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Tomohiro Kobayashi, Professor
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The Architectural and Urban Environmental Engineering Lab studies building services and building environmental engineering, including air conditioning, ventilation, natural ventilation, and environmental psychology and physiology. Its research fields are building environmental engineering, building services, and building materials. Its research themes include ventilation, natural airflow, indoor air quality, thermal environment, air-conditioning systems, commissioning, energy saving, and occupant evaluation. The lab's website is titled "Built Environment Laboratory" and presents the lab together with another area of the same group.
Michihiro Kita, Professor
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The Architectural and Urban Planning Lab (Kita Lab) examines the relationship between people and space in depth, and conducts research and practice on the planning and design of architectural, urban, and regional spaces. It takes a "human-environment system" perspective, in which humans and their environment evolve and develop together, covering scales from buildings to cities and regions. Building on the concept of "regional context"—that space is supported by invisible social organization, economic structures, and topography and ground—it conducts field studies in villages, cities, and new towns in Japan and abroad. By reading how space comes into being, the lab links this to spatial planning and community development that make people and society vibrant.
Hisatoshi Kashiwa, Professor
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The Architectural Seismology and Geotechnics Lab studies everything from analysis of earthquake ground motion to foundations, ground, and seismic isolation, in order to reduce earthquake damage to buildings. Focusing on the Osaka area, the lab analyzes ground motions from the Uemachi Fault and the Tonankai and Nankai earthquakes, and simulates building damage taking ground conditions into account. It investigates the behavior of foundations and ground during earthquakes through experiments and FEM analysis. As ways to reduce damage, it studies the development of seismically isolated and vibration-controlled structures and composite improved ground.
Susumu Kuwahara, Professor
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The Steel Structures Lab conducts mechanics-based research mainly on building structures such as steel structures, timber structures, and steel-concrete composite structures. Its aim is to develop theories and methods for creating safe and comfortable architectural spaces against loads such as earthquakes, typhoons, and snow. Specifically, the lab carries out numerical analysis on computers and experiments to confirm the theory. The lab belongs to the Architectural Structures Group in the Architectural Engineering Section of the Division of Global Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering.
Takeharu Nagai, Distinguished Professor
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The Photonic Biotechnology Lab conducts research on fluorescent proteins, bioluminescent proteins, and microscopy. The lab's website says it does research that is only possible by integrating optics, engineering, physics, chemistry, cell biology, developmental biology, botany, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical sciences. The news section lists papers on a fluorescent sensor that visualizes contact between cells and on photoswitchable fluorescent proteins. The lab's website presents it as the "Nagai Lab" and states that it accepts graduate students from the Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences and the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and also recruits widely from other universities.
Nicholas I. Smith, Associate Professor
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The Biophotonics Lab was established at the Immunology Frontier Research Center as one of the imaging groups that collaborate with immunology researchers. Its main focus is creating new technologies to investigate interesting problems in immunology and biology, and much of this is the development of label-free techniques that probe molecular-, cellular-, and tissue-level information without staining. Of particular interest are the changes that occur in cells that have received immune stimulation. The lab also collaborates with applied physics research groups at Osaka University.
Kaoru Mitsuoka, Professor
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The Life Science Lab (Mitsuoka Lab) uses an ultrahigh-voltage electron microscope to carry out high-resolution structural analysis of biological macromolecules and their complexes inside cells. A key feature of the ultrahigh-voltage electron microscope is that it can observe thick specimens. The lab uses rapid freezing to fix biological macromolecules as they are in ice, and examines their structures by cryo-electron microscopy. From these structures, the lab clarifies structural changes and localization inside cells, deepening basic understanding of life science while also conducting research toward engineering applications of biological macromolecules. The lab is one of the research fields of the Research Center for Ultra-High Voltage Electron Microscopy at Osaka University.
Makoto Nakajima, Professor
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The Nakajima Lab (Terahertz Science Group) studies terahertz spectroscopy, terahertz engineering, ultrafast spectroscopy, and metamaterials. Across the terahertz, infrared, and optical regions, the lab covers everything from fundamental physical phenomena to industrial application research. The lab also actively conducts joint research with companies. The lab is part of the Photon and Beam Science Division of the Institute of Laser Engineering, and accepts students as a cooperating laboratory of the School of Engineering and the Graduate School of Engineering.
Akifumi Yogo, Professor
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The Laser Science Lab focuses on research and development of power lasers that deliver the world's highest average power. It also studies the development of new laser materials, new methods of laser oscillation and amplification, and beam control technologies. The lab calls a multipurpose system that can be designed on demand through modularization a “smart power laser,” and aims at a wide range of applications such as laser processing, fluorescence analysis, and laser fusion. On the lab's website, it is introduced as the “PLS group (Power Laser System Engineering Group),” and students are assigned to it as a cooperating laboratory of the School of Engineering and the Graduate School of Engineering.
Akifumi Iwamoto, Professor
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The Iwamoto Lab (Photon and Quantum Energy Science research area) studies reactor design, fuel, and diagnostics to realize fusion energy using lasers. Fusion power is expected to be a clean energy source that emits no carbon dioxide, but the level of technology needed to build a fusion reactor is still low, and raising it is considered a key challenge. The lab works on topics such as cryogenic targets, blanket systems, laser fusion reactor design, and neutron diagnostics. It also studies fusion materials, as well as neutron source technology and neutron applications aimed at medical use. Research is carried out at the Institute of Laser Engineering, and the lab belongs to the Laser Energy Science Chair (a cooperating chair) of the Division of Electrical, Electronic and Infocommunications Engineering.
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