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Tetsuya Sakuma, Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
Sakuma Lab (Environmental Acoustics Lab) studies the living environments of buildings and cities, with a particular focus on the sound environment. The lab examines how to predict and evaluate sound environments and how to design and control them, from both the physical side and the psychological and physiological side of human perception. It addresses issues such as architectural acoustics, noise and vibration, communication, and soundscapes, including their social and cultural aspects. The lab has a semi-anechoic room and a visual environment laboratory at Hongo Campus, and an anechoic room and an outdoor acoustic test building at Kashiwa Campus.
Masayuki Mae, Associate Professor
Civil Engineering, Architecture & Urban1 student voices
Mae Lab (Maelab) researches the component technologies and design methods needed to decarbonize housing. Its goal is a society where everyone, anywhere in Japan, can live healthy, comfortable lives without worrying about electricity bills. The lab's research rests on three pillars: experiments in facilities such as a rooftop test building, field measurements in actual homes across the country, and simulation, with particular emphasis on field measurements. The lab also supports the design of eco-houses that are actually built, placing great importance on a hands-on, on-site approach.
Tatsuya Itoi, Associate Professor
Structures & Mechanics1 student voices
The Itoi Lab conducts research on assessing and managing the risk of natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis. The lab develops methodologies for evaluating building performance, assessing disaster risk across entire cities, and predicting and evaluating natural phenomena that cause damage (hazards), such as earthquake ground motion and tsunamis. Its research combines simulation, probability and statistics, and machine learning using big data. Project Associate Professor Koyama of the Social Cooperation Program "Next-Generation Numerical Simulation for Construction," and the students of the Koyama Lab, are also members of the lab.
Koichi Kusunoki, Professor
Structures & Mechanics1 student voices
The Kusunoki-Maida Lab mainly studies the behavior of reinforced concrete buildings during earthquakes through experiments and analysis. The lab conducts experiments in which force is applied to structural members such as columns and beams, as well as experiments in which an entire building is shaken to examine how it moves. For its research on structural health monitoring, the lab measures and records the vibrations of actual buildings in a variety of regions. It is an international lab that brings together researchers not only from Japan but from many different countries.
Fumiya Iida, Professor
Robotics & Control1 student voices
The Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab (BIRL) studies the design principles of intelligent, adaptive robots by learning from the basic mechanisms of living organisms. At the core of its research is the idea of "embodied intelligence": intelligence resides not only in the brain but also in the body. The lab works on soft robotics, which builds robots from soft materials, and on dexterous robot hands that move like human hands. In addition to the University of Cambridge in the UK, the lab now has a base at the University of Tokyo.
Kouhei Tsumoto, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
Tsumoto Lab studies how biomolecules such as proteins bind to one another. Using a variety of pairings as subjects, including antibodies and antigens and receptors and the molecules that bind to them, the lab investigates the strength of binding and the mechanisms by which molecules select their partners. The lab combines experiments such as methods that measure heat exchange (calorimetry) and crystal structure analysis with computational calculations in its analyses. Based on the findings, the lab takes on the design of proteins and small molecules, aiming at applications in medicine and materials.
Yoshimitsu Itoh, Associate Professor
Materials & Nanotech1 student voices
The Molecular Interface Engineering Lab studies new molecules that act on interfaces, the boundaries where substances meet. Interfaces make up only a small part of a material as a whole, yet their influence is so great that one could say most of a material's properties and functions are determined at the interface. Using synthetic organic chemistry and polymer chemistry, the lab designs and synthesizes molecules, aiming to develop unprecedented ways of making materials and new functional materials. Recently, the lab has been working on porous polymer membranes that are lightweight yet rigid, and on materials that make use of new properties of amides.
Daisuke Kawaguchi, Project Professor
Chemistry & Catalysis1 student voices
The Fluorine Organic Chemistry Lab studies the properties of fluorine-containing molecules and polymers and applies them to new materials. Established in the Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology with funding from AGC Inc., the lab is a Social Cooperation Program that conducts research in collaboration with industry. Making use of handling techniques for fluorinated gases, which have rarely been used in academic research, the lab pursues material design with a high degree of freedom. The lab also aims to develop drug delivery systems that combine the characteristics of fluorine-containing molecules.
Akimitsu Okamoto, Professor
Bio & Life Sciences1 student voices
The Okamoto Lab studies how biopolymers such as nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) and proteins are involved in biological phenomena. Bringing the approach of synthetic organic chemistry into biology and genetics research, the lab designs and synthesizes artificial biopolymers with special functions. The lab also develops new chemical systems that can identify, modify, and visualize a single component or even a single atom within a biopolymer. Its work combines organic synthesis, photochemistry, state-of-the-art spectroscopy, and biological experiments.
Tsuyoshi Osawa, Associate Professor
Medicine & Healthcare1 student voices
Osawa Lab aims to develop new cancer therapies from the perspective of "nutriomics," which integrates nutrition and omics data. It has become clear that the harsh environment surrounding cancer cells (the tumor microenvironment) promotes cancer progression. The lab integrates multiple layers of omics information, from genes to metabolites, to analyze cancer cells within the tumor microenvironment. The lab believes that overcoming cancer requires research that spans medicine, biology, engineering, and chemistry.
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