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Tadahisa Iwata, Professor
Materials & Nanotech1 student voices
The Polymer Materials Science Lab studies environmentally friendly plastics. The lab creates "biomass plastics" made from plants and "biodegradable plastics" that break down into carbon dioxide and water in the environment. Its work is wide-ranging: synthesizing plastics, processing them into films and fibers, analyzing their structures using large synchrotron radiation facilities, and evaluating how easily they degrade. The lab aims to leave a sustainable society and a beautiful global environment to future generations.
Kiyohiko Igarashi, Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis1 student voices
The Forest Chemistry Lab studies the degradation and synthesis of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin, the components of wood. The lab mainly carries out its research using enzymes from wood-decaying fungi, which cause wood to rot. Cellulose is the most abundant biomass on Earth, but much remains unknown about how fungi break it down. By clarifying how this degradation occurs in nature, the lab explores ideas for extracting energy and useful substances from biomass.
Saneyuki Kawabata, Professor
Food & Agriculture1 student voices
The Institute for Sustainable Agro-ecosystem Services studies how agriculture and forestry relate to ecosystem services, the benefits that nature provides. Based at Tanashi Campus, where cropland, green space, and forest form a continuous landscape, the institute carries out education and research that connect farm fields with society. Labs (Cooperating Chairs) from several departments of the Graduate School are located here and work on crop production and cultivation techniques, plant ecology, and more. Students in the Major in Landscape Ecology and Planning can also carry out their graduation thesis research here.
Takehito Yoshida, Professor
Environment & Sustainability1 student voices
The Conservation Ecology Lab studies how human activities affect ecosystems and biodiversity, and how to conserve and restore them. Ecosystem services, the benefits that ecosystems provide to people, and the relationship between people and nature are also important themes. The lab's work goes beyond ecology as a branch of biology. It includes research that combines ecology with other natural sciences and with the humanities and social sciences, as well as research conducted in collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders in society. The subjects of study are wide-ranging, from aquatic organisms to wild animals living in cities.
Toshiya Okuro, Professor
Environment & Sustainability1 student voices
The Landscape Ecology and Planning Lab studies methods for restoring, conserving, and creating green space environments (landscapes) where people and nature can coexist. The lab approaches this from two sides: ecology, which explains environmental phenomena, and planning, which applies research findings to society. Its study areas are the varied regions that surround people, including satoyama (rural landscapes of villages and adjacent woodlands), cities, and drylands.
Yukie Saito, Professor
Materials & Nanotech1 student voices
The Wood Physics Lab studies how tissues made by living organisms, wood above all, come to have their properties as materials. In addition to mechanical strength as a structural member in timber construction, wood has many other functions, such as regulating indoor humidity and absorbing vibration. Its physical properties are shaped by intertwined factors at many levels, from molecular and cell structure to the environment in which it is used. The lab also studies the physiological and psychological responses of people when they use wood, and how institutions and policies should be designed so that biological materials become established in society.
Yutaka Kaizu, Associate Professor
Robotics & Control1 student voices
The Biological Machinery Engineering Lab studies "bioenergy" and "bioproduction machinery." The lab works on energy derived from living organisms, such as producing fuel feedstock from algae and making biogas and ethanol from biomass. In agriculture, to improve work efficiency while reducing environmental impact, the lab studies autonomous vehicles and weeding robots that work precisely without human operators. Other themes include robotic boats for managing aquatic plants in lakes and automating the production of dried persimmons with robots.
Ryo Matsuda, Professor
Food & Agriculture1 student voices
The Biological and Environmental Engineering Lab mainly studies the relationship between plants and their environment at the tissue, organ, individual plant, and canopy levels. How organisms grow is influenced by their environment, and organisms in turn affect their environment through their living activities. By understanding this relationship, the lab aims to develop ways to make crop production more efficient, improve the quality of products, and help solve environmental problems. The lab works on topics at the boundary between engineering and biology, ranging from developing methods to control light, water, and gas environments to analyzing how photosynthesis responds to the environment.
Taku Nishimura, Professor
Environment & Sustainability1 student voices
The Environmental Soil and Water Science Lab studies the movement of water and chemical substances in soil. The lab combines laboratory experiments using small soil-packed tubes (columns), field measurements, and computer simulations. Its subjects include every kind of soil, from desert sand to peat soil in wetlands. The lab works to clarify the mechanisms behind soil-related problems such as desertification, salinization, soil contamination, soil erosion, and greenhouse gas emissions from soil.
Keigo Noda, Associate Professor
Food & Agriculture1 student voices
The Irrigation and Water Environment Engineering Lab conducts research to sustain water resources and water environments in agricultural and rural areas. It studies agricultural irrigation and drainage systems, which deliver water to fields and carry away unneeded water, and develops methods for their rational design, operation and management, and low-labor maintenance. The lab also aims to create a healthy water cycle and waterside environments by conserving water quality and ecosystems in rural areas. Its research covers not only rural areas in Japan but also river basins in Laos.
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