Personal Details

• Name: Daisuke Takagi
• Date of birth: 14 August 1984
• Nationality: Japanese
• Languages:
  English (fluent)
  Japanese (fluent)
  French (fluent)
  Spanish (intermediate)
  Chinese Mandarin (basic)

Education

• 2007-2010 King's College, University of Cambridge (UK)
• 2003-2007 Peterhouse, University of Cambridge (UK)
• 2002-2003 Imperial College London (UK)
• 1998-2002 La Châtaigneraie, International School of Geneva (Switzerland)
• 1992-1998 Collège du Léman (Switzerland)
• 1991-1994 Ecole Japonaise complémentaire de Genève (Switzerland)
• 1991-1992 Ecole des Crêts (Switzerland)
• 1991 Yoga Elementary School (Japan)
• 1988-1991 Yayoi Kindergarten (Japan)
• 1986-1988 Le Chat Botté (Switzerland)
• 1984 Hirota Sanfujinka (Japan)

Work experience

• Summer 2009 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole (US)
• Summer 2006, 2007 Undergraduate researcher, Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, Cambridge (UK)
• Summer 2005 Tutor of IB mathematics and physics, International School of Geneva, La Chataigneraie (Switzerland)
• Summer 2005 Intern in the Structured Finance Division, Barclays Capital, London (UK)
• Summer 2004 Intern in the Circuit Devices Business Group, TDK, Ichikawa (Japan)
• Summer 2003 Part-timer working at a concert and in the Hanshin Koshien stadium, Star-being, Osaka (Japan)
• 2000-2002 Farmer, Ferme Courtois, Versoix (Switzerland)

Extra-curricular activities

I currently enjoy swimming, playing tennis and squash. I also play go, a popular board game. Below is a selected list of my activities in the past.

• 2006-2007 Elected President of Toiro-kai, an interdisciplinary forum for Japanese academics in Cambridge
• 2005-2006 Elected President of Amals, a governing body for financing sport clubs and societies of Peterhouse
• 2003-2006 Played the flute and performed in the Peterhouse Chamber Orchestra
• 2003-2005 Rowed for Peterhouse Boat Club, earned 1st Mays colour and won blades in Bumps Races
• 1994-2000 Played football for USTS, a competitive club in Switzerland

Family

• Yo Takagi (father) Assistant Director-General, World Intellectual Property Organisation
• Keiko Takagi (mother) Maths tutor, International School of Geneva
• Atsushi Takagi (brother) Undergraduate student of physics, Imperial College London