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Zhongfang Lei, Professor
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The Bioresource Process Engineering Lab studies technologies such as biomass conversion and waste treatment for building a recycling-oriented society. Its research has two main areas: purifying water environments and recovering value-added substances using aerobic granules of algae and bacteria, and converting organic waste into resources through methane fermentation. The granule research is presented as the Water group (Professor Zhongfang Lei), and the methane fermentation research as the Biomass group (Assistant Professor Den Hara). On the lab's website, a large number of international students and the lab seminar are listed as features of its environment.
Tofael Ahamed, Associate Professor
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The Biological Production Machinery Lab conducts research on precision agriculture technologies, agricultural robots, and decision support systems. The production of crops, fruit trees, and livestock varies by location and by season, even within the same field, depending on soil, nutrient, and environmental conditions. To respond to this variability, the lab studies smart systems that apply IoT and artificial intelligence (AI) to agriculture. The lab's website also introduces ground-based remote sensing and the development and management of agricultural machinery as research areas.
Kong Peifu, Assistant Professor
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The Environmental Materials Science Lab studies paper and films for food packaging made from woody biomass and polysaccharides. Its work includes antibacterial paper for food packaging made with tree essential oils such as hinoki cypress oil, and packaging films made from cellulose. In the College's list of research fields, the lab appears as "Environmental Materials Science" under Forest Resource Materials in the Environmental Engineering course.
Akiko Nakagawa, Associate Professor
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The Biomaterial Chemistry Lab studies biomaterials such as wood from a chemical perspective and researches ways to utilize them. The chemistry of wood pulping and pulp bleaching is one of its research topics. The lab also works on biorefinery, the chemical utilization of biomaterials, and on trace analysis of wood components such as lignin. The lab was formerly called the Forest Products Chemistry Lab.
Eiichi Obataya, Associate Professor
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The Wood-Based Materials Engineering Lab studies biological materials such as the wood and reed cane used in musical instruments. By understanding the properties of these materials accurately, the lab aims to contribute to making high-quality instruments and to stress-free playing. Many of the woods used in instruments come from endangered species, so the lab is also developing alternative materials to replace them. The findings from this research are expected to be applicable to the manufacture of building materials and the making of crafts.
Motoo Utsumi, Professor
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To enable the sustainable use of water resources, the Water Environment Ecological Engineering Lab conducts a wide range of basic research on the water environment as well as research on improving it. The lab investigates the mechanisms by which toxins and musty-odor compounds associated with algal blooms (aoko) are produced, and the amount of carbon taken up by microbes. It also works on water purification technologies that use microbial activity, such as biofilm treatment, and aeration with oxygen generated by electrolysis. On the lab's website it is introduced under the name "Utsumi Lab," and the latest news posted there is from 2020.
Yingnan Yang, Professor
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The Bio and Material Cycle Engineering Lab studies the development of photocatalysts and fermentation technologies that produce hydrogen and methane from waste. A photocatalyst is a material that generates strong oxidizing power when exposed to light, and can decompose and remove harmful substances such as endocrine disruptors, toxic exhaust gases, pesticide residues, and bacteria. The lab works on developing new photocatalytic materials that can use visible light such as sunlight and LEDs, as well as fermentation systems that use sunlight. It is also building environmental remediation systems that combine photocatalysts and microbes.
Takeshi Mizunoya, Associate Professor
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The Social and Environmental Systems Lab conducts research on the comprehensive evaluation of environment-related technologies and policies. Its listed research fields include numerical simulation and environmental economic policy, as well as the analysis and evaluation of the socioeconomics of production and consumption and its impact on the environment. Waste and recycling policy and international resource circulation policy are also listed as research fields. On the university's official page, the lab is introduced as a research field of the Environmental Engineering course in the College of Agro-Biological Resource Sciences.
Yabar Helmut, Associate Professor
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The Sustainable Resource Management Lab studies how to manage resources sustainably, evaluating the environmental impact of waste and energy using methods such as geographic information systems (GIS) and life cycle assessment. The faculty member's research keywords include integrated waste management systems, renewable energy systems, and environmental technology innovation. The faculty member's co-authored papers include some that use overseas regions, such as Bangladesh and Myanmar, as case studies. In the college's faculty list, the lab appears under the field "Environment and Its Management" in the Environmental Engineering course.
Hisato Shuto, Associate Professor
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The Bioresource Economics Lab studies agricultural policy, food consumption, and agribusiness using the methods of economics. Its research covers agricultural policy and economic development under globalization, economic analysis of food consumption in developed and developing countries, and industrial organization research on agribusiness. The lab has papers on countries such as Japan, India, and Ethiopia.
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