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Koki Kikuta, Associate Professor
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The Environmental Space Design Lab studies indoor environments and building services, in fields including building hygiene and sustainable architecture. It investigates air quality and thermal environments in homes and workplaces from the standpoint of the health and comfort of the people who live and work there. In 2023, Associate Professor Kikuta and colleagues supervised a collection of case studies on ventilation measures to prevent infection in nursery schools and facilities for older adults.
Ryoma Kitagaki, Professor
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The Building Materials Lab does research from a materials science standpoint so that buildings and structures can be used longer, more conveniently, and more safely. The lab focuses on two main subjects: concrete, an inorganic material, and polymers, an organic material. Using both experiments and analysis, the lab emphasizes identifying how materials degrade and how to stop that degradation. The lab also works on the use of waste in construction and on research that contributes to carbon neutrality.
Katsuki Kimura, Professor
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The Water Reclamation Engineering Lab studies water reclamation, which cleans polluted water, and ways to make use of the reclaimed water. Most of its research centers on membrane filtration, which filters water through a membrane with very fine pores. The lab works on sewage treatment using membrane bioreactors (MBRs) and on recovering the resources and energy contained in sewage.
Sadamu Yamagata, Project Assistant Professor
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The Regional Environment Lab works on a wide variety of natural and urban environmental problems that arise in local communities. Building on engineering knowledge and technology, the lab combines the knowledge and technology needed for solutions in an integrated way, with the aim of contributing to local communities. Its research areas are the management and use of forest biomass, and the use of natural energy in local communities.
Tsubasa Otake, Professor
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The Environmental Geology Lab studies water-rock interactions in natural environments, with the goal of applying that understanding to engineering. The lab works to gain geological insight into rare metal and base metal ore deposits and to clarify the properties of the minerals contained in ores. To dispose of excavation muck from mine development and radioactive waste with minimal environmental impact, the lab also studies the behavior of toxic elements. The lab conducts fieldwork in countries across Africa and Asia, as well as at sites throughout Japan.
Satoru Kawasaki, Professor
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The Rock Mechanics Lab studies how rock and rock masses deform and fracture, using experiments and numerical simulation. Learning from beachrock, in which beach sand and gravel naturally turn into rock, the lab also works on developing technology that solidifies soil using microorganisms. Based on this research, the lab aims to address rock mass problems in resource development and civil engineering, such as rock mass stability in mines, geological disposal of radioactive waste, and tunnels.
Naoto Tsubochi, Associate Professor
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The Energy Conversion System Design Lab aims to solve problems of resources, energy, and the environment using the power of chemistry. The lab develops processes that turn carbon resources not currently in use, such as biomass and low-grade coal, into clean energy and high-value chemical feedstocks. It also works on mechanisms that make low-quality iron ore usable for ironmaking, and on carbon recycling technologies that reuse CO2 that has already been emitted. From the viewpoint of food loss, the lab studies freshness management of marine biological resources such as fish and shellfish from a chemical engineering perspective.
Kosuke Nomura, Associate Professor
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The Nuclear Theory Lab theoretically studies the structure and reactions of atomic nuclei as quantum many-body systems. A nucleus is a bound system of a few to several hundred nucleons (protons and neutrons) held together by the nuclear force, and it displays the rich phenomena characteristic of many-body systems. In recent years, accelerator experiments have artificially produced short-lived nuclei that do not exist stably in nature (unstable nuclei), greatly broadening the scope of research. Understanding atomic nuclei is also key to solving fundamental physics problems, such as the origin of matter, the synthesis of heavy elements in the early universe, and tests of fundamental symmetries.
Masahiro Matsuo, Professor
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The Foundations of Science Lab studies philosophy of science, which asks "What is scientific knowledge?" and "How can scientific knowledge be obtained?" Traditionally, research centered on the philosophy of physics, but the lab is now building a structure that allows philosophy of science to be studied from a broader perspective. The lab aims not to keep its results within philosophy, but to link them to practical problems such as health and environmental risks and discuss them in that context. The lab does not accept undergraduate thesis students; it is a lab where students study in the Science Communication Course of the Department of Natural History Sciences, Graduate School of Science.
Shishin Kawamoto, Associate Professor
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The Science and Technology Communication Lab studies the relationship between science and society, aiming to improve it. Expert knowledge is unevenly distributed. Who opens it up, how, to whom, and with whom do they create new knowledge? The lab considers this question in close connection with practice. Centering on fieldwork and using methods such as large-scale questionnaire surveys as needed, the lab seeks to clarify science and technology as a social phenomenon from a broad, historical perspective. Students join this lab from graduate school; it does not accept undergraduate thesis students.
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