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Last Update: August 02, 2016 Tetsuro Matsuzawa Current Position Distinguished Professor, Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study, with Joint Appointment as Professor, Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University Coordinator, Leading Graduate Program in Primatology and Wildlife Science, Kyoto University Founding Director, Center for International Collaboration and Advanced Studies, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University President, the International Primatological Society General Director, Japan Monkey Centre President, Academic Alpine Club of Kyoto Editor-in-chief, PRIMATES Editorial Board, The Royal Society, Phlosophical Transaction B Chair, Scientific Program of International Congress of Psychology 2016 Educational and Professional History Major: Primatology, especially in establishing Comparative Cognitive Science April 2016- Distinguished Professor, Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study,with Joint Appointment as Professor, Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University December 1976 - March 2016. Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University (1976: Assistant Professor, 1987: Associate Professor, 1993: Full Professor, 2006-2012: Director) 1989. Obtained Ph. D Degree in Science, Kyoto University March 1976. Obtained Master Degree in psychology, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University March 1974. Graduated from Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University October 15, 1950. Born in Japan (Nationality: Japanese) Research Summary Matsuzawa has been studying chimpanzee both in the laboratory and in thewild. The laboratory work is known as “Ai-project in the Primate ResearchInstitute of Kyoto University since 1976: a female chimpanzee named Ailearned to use Arabic numerals to represent the number (Matsuzawa, 1985,NATURE). The field work has been carried out in Bossou-Nimba, Guinea,since 1986, focusing on the tool use in the wild. Matsuzawa tries tosynthesize the field and the lab work to understand the min