Challenge to the global Problems of “food” and “Energy”

AY2019

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Message
TUAT is a university with distinctive emphasis/focus on
education and research in the respective andinterdisciplinary fields of agriculture and engineering,which form the foundation of industry nowadays. Under
our third medium-term objectives/plan, “to achieve
competitive research capabilities on a global level”, we
aim to play a major role to lead Japan to the world.
We believe our distinctive strengths will enable us toPresident
Prof. Hiroyuki Ohno

create unique and new forms of knowledge, as well as
driving globalization of our cutting edge research in theboth fields.

バイオマス生産
生物多様性保全

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research capabilities on a global level” , TUAT
reorganized the Global Innovation Research
Organization into the Institute of Global Innovation๐༾ଞ੄Քே఑੢၍ଞ੄Research(GIR). We facilitate international collaborative

research in the three priority area of “Food” , “Energy”
and “Life Science” and endeavor to enhance the further
globalization of younger researchers.

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GIR DeanProf. HidehiroKamiya
健康LED

We will make further contribution to fortify theuniversity's capability and to build the foundation for theuniversity system reform.

Approaches
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) was selected by the Japanese
government as one of the 12 national universities rapidly promoting global research in 2014. In
exploiting our advantages in the agriculture and engineering fields, and as an initiative toenhance our research capabilities, we established the Global Innovation Research Organizationin June 2014 to further our goals as a research university. In 2016, it was reorganized as theInstitute of Global Innovation Research (GIR), a new research institution at the graduate school.
In 2018, for further enhancement, the GIR has formed a research group in each three key
areas and Strategic Research Initiative for Interdisciplinary Fields consisting of researchers who
has 3-year experience in strategic research teams.
At the GIR, we prioritize research in three key areas: "food," "energy," and "life science" whichconstitute an interdisciplinary area between agriculture and engineering fields. We aim to boost
the number of international joint research efforts and internationally co-authored papers,
creating advanced innovative results for themes with a high social demand in the key areas.

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Food is one of the critical challenges that the international community is currently
facing. Particularly, food shortages afflict many people living mainly in theAsia-Pacific region. “Food” as a priority theme encompasses both food productionand environmental science to solve these issue.
Food Group

Dr. Sato

Dr. John Ralph

Dr. Hisashi Koiwa

Dr. Wout Boerjan

Takashi Gomi Team

Naoko Ohtsu TeamÀӨResearch and development of green infrastructure for resilientÀӨResearch of cultivation techniques using biological interaction torural areas

Dr. Gomi

Dr. Roy C. Sidle

Dr. Lee H.
MacDonald

ensure maximum yeild under nutrient deficiency and environmental
stress caused by global change

Dr. Ohtsu

Dr. Gary Stacey Dr. Rowan F. Sage

Dr. Sonoko
Bellingrath-Kimura

Koki Toyoda TeamGen Watanabe TeamÀ Development of soil evaluation systems for environmentally friendlyÀӨInvestigation of wildlife to evaluate effects of microplastics

sustainable corp production

contamination on global ecosystem

Dr. Toyoda

Dr. Karl Ritz

Dr. Watanabe

Dr. Roland Perry

Dr. David Crews

Dr. Andrea Gore

Dr. John Godwin

Taishi Umezawa Team

Shinsuke Koike TeamÀ Functional and biochemical interactions between abiotic and biotic

ÀӨResearches on biodiversity-friendly and sustainable naturalstress responses in plants

resource management in terrestrial ecosystems.

