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Hitoshi Shiku, Professor
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The Shuku Lab studies new measurement systems based on electrochemistry. It has worked on techniques for arranging different types of biomolecules side by side and on multiplexed bioanalysis that examines many items at once. By miniaturizing probes and electrochemical devices, it explores in depth what happens at electrode surfaces. Its goal is large-scale screening across a wide range of fields, from medicine and biotechnology to materials science, the environment, and energy.
Yutaka Tamaru, Professor
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The Tamaru Lab uses biotechnology to convert renewable biomass produced by plants and seaweed into substances that are useful to people. Carbohydrates stored through photosynthesis are broken down, saccharified, and fermented by microorganisms, then chemically converted into key platform compounds. The lab also aims to feed cultured microorganisms to fish as a protein source in place of fishmeal, and to extract antibodies from the fish that can be used for treatment. The lab's goal is to create new biotechnologies and bio-based products for a sustainable society.
Nobuhiko Iki, Professor
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The Iki Lab designs metal complexes, which combine metals and ligands, and studies how to bring out their functions. Complexes can absorb light, emit light, convert light into heat, and distinguish between molecules, and the lab aims to apply these properties to medical diagnosis and treatment. The lab also pursues research in analytical chemistry, developing separation and preconcentration methods and detection and quantification methods, because measuring substances is essential for understanding the environment. The lab is founded on the belief that a method that goes beyond the limits of existing analytical methods opens up a new world to see.
Maiko Nishibori, Professor
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The Nishibori Lab uses synchrotron radiation measurements and computational science to investigate the processes by which material structures form. Materials that are key to energy devices form hierarchical structures across a wide range of scales, from atoms to particles, and these structures determine their properties and functions. The lab therefore combines spectroscopy and scattering measurements to uncover hierarchical structures across both time and space. Based on the mechanisms it uncovers, the lab aims to create materials with new functions.
Osamu Takeda, Professor
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The Takeda-Zhu Lab centers on high-temperature molten salt electrochemistry and works on research ranging from fundamentals to applications. Because molten salts contain no water, they make it possible to extract metals such as lithium and rare earths, which cannot be obtained by electrolysis in water. Using this property, the lab works on producing reactive metals and on modifying the surfaces of heat-resistant materials by electroplating. It also accurately measures the viscosity and surface tension of high-temperature melts such as molten metals and slags, and investigates the fundamental behavior of liquids.
Kenjiro Terada, Professor
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The Advanced Computational Mechanics Lab develops numerical simulation methods for predicting the behavior of structures, fluids, and ground. It describes with equations how concrete, soil, metals, resins, and materials combining them change under force. The lab also takes on methods that compute step by step and link the whole sequence, from cracks forming and growing to the failure of an entire structure. It also develops techniques for presenting computational results clearly, aiming to provide information useful for disaster prevention education and decision-making.
So Kazama, Professor
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The Water Environment Systems Lab studies the movement of water over land and the water problems that arise there. Using satellite data and observation records, the lab investigates the mechanisms of the water cycle, including rainfall, snowfall, evapotranspiration, groundwater storage, and runoff. The lab examines how river organisms relate to the water environment through field surveys, biological experiments, and simulations. Using numerical climate models, the lab also clarifies how global warming affects floods, sediment disasters, and the environment of lakes and marshes.
Ryo Inoue, Associate Professor
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The Spatial Planning Science Lab develops methods for analyzing data tagged with time and location. Data recording social and economic activity increasingly retains detailed information on when and where events occurred. From such data, the lab reads the reality of people's activities and creates material for discussing the future of regions. The lab works on themes that shape how regions function, such as real estate prices, crime, and disaster risk.
Tatsuhito Kono, Professor
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The Social Systems Planning Lab studies the planning and evaluation of social infrastructure that underpins transportation, communications, daily life, and disaster prevention. The lab also studies the processes through which national and regional policies are decided. It seeks to clarify, through both theory and empirical analysis, how urban activities and social infrastructure influence each other across space. Using methods such as urban and regional economics, econometrics, and game theory, the lab places emphasis on applying its findings to actual policy.
Aya Kubota, Professor
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The Urban Design Lab studies methodologies for understanding on-site realities in order to envision how regions should be. Visiting disaster-affected areas, the lab repeats surveys and proposals while learning from the people who live there, the landscapes, and the relationships among people. It aims for design in which spatial intervention brings about emergence, and for design that values the "roots" that support the existence of people and things. The lab was established in 1995, and Prof. Kubota has led it since fiscal 2023.
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