MEMBER_CATEGORIES: ENERGY

Sugiyama Masahiro

Masahiro Sugiyama is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Future Initiatives(IFI), the University of Tokyo. He holds a Ph.D. in climate science and a master’s degree in technology and policy, both from MIT. Prior to joining PARI, he was a researcher at the Socio-Economic Research Center, the Central Research Institute of the Electric Power Industry. He joined PARI in April, 2014. An expert on global warming, he has worked on various topics related with climate change, ranging from energy efficiency in global scenarios to citizens’ views on climate geoengineering. His works have been published in various academic journals, including Nature(http://doi.org/10.1038/531029a).

Baba Jumpei

He received a Ph.D in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo in　2001.
He joined Tokyo Univesity of Science as an assistant in 2001, and joined the University of Tokyo as an assistant in 2003.
He was appointed as a lecturer in 2005, and has been an associate professor from 2006.
He is a member of IEEE, IEEJ, IEIEJ and CSSJ.
His main interest is power electronics, power systems, energy storage systems and renewable energy sources.

Komiyama Ryoichi

Ryoichi Komiyama obtained a Ph.D. degree of electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo in 2003. He served as senior researcher in Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ), research associate in the University of Tokyo and present position since 2022. His fields of research are energy system modeling and analysis.

Sakata Ichiro

Dr.Ichiro Sakatawas born in 1966.
He is Professor, former Head of the Department of Technology Management for Innovation (TMI)　and Director of Innovation Policy Research Center, the Institute of Engineering Innovation at Faculty of Engineering, the University of Tokyo (UTokyo).
He also has a joint appointment as special advisor to the president of UTokyo and Head of Vison Formation Group of Future Society Initiative (FSI).
From 2014-2016, he served as Director of the Policy Alternatives Research Institute, UTokyo. He received his BA at UTokyo (1989), MA at Brandeis University (1997) and Ph.D. at UTokyo (2003).
In addition to research and education activities in the UTokyo, he is co-Head of the Advanced Bio Carbon (ABC) consortium and Head of Development Project of the Future Prediction Platform from Large-scale Literature Data (NEDO and AIST).
He has twenty years’ working experience in the field of science and innovation policy.
He is a Special Advisor to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, and special member for the Land Council of Japanese Government.
He also worked for the Tohoku reconstruction as a Special Advisor to the Minister of Reconstruction.
He has published over one hundred and fifty papers in variety of research fields including innovation management, technological forecasting, computational social science, nano-technology and sustainability science.

His selected recent publications include “Five years on from Fukushima”, Nature vol.531(2016) pp29-31, “Cellulose nanofiber backboned Prussian blue nanoparticles as powerful adsorbents for the selective elimination of radioactive cesium”, Scientific reports6(2016): 37009, and “Detecting trends in academic research from a citation network using network representation learning”, PLOS One 13(5) (2018): e0197260.

Yoshikawa Hisashi

Hisashi Yoshikawa is a Project Professor of the Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo, and also belongs to the Institute for Future Initiatives. Before he started to work in the University in September 2011, he worked both in the International Energy Agency (IEA) as Senior Advisor for Long-Term Policy and in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as Deputy Director of the Directorate of Science, Technology and Industry (STI). He also worked in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of the Japanese Government and held director positions including Director of the Service Affairs Policy Division and Director of the Petroleum Distribution Division. His interests include policy planning and implementation, particularly in the field of energy. He received his master’s degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, in 1987 and a BA in law from the University of Tokyo in 1981. He works as Advisor for the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) and Senior Research Fellow of the Canon Institute for Global Strategy (CIGS).