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Yasuhiro Mitani, Professor
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The Geosphere Environmental Systems Engineering Lab studies the environment of the geosphere, the space extending from the ground surface where people live down into the subsurface. People have developed society by exploiting and using the geosphere, but in the process problems such as land subsidence, changes in the groundwater environment, soil contamination, and sediment disasters have also arisen. Geosphere environmental problems are hard to detect in their early signs and often appear only after a long time, so appropriate evaluation and monitoring are needed at every stage from planning to maintenance. Building on geotechnical and rock engineering, the lab explores technologies for development and conservation in harmony with the environment, making use of information technologies such as satellite remote sensing, 3D data, and GIS.
Shinichiro Shinichiro, Professor
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The Environmental Fluid Dynamics Lab studies water environment problems that occur in natural water bodies such as seas, rivers, and lakes. Water is essential not only to humans but to all living things in nature, yet population growth and global warming are predicted to cause a shortage of good-quality water resources. At the same time, warming is said to intensify changes in rainfall and strengthen tropical cyclones, raising concern about increasing flood damage. Through developing technologies to conserve and restore the water environment, clarifying the mechanisms by which the water environment deteriorates, and investigating disasters such as floods, the lab searches for ways to achieve both disaster prevention and environmental conservation.
Takahiro Kuba, Professor
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The Urban Environmental Engineering Lab conducts research on what is generally called water environment engineering. The water environment consists of diverse elements such as water quality, water quantity, organisms, bottom sediment, waterfronts, and landscape, and all of these need to be conserved as a whole. To that end, the lab develops integrated watershed water management methods that take a bird's-eye view of the water environment and water cycle, and it also examines the role of local water facilities such as sewage treatment plants. Using a range of technologies and systems for environmental purification, ecosystem conservation, comprehensive water management, and wastewater treatment, the lab works on comprehensively conserving the water environment.
Shunsuke Managi, Professor
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The Urban and Transportation Engineering Lab studies environmental problems such as climate change, global issues such as energy and the link between development and poverty, and urban problems such as soaring housing prices and traffic congestion. Its subjects are the complex problems cities face, including aging and population decline, health and welfare, education, disasters, and the design of transportation systems. Using a multifaceted, interdisciplinary approach that draws on urban engineering, transportation engineering, and economics, the lab tackles these problems through both theory and empirical work, and also makes realistic, effective policy recommendations. The lab's mission is to improve citizens' lives through new infrastructure and technology and to make cities run better.
Akihito Ozaki, Professor
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The Healthy Building Environment Lab theoretically analyzes the movement of heat, mass, and air in cities and buildings, and elucidates the physical phenomena of the built environment. Building on building physics, the lab works on the design of living environments that excel in energy saving, durability, and well-being, and on the design of building functions that use advanced equipment systems and renewable energy. Put simply, the lab uses numerical simulation techniques to scientifically design buildings that are comfortable to live in and kind to the global environment. Because the urban and building environment consists of a human system, a building system, and an equipment system, it is necessary to understand people's physiological and psychological needs, design heat, light, and air passively, and then control them actively with equipment. The topics covered include passive systems and highly efficient equipment systems for energy saving, the design of living environments and functions in advanced buildings, temperature and humidity control and condensation prevention technologies for highly durable buildings, dynamic prediction and evaluation of the building environment based on coupled analysis of heat, mass, and air movement, and prediction of future energy consumption of cities and buildings and measures against global warming. The lab also continues its research on developing next-generation, high-performance buildings that combine insulation, heat shielding, airtightness, ventilation, heat collection, heat rejection, heat storage, and humidity control, and on numerically showing how facade design affects a building's thermal environment. The lab's Assistant Professor analyzes the thermal environment of buildings using future weather data that incorporates climate change due to global warming, and is conducting research that measures the quality of architecture from a well-being perspective, including factors such as greenery, biodiversity, sustainable living, and community. Another pillar of the lab is developing a thermal environment simulation model using urban information from PLATEAU, the 3D city data, and developing and implementing ThermalOne, a building thermal environment simulation software the lab has nurtured.
Daisuke Sumiyoshi, Professor
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The Sustainable Building Energy Lab conducts research on reducing the energy consumed in buildings. The building sector accounts for one third of society's total energy consumption, so cutting it is an important theme for achieving a decarbonized society. In its urban-scale research, the lab forecasts the future energy consumption of buildings and, by combining supply equipment such as solar power generation, storage batteries, and hydrogen fuel cells, sketches a vision of future urban energy. In its research on human behavior, the lab conducts repeated experiments to verify how information delivered through smartphone apps and IoT tools can steer people's behavior toward energy saving.
Yutaka Ookouchi, Professor
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The Theoretical Physics of Particle Systems Lab studies theoretical physics covering elementary particles, atomic nuclei, and the universe. The lab pursues research from several perspectives: theoretical particle physics (field theory and superstring theory), theoretical nuclear physics, and cosmological theory. It has become clear that the universe has not stood still, but has reached its present form through repeated, dramatic change. From a theoretical standpoint, the lab takes on challenges such as the "invisible parts" of the universe (dark matter and dark energy). The lab does not assign fourth-year undergraduates for their special research project (it accepts students from the graduate level). Professor Yutaka Ookouchi is also listed as a faculty member of the School of Interdisciplinary Science and Innovation.
Tomotsugu Wakasa, Professor
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The Experimental Nuclear Physics Lab creates atomic nuclei with accelerators and studies their properties experimentally. An atomic nucleus is a many-body system of protons and neutrons, and the nature of the strong force (nuclear force) that binds them together has still not been fully understood, even more than 100 years after the discovery of the nucleus. Pursuing the question "How did our universe come to be?" from the side of atomic nuclei, the lab investigates the synthesis of new elements and the processes by which elements are born in the universe. Experiments are carried out at Kyushu University's accelerator and also at off-campus accelerator facilities such as RIKEN.
Kenji Ono, Professor
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The Computational Science Lab studies the foundational technologies for solving phenomena on computers. As the foundations of computational science that cut across fields, it covers three areas: modeling, which turns phenomena into mathematical equations; parallel algorithms, which split large computations up to solve them quickly; and high-precision computing, which accounts for even numerical errors. All three faculty members are primarily affiliated with the Research Institute for Information Technology, where they are also responsible for the operation, design, and construction of supercomputers and the development of numerical computing libraries that run on them. It is a lab placed in the Information Science course of the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, and in the Department of Information Science and Technology, Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering.
Ken Onda, Professor
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The Spectroscopic Analytical Chemistry Lab uses ultrashort-pulse lasers that flash for just one trillionth of a second to observe molecules in real time as they are changing. Chemistry is the study of how substances change, but the changes are extremely fast, so researchers usually examine a reaction precisely before and after it occurs and infer what happens in between. The lab therefore develops its own range of time-resolved spectroscopy instruments, and uses them to reveal at the molecular level what happens in functional materials such as those for artificial photosynthesis, photocatalysis, and organic electronics. In recent years the lab has also set up organic synthesis facilities, so it can now work from the making of new materials onward.
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