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Satoshi Sakaida

Lecturer, Graduate School of Science and Engineering (Faculty of Applied Science and 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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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

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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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Haruki Nagakawa

Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering ( (Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering)), Ibaraki University

He received his PhD (Engineering) degree from Tokyo University of Science in 2022. After working as a JSPS Research Fellow PD at the Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo, he joined Ibaraki University in 2023. He specializes in artificial photosynthesis using photocatalysts.

Specialty｜Inorganic Materials, Photochemistry

URL：https://info.ibaraki.ac.jp/Profiles/131/0013022/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