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Fumihiko Omori, Associate Professor
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The Omori Lab is an urban planning lab that unravels the history of cities, faces the present, and thinks about the future. The lab sees a city as something elusive that keeps changing as its residents are replaced over time. To face a city is to face its people, including the predecessors who once built the town and the children who will live in the city in the future. Centered on urban planning, the lab conducts surveys, research, and activities with cities, people, and the global environment as its broad scope.
Takuya Oki, Associate Professor
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The Oki Lab develops methods that use big data and AI to provide the "evidence" on which architectural planning and community development can rely. It works with diverse data, including images of building interiors and exteriors, real estate listings, social media, pedestrian flows, and gaze trajectories. Its research topics include where people get lost and stop in train stations, why parents choose the daycare centers they do, and circulation routes inside hospitals.
Shoichi Kishiki, Professor
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The Kishiki Lab studies technologies that protect buildings from earthquakes. It works on methods that limit damage to buildings through seismic isolation and vibration control, as well as seismic retrofitting of existing buildings. The lab also conducts research on assessing the extent of damage to buildings harmed by earthquakes and developing methods to repair them. Its subjects center on steel structures and extend to a wide range of structural types, including reinforced concrete and timber.
Nobuhiro Chijiwa, Professor
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Chijiwa Lab focuses on concrete, the basic material of infrastructure. Building on concrete engineering, the lab actively pursues collaboration and integration with other areas of civil engineering and with other engineering fields. Its work includes investigating the causes of long-term deformation in structures, evaluating the performance of corroded reinforced concrete (RC) and prestressed concrete (PC) structures, and developing geopolymer, a new material. Using both experiments and numerical analysis, the lab uncovers how deterioration and damage occur.
Mai Sawada, Associate Professor
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The Sawada Lab studies the properties of unsaturated soil, which consists of soil particles, water, and air. In ground above the groundwater table, the proportions of these three components greatly change how water flows through the soil and how strong it is. Using laboratory tests and pore-scale fluid analysis, the lab investigates how the proportions of water and air change soil properties. Based on this mechanics, the lab also works on protecting the foundations of ancient burial mounds (kofun) and historic buildings damaged by natural disasters or aging.
Manabu Fujii, Associate Professor
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Fujii Lab explores what a sustainable society should look like, through the lens of water and the environment. The lab conducts research in environmental engineering, including watershed environmental conservation, biogeochemical cycling, and water use and treatment. It combines this with challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and sustainable development, and carries out research that crosses disciplinary boundaries. In addition to experiments, the lab uses theoretical calculations such as AI, data science, and quantum chemistry.
Chihiro Yoshimura, Professor
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The Yoshimura Lab studies how water environments such as lakes and rivers work, and applies the findings to water use and management. Its research has three themes: environmental photochemistry, modeling of material dynamics and ecosystems in the environment, and ecosystem services. The lab investigates through experiments how sunlight changes substances in water, and uses computers to reproduce the ecosystems of lakes and bays. In addition to Japan, it studies lakes in Indonesia and Cambodia, working with universities and research institutions overseas.
Shinya Hanaoka, Professor
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The Hanaoka Lab studies, from the standpoint of transport and logistics, the problems that hold back the growth of developing and emerging countries. The lab proposes “transport development studies” as the discipline for solving these problems. Specific themes include cross-border transport, transport for landlocked countries, humanitarian logistics, and port planning. The lab also studies aviation policy and airport planning in Asia.
Chikako Ishizuka, Associate Professor
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The Ishizuka Lab studies the mechanisms of reactions between atomic nuclei using both theory and machine learning. Under the banner of “nuclear physics for a better society,” the lab works to elucidate nuclear reaction mechanisms, with a focus on nuclear fission. It applies this knowledge to nuclear transmutation in fast reactors and molten salt reactors, cancer treatment with heavy ions, reactor monitoring, and more. The lab also studies nuclear data, which form the foundation of these applications, with the goal of returning knowledge of nuclear physics to society.
Tatsuya Katabuchi, Associate Professor
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The Katabuchi Lab studies the nuclear reactions caused by neutrons, centered on experiments using neutron beams. Using neutrons produced by accelerators, the lab precisely measures how likely neutron capture reactions are to occur and the gamma rays they emit. This data is used in designing nuclear reactors and in understanding how elements heavier than iron were created in space. The lab also conducts research related to boron neutron capture therapy for cancer and research on nuclear security.
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