Director
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Kotaro Tanaka
Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering,Ibaraki University.
Born in Osaka
After working at National Traffic Safety and Environment Laboratory, CNRS Nancy University (France), and the Environmental Science Center(the University of Tokyo), he was appointed to his current position at Ibaraki University in 2012.
Specializes in engine combustion using next-generation fuels, exhaust measurement, and advanced exhaust aftertreatment systems.
Specialty|Thermal Engineering
URL:https://info.ibaraki.ac.jp/Profiles/24/0002322/profile.html?lang=en
Unit Leader
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Satoshi Sakaida
Lecturer, Graduate School of Science and Engineering (Engineering),Ibaraki University
Direct air capture and fuel cells are the subject of research. D. degree from Hokkaido University after resigning from Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. Joined Ibaraki University in 2017.
Specialty|Thermal Engineering
URL:https://info.ibaraki.ac.jp/Profiles/104/0010301/profile.html?lang=en
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Hiroki Fukumoto
Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering(Engineering),Ibaraki University
Specialty|Polymer Chemistry
URL:https://info.ibaraki.ac.jp/Profiles/24/0002321/profile.html?lang=en
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Yasuyuki Sakai
Professor, Carbon Recycling Energy Research Center, Ibaraki University
D. degree in Chemical Systems Engineering from the University of Tokyo, and after working in the Graduate School of Engineering at the University of Fukui, he moved to Ibaraki University in 2021.
He specializes in theoretical chemistry-based analysis of biofuels, e-fuel, hydrogen, and ammonia combustion.
Specialty|Combustion Chemistry, Computational Chemistry
URL:https://info.ibaraki.ac.jp/Profiles/118/0011702/profile.html?lang=en
Unit Members
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Yanrong Li
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering (Engineering), Ibaraki University
Ph. D from the University of Tokyo for research on fluid self-excited vibration in 2013. After working as a JSPS Research Fellow DC2 and PD, she joined Ibaraki University in 2013.
Specialty|Thermal and Fluid Engineering
URL:https://info.ibaraki.ac.jp/Profiles/25/0002464/profile.html?lang=en
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Tomoyasu Nishizawa
Professor, College of Agriculture, Ibaraki University and United Graduate School of Agriculture Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
After completing the United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, he worked as a research fellow at the University of Michigan before joining Ibaraki University in 2013.
Engage in research on microbial interactions related to food science, environmental conservation, and soil function
Specialty|Applied Environmental Microbiology
URL:https://info.ibaraki.ac.jp/Profiles/26/0002501/profile.html?lang=en
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Tastuya Jotsuka
Lecturer, Graduate School of Science and Engineering (Engineering),Ibaraki University
Engaged in research on theoretical chemistry at domestic and international research institutions for about 17 years. His specialty is physical chemistry using computational science, and his research subjects include catalysis and interfaces. After participating in research at the French Higher Normal School and Tohoku University as a postdoctoral researcher, he has been at Ibaraki University since 2018.
Specialty|Physical Chemistry
URL:https://info.ibaraki.ac.jp/Profiles/104/0010400/profile.html?lang=en
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Terumitsu Hirata
Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering(Engineering), Ibaraki University
Specialized in transportation engineering and civil engineering plan
D. dgree of Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. After working at the Institute For Policy Studies (now Japan Transport and Tourism Research Institute), he joined Ibaraki University in 2013.
Specialty|Transportation Engineering
URL:https://info.ibaraki.ac.jp/Profiles/25/0002466/profile.html?lang=en
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Yukiko Yoshida
Many years of experience in the validation of numerical simulation models of indoor and outdoor heat load reduction effects in buildings, and in the evaluation of carbon dioxide emissions of individual countermeasure technologies from the design to the operational phase.
After working as an assistant fellow at NIES, National Institute for Environmental Studies, assistant professor at Nagoya University, lecturer at Osaka University, and deputy general counsel at R.I.A. Corporation, she has been an assistant professor at Ibaraki University since 2021. D. degree of Engineering,
first-classs registered architect
Specialty|Architectural environmental engineering, building equipment
URL:https://info.ibaraki.ac.jp/Profiles/117/0011662/profile.html?lang=en
Open Science Unit Members
Huang Weidi
Affiliation|Carbon Recycling Energy Research Center, Ibaraki University
Research Fellow, Ibaraki University
Shunsuke Suzuki
Affiliation|National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Specially Appointed Fellow, Ibaraki University
Takuya Mabuchi
Affiliation|Frontier Research Institute For Interdisciplinary Sciences Tohoku University
Specially Appointed Fellow, Ibaraki University