Takuma Morimoto

Takuma Morimoto is a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow and Junior Research Fellow at Pembroke College within the University of Oxford's Department of Experimental Psychology. His research focuses on color constancy, visual perception, and the mechanisms underlying perceptual stability using psychophysics and machine learning. He holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford and a Master of Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Key academic roles include Postdoctoral Fellow (2025–present), Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow (2020–2025), and Junior Research Fellow (2020–2025). He has held visiting roles at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen and the University of Minho. His research integrates environmental lighting analysis, material reflectance datasets, and neural network modeling to explore how humans perceive surface properties under varying conditions.

Notable contributions include studies on spectral reflectance datasets, human gloss perception modeling, and color constancy mechanisms. His work frequently examines real-world lighting environments and their impact on visual discrimination. Morimoto’s research has been supported by the Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship and has led to collaborations with institutions globally.

He leads the Perception Lab at Oxford and maintains active involvement in hyperspectral environmental measurements and interdisciplinary approaches to color vision. His publications span journals like Scientific Data, Behav Brain Sci, and Optics Express, reflecting his focus on bridging computational methods with perceptual neuroscience.