
Takuya Takahashi, Dr.
Postdoc
Geographic Information Systems
Room number: Y25 J 86takuya.takahashi@geo.uzh.ch
CV
2023 – present | University of Zurich Postdoc in Geographic Information Science |
2022 - 2023 | Meiji University, Postdoc |
2021 - 2022 | JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Postdoctoral Fellow |
2020 - 2021 | JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Doctoral Fellow |
March 2021 | PhD in biology Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan. M.S. in biology. |
March 2018 | M.S. in biology Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan. |
March 2016 | B.S. in biology Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, the University of Tokyo, Japan. |
Research Interest
My research is focused on the geographical distribution of cultural traits, languages and dialects in particular.
I am working on
- developing mathematical or statistical models representing the spatial evolution of dialects/languages, and
- applying phylogenetic methods to linguistic data.
Publications
- Takahashi T, Ihara Y, 2023. Spatial evolution of human cultures inferred through Bayesian phylogenetic analysis. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 20, 20220543.
- Takahashi T, Ihara Y. 2022. Application of a Markovian ancestral model to the temporal and spatial dynamics of cultural evolution on a population network. Theoretical Population Biology 143, 14-29.
- Takahashi T, Ihara Y. 2020. Quantifying the spatial pattern of dialect words spreading from a central population. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 17, 20200335.
- Takahashi T, Ihara Y. 2019. Cultural and evolutionary dynamics with best-of-k learning when payoffs are uncertain. Theoretical Population Biology 128, 27-38.
- Takahashi T, Tajima F. 2017. The amount of DNA polymorphism when population size changes linearly. Genes & Genetic Systems 92, 1, 55-57.
Conference Presentations
- Takahashi T, Onohara A, Ihara Y. Inferring the temporal and spatial evolution of accent systems in Japanese dialects: a phylogeographic approach. JCoLE (Joint Conference on Language Evolution), Kanazawa, 5-8 September 2022.
- Onohara A, Takahashi T, Ihara Y. Conditions for Japanese lexical-pitch accents to change from a complex to a simpler state. EHBEA (European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association) Conference, Leipzig (online), 19-22 April 2022.
- Takahashi T, Onohara A, Ihara Y. Bayesian analysis of human dialects in the presence of horizontal transmission: application of coalescent and phylogenic models. Biology22, Basel, 17-18 February 2022.
- Takahashi T, Ihara Y, Simulating the diffusion of Japanese dialects through a network model. Cultural Evolution Society Conference 2021, Sapporo (online), 9-11 June 2021.
- Takahashi T, Ihara Y. Spatial evolution of Japanese dialects explained by a network model of cultural evolution. EHBEA (European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association) Conference, Krakow (online), 24-27 March 2021.