Faculty and Researchers

Environment, Civil Engineering, and Architecture

Environmental Science

An introduction to faculty staff members and laboratories in the Environmental Science.
Note: Information on the laboratories is current as of the 2024 academic year. There may be changes to this information in the 2025 academic year.

OTSUKA Teppei

Position
Professor
Laboratory
Advanced Energy Environment Application Laboratory
Materials science for energy, Science and technology for hydrogen isotopes, Transport phenomena of elements in materials, Irradiation effects on materials

The research interests are safety confinement, storage and handling of hydrogen isotopes and radioactive elements in materials. Experiments and simulation on transport phenomena of elements in materials and interactions of radiation and materials are conducted.

MATSUI Kazuaki

Position
Professor
Laboratory
Environmental Biological Science Laboratory
Urban Microbial Ecology, Human Impacts on Microbial Ecosystems

We are working on a variety of research projects to understand the urban aquatic microbial ecosystems. Our current interest is the dynamics and distribution of bacterial heavy metal and antibiotic resistance genes in urbanized environment. We also try to elucidate the quantitative relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning with microbes.