Sections & Members
Organization
Research Department
Social Implementation Research Support Offices
Collaborative Research Groups
Members
- Director's Office
- Material Cycles and Social Systems Research Section
- Global Resource Sustainability Research Section
- Material Cycles Science and Engineering Research Section
- Material Cycles Assessment Research Section
- Waste Management Engineering Research Section
- Environmental Emergency Management Office
- International Waste Management Research Administration Office
- 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 environmental pollutants during waste treatment and recycling processes Atsushi TERAZONO Senior Principal Researcher Analysis of material cycle systems in Asia Jun NAKATANI Group Leader, Research Collaboration Group Kazuto ENDO Head, Wastes and Material Cycles Research Section, Fukushima Regional Collaborative Research Center Research on stabilization and mass transfer of landfill site Masahiro OSAKO Fellow Comprehensive studies on material cycles and waste management Aika TAYAMA 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 Kosuke KAWAI Senior Researcher Design and evaluation of solid waste management in depopulation and aging society Ryo TAJIMA Senior Researcher Planning and management for integrated waste management Aya YOSHIDA Senior Researcher Sustainable lifestyle, low carbon lifestyle Afif Faiq MUHAMAD Research Associate System analysis on governance for establishing resilient and effective material cycle systems Haruhisa YAMAMOTO Research Associate Model development and scenario analysis of municipal solid waste flows, and analysis of the disposal of durable goods * Family name is fully capitalized.
- Global Resource Sustainability Research Section
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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 Kenichi NAKAJIMA Chief Senior Researcher Material circulation design and evaluation for sustainable resource management Ryu KOIDE Senior Researcher Integrated research of industrial ecology and policy sciences for transition towards decarbonized and circular economy Takuma WATARI Researcher Development and application of global material cycle models Guochang XU Research Associate Jacob FRY Research Associate * Family name is fully capitalized.
- Material Cycles Science and Engineering Research Section
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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 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. Yusuke TAKAHASHI Research Associate Analysis of degradation behavior of microplastics in biogas facilities Yemei LI Research Associate Jiang WU Research Associate Transformation of harmful substances and bio-gas conversion in the system of negative emission technologies * Family name is fully capitalized.
- Material Cycles 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 Chief 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 Senior Researcher Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances: their waste identification and characterization Yuka OGATA Senior Researcher System for appropriate landfill management Yueyuan ZHAO Research Associate Mitali NAG Research Associate Yuto YOSHIDA Research Assistant Naoki GOTO Collaborative Researcher * Family name is fully capitalized.
- Waste Management Engineering Research Section
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Name * Job Title Main Research Theme Masato YAMADA Head Science and technology for landfill Tomonori ISHIGAKI Prime Senior Researcher Technology and system for appropriate waste management Yoshitaka EBIE Manager, International Coordination Office, Planning Division Development of appropriate management system for liquid waste Hiroyuki ISHIMORI Senior Researcher Long-term environmental safety evaluation for waste landfill sites and recycled material-used sites PAYOMTHIP Panida Research Associate * Family name is fully capitalized.
- Environmental Emergency Management Office
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Name * Job Title Main Research Theme Ryo TAJIMA Senior Researcher Planning and management for integrated waste management Masahiro OSAKO Fellow Comprehensive studies on material cycles and waste management Afif Faiq MUHAMAD Research Associate System analysis on governance for establishing resilient and effective material cycle systems Koji OTSUKA Specialist Junko MORISHIMA Disaster Waste Management Information & Publicity Expert * Family name is fully capitalized.
- International Waste Management Research Administration Office
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Name * Job Title Main Research Theme Tomonori ISHIGAKI Prime Senior Researcher Technology and system for appropriate waste management Koji OTSUKA Specialist Tami AOKI Specialist * Family name is fully capitalized.
