Sections & Members
Organization
Research Department
Social Implementation Research Support Offices
Members
- Director's Office
- Material Cycles and Social Systems Research Section
- Global Resource Sustainability Research Section
- Sustainable Circular Science and Engineering Research Section
- Testing and Assessment Research Section
- Waste Management Design and Engineering Research Section
- International Research Facilitation Unit for Material Cycles
- Director's Office
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Name * Job Title Main Research Theme Keisuke NANSAI Director Environmental structure analysis of consumption and production system based on the systems thinking Hidetoshi KURAMOCHI Deputy Director Development of waste recycling technologies for a decarbonized society and study on behavior of PFAS during waste treatment and recycling processes Kazuto ENDO Head, Wastes and Material Cycles Research Section, Fukushima Regional Collaborative Research Center Research on treatment and recycling of removed soil and radioactively contaminated waste
Research on stabilization and mass transfer of landfill siteMasahiro OSAKO Fellow Comprehensive studies on material cycles and waste management Atsushi TERAZONO Fellow Analysis of material cycle systems in Asia Masato YAMADA Specially Appointed Researcher Science and technology for landfill Takashi SHIMADA Research Associate Soichiro OTSUKA Officer Koji OTSUKA Specialist * Family name is fully capitalized.
- Material Cycles and Social Systems Research Section
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Name * Job Title Main Research Theme Tomohiro TASAKI Head Policy analysis and evaluation for establishing circular society and sustainable society Masahiro OGUCHI Chief Senior Researcher Integrated system analysis on waste treatment/material-cycles and chemical management Rokuta INABA Senior Researcher Scenario analysis of technology system of sustainable urban waste Scenario analysis of technology system of sustainable municipal waste Aya YOSHIDA Senior Researcher Sustainable lifestyle, low carbon lifestyle Haruhisa YAMAMOTO Research Associate Model development and scenario analysis of municipal solid waste flows, and analysis of the disposal of durable goods ZHANG Sailu Research Associate * Family name is fully capitalized.
- Global Resource Sustainability Research Section
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Name * Job Title Main Research Theme Kenichi NAKAJIMA Head Material circulation design and evaluation for sustainable resource management Ryu KOIDE Senior Researcher Integrated Research on Industrial Ecology, Consumer Behavior, and Social Simulation for the Transition towards a Decarbonized, Circular Economy Takuma WATARI Senior Researcher Development and application of global material cycle models Jacob FRY Senior Research Scientist Energy and material basis of the economy, climate change mitigation, industrial metabolism Guochang XU Research Associate Material circulation design and evaluation for sustainable resource management HE Ziyan Research Associate FAN TIANHUI Research Associate * Family name is fully capitalized.
- Sustainable Circular Science and Engineering Research Section/dt>
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Name * Job Title Main Research Theme Go SUZUKI Head Risk management of microplastics and related chemicals during the product life cycle Takuro KOBAYASHI Chief Senior Researcher Technology development for resource recovery and energy production from liquid and organic wastes Kenji KOIDO Senior Researcher Enhancing the efficiency of technologies, processes, and systems for waste chemical recycling and woody and herbaceous biomass energy towards decarbonisation Kousuke TANAKA Researcher Study on behavior and risk assessment of micro- and nano- plastics and related chemicals discharged from waste recycling process Eriko MINARI Researcher Research on treatment and disposal of removed soil and contaminated waste, and on elucidating the status and movement of radioactive substances in the environment through measurements and simulations, and assessing human radiation doses. * Family name is fully capitalized.
- Testing and assessment research section
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Name * Job Title Main Research Theme Hirofumi SAKANAKURA Head Evaluation of recyclable materials (construction & industrial by-products, solid wastes) for environmentally safe utilization Natsuko KAJIWARA Prime Senior Researcher Research on additive chemicals contained in flame-retardant products and recycled plastic products Takashi YAMAMOTO Chief Senior Researcher Development of analytical methods for the detoxification of asbestos containing wastes Hidenori MATSUKAMI Chief Senior Researcher Development and application of monitoring and chemical analytical techniques for the determination of environmental contaminants Yuka OGATA Senior Researcher Feasibility evaluation and technological development of the application of biological functions (plants and microorganisms) to the appropriate management of material cycles and waste Yueyuan ZHAO Research Associate Mitali NAG Research Associate NGUYEN Thi Ngoc Research Associate ALIDOUST Saharkhiz Lahiji Mona Research Associate Yuto YOSHIDA Research Assistant * Family name is fully capitalized.
- Waste Management Design and Engineering Research Section
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Name * Job Title Main Research Theme Tomonori ISHIGAKI Head Technology and system for appropriate waste management Yoshitaka EBIE Principal Researcher Development of appropriate management system for liquid waste Kosuke KAWAI Chief Senior Researcher Design and evaluation of solid waste management based on food waste recycling toward decarbonization Hiroyuki ISHIMORI Senior Researcher Long-term environmental safety evaluation for waste landfill sites and recycled material-used sites Ryo TAJIMA Senior Researcher Planning and management for integrated waste management PAYOMTHIP Panida Research Associate RIZKIANTO Febrian Research Associate SONG Yawen Research Associate Afif Faiq MUHAMAD Research Associate System analysis on governance for establishing resilient and effective material cycle systems * Family name is fully capitalized.
- International Research Facilitation Unit for Material Cycles
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Name * Job Title Main Research Theme Yoshitaka EBIE Principal Researcher Development of appropriate management system for liquid waste Natsuko KAJIWARA Prime Senior Researcher Research on additive chemicals contained in flame-retardant products and recycled plastic products Kosuke KAWAI Chief Senior Researcher Design and evaluation of solid waste management based on food waste recycling toward decarbonization Takuma WATARI Senior Researcher Development and application of global material cycle models Soichiro OTSUKA Officer Tami AOKI Specialist Koji OTSUKA Specialist * Family name is fully capitalized.
