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Setsuko Nakajima, Professor
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Nakajima Lab studies the history and present of cities and architecture. It investigates how infrastructure such as city blocks, streets, and waterways, the buildings constructed on them, and the natural environments surrounding and within cities were formed, and what kinds of landscapes and images they have created. The lab examines the historical process and mechanisms behind this formation from the perspectives of social and cultural background, technology, and ideas. It also works to conserve and make use of existing historic environments, linking this to community development and the regeneration of local communities.
Masahiro Maeda, Professor
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Maeda Lab studies contemporary cities and regions, focusing on how people live in each region and place, and on the forms of housing and community. The lab values in-depth fieldwork experience and aims at practical research (action research) through dialogue and collaboration with people directly involved on site, such as residents, local governments, and businesses. Students conduct research in fields in Japan and abroad, on topics such as the use of vacant houses and local communities, the resilience of small regional cities, and the connections between remote islands and cities.
Takuya Matsumoto, Associate Professor
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The Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis Lab studies psychopathology, psychoanalysis (especially the French Lacanian school), pathography, the history of psychiatry, and contemporary French thought. Students in the Faculty of Integrated Human Studies can write their graduation thesis in this lab. During the semester, the lab holds a lab seminar every week, and volunteers also run reading groups for German and French texts. The lab is open to people building their experience in clinical settings, such as physicians and psychologists, and it also offers study sessions for clinicians.
Yukiko Uchida, Professor
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The Uchida Lab studies the mutual constitution of culture and the mind, mainly using methods of experimental social psychology. The main research themes are emotions such as happiness, cognition, motivation, and interpersonal relationships. Graduate students in the lab belong to the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, where Professor Uchida serves as a cooperating faculty member. Students join this lab from graduate school.
Yoshiyuki Ueda, Associate Professor
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This lab studies the basic mechanisms that underlie everyday actions, such as picking up a cup, or finding a friend in a crowd and gauging their mood from their facial expression. Using attention, emotion, and cognition as keywords, the lab investigates how these mechanisms are achieved and acquired, and whether they influence one another. Associate Professor Ueda is primarily affiliated with the Institute for the Future of Human and Society, and also teaches graduate students in the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies (Division of Cognition, Behavior and Health Sciences). Students join this lab from graduate school.
Toshihiro Nakamura, Professor
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The Nakamura Lab studies thin films of electronic materials such as semiconductors, covering development of fabrication processes, reaction analysis, property evaluation, and device applications, based on chemistry and physics. The lab puts particular emphasis on research on "magnetic transparent conductive films" and "resistive switching non-volatile memory materials." As an approach to global environmental problems, the lab is also developing technologies that use plasma reactions to convert greenhouse gases into useful substances. Professor Nakamura's primary appointment is at the Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the lab accepts students through the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies.
Haruhiko Funahashi, Professor
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The Funahashi Fundamental Physics Lab starts from pure, simple questions about the natural sciences and aims to carry out research in fundamental physics that is broad in both its subjects and its methods. The lab has so far conducted experimental research on elementary particles, atomic nuclei, and the universe, and is now working on research in introductory science education as a new frontier. In 2025, the lab held a trial session of a draft class booklet and introduced Hypothesis-Experiment Classes at the national conference of the NSTA (The National Science Teaching Association). Professor Funahashi's primary appointment is at the Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the lab accepts students through the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies.
Yuichi Tsunoyama, Associate Professor
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The Tsunoyama Lab conducts research to find scientific evidence on how low-dose radiation affects living organisms. Centered on research on the effects of low-dose radiation, training of people with radiation risk literacy, and support for radiation learning, the lab is an interdisciplinary lab that brings knowledge of radiation science to society. The lab also supports junior high and high school students in mapping natural background radiation, provides learning support in cooperation with elementary, junior high, and high school teachers in Kyoto City, and sends students to areas in Fukushima Prefecture affected by the nuclear disaster. Associate Professor Tsunoyama's primary appointment is at the Environment, Safety and Health Organization, and the lab accepts students through the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies.
Soichiro Wakiya, Associate Professor
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This lab studies how to preserve the diverse materials that make up cultural properties, such as stone, soil, metal, and wood, over the long term. Its listed research keywords are in situ preservation of archaeological sites, salt weathering, wet-dry cycle weathering, environmental control, decorated tumuli, cliff-carved Buddhas (magaibutsu), ground-based archaeological features, and heat and moisture transfer. The lab is a collaborative chair with the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, and research is conducted at that institute. The lab accepts students at the graduate level. It welcomes not only those who have studied cultural heritage but also those with a natural science background.
Kazuhiro Aoki, Professor
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The Quantitative Biology Lab (Aoki Lab) studies how cells sense various substances outside the cell, process that information through intracellular reaction networks, and determine their own fate. While developing quantitative measurement and perturbation technologies, the lab investigates how cells process information (encoding) and how they determine their fate (decoding). Through an approach that also includes reconstructing cells in a computer, the lab aims to address the fundamental question of what it means to be alive. The lab also has a branch at the Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS).
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