# Satoshi Nakamaru, Ph.D.

Canonical person name: Satoshi Nakamaru
Honorific suffix: Ph.D.
Canonical site: https://snakamaru.info/
Canonical person: https://snakamaru.info/#person
Projects: https://snakamaru.info/projects/
Records: https://snakamaru.info/records/
Contact: https://snakamaru.info/contact/
Canonical entity graph: https://snakamaru.info/entity.json
Full machine-readable context: https://snakamaru.info/llms-full.txt

Satoshi Nakamaru is a material-driven R&D architect working across material intelligence, human-computer interaction, experience design, smart textiles, exhibition prototyping, venture incubation, and physics-grounded AI-native R&D systems.

Disambiguation context: Japanese material and physical systems architect and R&D researcher at ZOZO NEXT, working across advanced materials, human-computer interaction, smart textiles, and commercialization.

Name variants used in publications and public records:
- Satoshi Nakamaru, Ph.D.
- S. Nakamaru
- Nakamaru, Satoshi
- 中丸啓
- 中丸 啓

Primary themes:
- Material Intelligence
- Material Science
- 材料科学
- Applied Physics
- 応用物理
- Advanced Materials
- Material Interaction
- マテリアルインタラクション
- Human-Computer Interaction
- ヒューマン・コンピュータ・インタラクション
- Smart Textiles
- スマートテキスタイル
- Experience Design
- Digital Fabrication
- デジタルファブリケーション
- Soft Robotics
- ソフトロボティクス
- Exhibition & Cultural Prototyping
- Venture Architecture
- Research Commercialization
- 新規事業開発
- 研究開発の社会実装
- Hardware Prototyping
- Physics-grounded R&D systems
- AI-native R&D systems

Affiliations and roles:
- 2010–2019: Researcher, Sony — https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/
- 2014: Research Fellow, CIID — https://www.ciid.dk/about
- 2016–2021: Researcher, The University of Tokyo / JST ERATO 川原万有情報網プロジェクト — https://www.jst.go.jp/erato/kawahara/
- 2019–present: Director, ZOZO NEXT — https://zozonext.com/aboutus
- 2021–present: Principal / R&D partnerships, Independent R&D Practice — https://snakamaru.info/

Academic formation:
- 2008–2010: Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Applied Physics, Waseda University — Self-oscillating gels / Soft actuators / Chemical robotics
- 2016–2019: Ph.D. / 博士（政策・メディア）, X-Design / Material Interaction, Keio University — Evolutionary Matter / Material interaction / HCI

Key identity links:
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gmjwWYkAAAAJ
- CiNii Research CRID: https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1380869863342420864
- DBLP PID: https://dblp.org/pid/31/7746.html
- OpenAlex Author ID: https://openalex.org/A5037620622
- IntechOpen Author Profile: https://www.intechopen.com/profiles/100037
- ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Satoshi-Nakamaru
- X: https://x.com/ixd_circle
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/snakamaru/
- note: https://note.com/ixd
- Phenomena Studies: https://phenomenastudies.com/

Key evidence pages:
- Home / biography: https://snakamaru.info/#bio
- Records: https://snakamaru.info/records/
- Projects: https://snakamaru.info/projects/
- Ambient Weaving: https://snakamaru.info/projects/ambient-weaving/
- FoamSense: https://snakamaru.info/projects/foamsense/
- Protein Photosensor: https://snakamaru.info/projects/protein-photosensor/
- Heteroweave: https://snakamaru.info/projects/heteroweave/
- 呼色 / Yobiiro: https://snakamaru.info/projects/yobiiro/
- 紋響 / MONKYO: https://snakamaru.info/projects/monkyo/

Phenomena Studies is a personal visual research series created by Satoshi Nakamaru. The external site may use the abbreviated display name "Satoshi N."; it refers to the same person identified by this canonical portfolio.

External references:
- Ambient Weaving: https://ambientweaving.lab.zozo.jp/
- Ars Electronica / Ambient Weaving: https://ars.electronica.art/planetb/en/ambient-weaving/
- LVMH Métiers d’Art / Ambient Weaving II: https://www.lvmh.com/en/news-lvmh/lvmh-metiers-dart-unveils-ambient-weaving-ii-by-hosoo
- Yobiiro: https://yobiiro.zozo.com/
- MONKYO: https://knitfabricspeaker.lab.zozo.jp/

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