Atomi Yoriko

Born in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, in 1944. Graduated from the Department of Health and Physical Education, Faculty of Letters and Education, Ochanomizu University, in March 1967. Completed the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo, in March 1973, and received a Ph.D. in Education. Appointed Research Associate at the Faculty of Education, The University of Tokyo, in 1979; Lecturer at the College of Arts and Sciences in 1982; subsequently promoted to Associate Professor; and appointed Professor at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, in 1994. Currently Professor Emeritus at The University of Tokyo.

After mandatory retirement in 2007, she moved her base of activity from Komaba to Hongo, serving as Project Researcher at the Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science (IR3S) from 2007 to 2009, and as Project Researcher at the Radioisotope Center from 2009 to 2013. She held an endowed chair at the Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, from April 2013 to March 2023, and served as Specially Appointed Professor in the endowed chair of the Open Innovation Division, Advanced Comprehensive Research Organization, Teikyo University, from April 2023 to March 2026. Since April 2026, she has been Specially Appointed Professor at the Center for Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering (CNBE), The University of Electro-Communications (UEC) (current position).

As Director of the Cell-to-Body Dynamics Laboratory, she bridges cellular health science research on eggshell membranes with the development of Human Sustainability Wear. Her current activities aim to establish a new interdisciplinary field that enables people to "know their own system" before illness arises, and to live healthily and vigorously to the age of 120 through Body-Mind Integrative Science.

Research Focus: Reductionist research across the hierarchical levels of molecules, cells, tissues, organs, the human body, and the human being as a whole, and the creation of an integrative logic of living systems that connects these levels into a unified whole.

Selected Books

Body-Mind Integrative Science: Concepts and Methods — The αB-Crystallin Adaptation Theory Connecting Cells, Body Axis, and Energy Metabolism through Consciousness, University of Tokyo Press (2023) [academic monograph]
Living to 100: Just Seven Recumbent Exercises — Body-Mind Tuning Exercises You Can Do Lying Down (co-authored), Sakurasha (2025)
Moderate Stress Keeps People Young, Sunmark Publishing (2022)
Enhancing "Cellular Power": Extending Healthy Life Expectancy through Body-Mind Integrative Science, Ronsosha (2018)
"Knowing and Utilizing 'Life' through the Body," in Inochi-ryoku (The Power of Life), SHIP Forum, NTT Publishing (2008)
"Stress Response Proteins," in The Science of Stress and Health, Kyoritsu Shuppan (2008)
"Life Science for Women — Cells Cheer for Your Vitality" (Part I: Becoming a Radiant Body), in Kao Tsuya BOOK (ed. Kao antu Project), PHP Institute (2006)
"The Body as a Habitat for Cells, and I as Its Host — Life Science for Self-Understanding," in The University of Tokyo Adventure Course for 16-Year-Olds 1: Signs, Culture, and Life (ed. College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo), Baifukan (2005)
"Standing as a Human Being — Stretching and Gravity," in Science Council Series 6: Why the Universe and Life — Life and Humanity in the Cosmos, Japan Scientists' Association Foundation (2003)
(Editor) Q&A Series on Life and Environmental Sciences of Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Health: Skeletal Muscle and Exercise, Kyorin Shoin (2000), among others