EU Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowships (IIF)
"How do post-copulatory male-male and male-female interactions shape the evolution of mating strategies? A test using two species of squid"
European Commission, 2008-2010

Unitas Malacologica Travel Grant
World Congress of Malacology, July 2007

Daiwa Foundation Small-Grant
Project Leader: Dr Paul Shaw (Royal Holloway University of London, UK)
"Reproductive Biology of Japanese Spear Squid Loligo bleekeri: a field test, using SCUBA and DNA fingerprinting methods, of the mating strategies used by individuals and genetic diversity of offspring"
The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, 2007

Grants-In-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
"Mating-fertilization process and sexual size dimorphism in coastal and oceanic squids"
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT), 2006-2008

Oral Presentation Student Award
The International Workshop and Symposium of Cephalopod International Advisory Council (CIAC), February 2006