Dr. Umezawa

Dr. Scott C. PeckDr. JeﬀreyAnderson

Dr. Vojislava Grbic

Dr. KoikeDr. Tatsuya Amano Dr. AndreasZedrosser

Kenta Umebayashi TeamÀӨDevelopment of reliable and secure information and communications

infrastructure for Network Robot

Dr. Umebayashi Dr. Giulio Sandini

Dr. Antti Tölli Dr. Janne Lehtomäki

Dr. Sam Steyaert

Energy
Energy issues should be considered to be a great challenge facing humanity.
“Energy” as a priority theme addresses energy problems according to theapplicaiton of capacitors, LED, ionicliquids, and smart green mobility.
Energy GroupDr. Tanaka

Dr. MichalBo㶛kowskiDr. Chris Bowler

Dr. Dana Kulic

Toshio Ogasawara TeamYoichi Tominaga TeamÀӨDevelopment of next generation ultra-light mobility

ÀӨDevelopment of polymeric materials for flexible energy

conversion/storage devices

Dr. Ogasawara

Dr. FrédéricBarlatDr. Yannis
Korkolis

Dr. Sam
Coppieters

Dr. Tominaga

Dr. Jusef
HassounDr. Suwabun
Chirachanchai

Dr. Xiangbing
Zeng

Akihiko Terada Team

Atsushi Arakaki TeamÀӨA new nitrogen management system in water/wastewaterÀӨUnderstanding and application of regulation mechanisms oftreatment

Dr. Terada

Dr. Barth Smets

Dr. Kartick
Chandran

Dr. SusanneLackner

hardness and toughness of biological hard materials

Dr. Arakaki

Dr. David Kisailus

Dr. Yasuo
Yoshikuni

Strategic Research Initiative for Interdisciplinary
Without being confined to a single field, TUAT’ s excellent researchers from different
fields of research are gathered here to propose and to promote new and innovative

research with unprecedented ideas by fusing areas of expertise that go beyond
academic majors.
Katsuhiko Naoi TeamÀӨHarmony between environment and energy: Energy facilitator

leading to the future society

Dr. Naoi

Dr. Patrice
Simon

Dr. Patrick
RozierDr. Bruce Dunn

Life Science
Life science has a significant impact on our health and well-being. “Life Science”
as a priority theme pushes and precedes the edge of technical possibility, mainly inprotein synthesis and life science.
Life Science Group

Dr. Yoshida

Dr. Hiroaki
Matsunami

Dr. FlorianGrundler

Dr. Yoshifumi Itoh

Tetsuya Mizutani TeamKenji Ogino TeamÀӨResearch on emerging viral infectious diseases outbreaks in theÀӨDevelopment of functional nano-capsules and materials for drugnear future

Dr. Mizutanidelivery systems and other applications

Dr. Shinji Makino

Dr. Christopher
Buck

Dr. Monirul MdIslam

Dr. Ogino

Dr. Guanghui Ma

Dr. Aibing Yu

Dr. Sanjay Mathur

Toshihisa Tanaka TeamKazunori Ikebukuro TeamÀ Development of AI Technologies for Biomedical Informatics and its

ÀӨDevelopment of analytical method for CpG methylation ofApplications

genomic DNA based on its structural change

Dr. Tanaka

Dr. Andrzej
Cichocki

Dr. Antonio
OrtegaDr. Fabien Lotte

Dr. Ikebukuro

Dr. RichardSimpson

Dr. Koji Sode

Dr. Manbock Gu

Yoshiyuki Tagawa Team

Kentaro Nagaoka TeamÀ International Research Center for Dynamic Interfacial Mechanics

À Implication of breast milk and gut microbiota on maternal-infant- development of the biomaterial 3D printing technology -Dr. Tagawa

Dr. XuehuaZhang

Dr. Jose Gordillo Dr. John W.M. Bushcommunication for growing up healthy

Dr. Nagaoka

Dr. Lief Andersson

Kyosuke Shinohara TeamÀӨDevelopment of organelle targeting system for solving biomedical

issues: From phase separated proteins to small chemical compounds.

Dr. Shinohara

Dr. Takanari
Inoue

Dr. Micha Fridman Dr. Naoki
Yamanaka

Dr. Hirohito
Yamaguchi

Dr. Wanzhu Zin

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Institute of Global Innovation Support Section
Research Promotion Office, Research Support Office
3-8-1 Harumi-cho, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo 183-8538
TEL: 042-367-5646
E-mail: giri@cc.tuat.ac.jp
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