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Shuji Moriguchi, Professor
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The Computational Safety Engineering Lab develops a wide range of numerical simulation techniques for disaster prevention. To reduce the damage from disasters, it is essential to correctly understand their physical properties and mechanisms, predict the damage, and confirm the effect of countermeasures in advance. Drawing on knowledge of different subjects, namely structures, fluids, and ground, the lab develops analysis methods and data analysis techniques. Bringing together not only mechanics but also knowledge of probability, statistics, and disaster science, faculty and students carry out research as one team.
Keiko Udo, Professor
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The Water Environment Informatics Lab uses big data such as national land information and meteorological information to clarify how disasters cause damage. The lab quantifies the risks of storm waves, storm surges, tsunamis, and floods, with the goal of developing technologies that reduce damage efficiently. It treats the effects of climate-change-driven sea level rise and changing rainfall patterns on disasters, and adaptation measures against them, as especially important issues. The lab studies how water and sediment circulate over long periods across a wide area from mountains to the sea, and how this affects people's lives.
Li Yuyou, Professor
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The Environmental Conservation Engineering Lab researches technologies that use microorganisms to treat wastewater and waste. Using anaerobic treatment, which does not use oxygen, the lab removes nitrogen and phosphorus and also recovers methane and hydrogen as energy. The lab targets wastewater and waste actually produced in practice, such as urban sewage, wastewater from pig farms, and food waste. Beyond operating reactors, the lab also studies the microorganisms that work inside them.
Daisuke Sano, Professor
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The Environmental Water Quality Engineering Lab researches how to prevent infectious diseases spread through water. The lab investigates how gastroenteritis viruses such as norovirus move through human society and the water environment. Through both experiments and data analysis, it clarifies how water and sewage treatment and disinfection act on pathogens. The lab is also working to understand the actual state of water environment contamination by drug-resistant bacteria, which are not killed by antibiotics.
Takashi Sakamaki, Professor
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The Environmental Ecosystem Engineering Lab conducts research on the sustainable use of the functions that ecosystems provide. Its research targets include the cycling of materials in water, the capacity to purify water, and the capacity to nurture living organisms. Members go out to coastal seas and rice paddies to examine water quality and organisms firsthand. Using chemical analyses such as stable isotope ratios, as well as environmental DNA, they interpret what is happening in the field.
Shunichi Koshimura, Professor
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The Disaster Geoinformatics Lab is developing a new framework for detecting and assessing disaster damage. It combines real-time computation, models that estimate damage and losses, and remote sensing. Its goal is to deliver, as practically usable information, where a disaster has struck and how much damage it has caused. To support disaster response, relief, and humanitarian assistance, the lab also conducts joint research with universities and companies in Japan and overseas.
Takashi Akamatsu, Professor
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The Transport Control Lab studies mathematical and information-science methods for planning and operating urban and transportation systems. Made up of the Akamatsu Lab and the Satsukawa Lab, it covers fields such as transportation, spatial economics, and investment. Using information and communication technology and game theory, the lab explores how to build comfortable, congestion-free transportation systems. It also works on designing institutions for bringing new modes of mobility, such as autonomous driving, sharing, and MaaS, into cities.
Makoto Okumura, Professor
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The Regional Planning and Resilience Planning Lab aims to realize regions that can respond flexibly to disasters and recover from them. The lab examines, both quantitatively and qualitatively, how disasters in Japan and abroad have affected local societies and economies, and how those areas recovered. Its research also covers approaches to reconstruction planning that draw on the experience of disaster damage, and how governance between government and residents should work. Building on statistics, economics, and geography, the lab uses GIS and optimization methods to plan land use and transportation.
Katsuya Hirano, Associate Professor
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The Regional Planning and Spatial Design Strategy Lab studies reconstruction-oriented community planning in tsunami-affected areas and the design of civil infrastructure. The lab also works on landscape perception mechanisms, meaning how people perceive landscapes, and on applying them to community planning. Landscape theory and urban planning theory are also listed among its research topics. In the Faculty of Engineering, the lab is introduced as a lab of the Urban System Planning Course in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering.
Taro Igarashi, Professor
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The Architectural Design Lab studies the relationship between architecture and other genres, including art, and works to bring this into design. The lab has handled architecture exhibitions in Japan and abroad, from planning through installation to operation. In areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, the lab carries out projects such as temporary housing in Minamisoma. As the Igarashi Lab, it works together with the Urban and Architectural Theory Lab.
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