December 12 (Mon.) 14:40-15:40 Energy and Sustainability
Chair
SHICHIJO Naohiro
WIAS Alumnus, Professor, Vice Director, Center for the Promotion of Social Data Science Education and Research, Hitotsubashi University
Research Field：Innovation, Science and technology policy
Prof. Shichijo graduated from the Department of Mathematics in the Faculty of Science at the University of Tokyo in March 1994. After graduation, he entered Graduate School of Engineering at the same university and earned a Ph.D (Engineering) in 1999. In 2000, he started his academic career as an assistant when the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies was established. Following that, he engaged education programs in innovation research and the digital contents field as a specially appointed associate professor and associate professor. In 2010, he became an associate professor at Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS), and in 2012 joined the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) as a senior research fellow. He was involved in planning and implementing the 10th Science and Technology Foresight. In 2016, he became a professor at Tokyo University of Technology and director of Center of Institutional Research, and subsequently took up his current position in 2020. His research area encompasses understanding complex phenomena through a data-driven approach on topics ranging from advanced materials to university and corporate R&D, science and technology policy, foresight, and the animation production process.
Speakers
GIANNETTI Niccolo
Associate Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University
Research Field：Thermal Engineering
Niccolo Giannetti is an Associate Professor at Waseda Institute for Advanced Study. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Florence, Italy, and earned his doctoral degree at Waseda University, Japan. His research spans across the study of thermal systems from the fundamental modelling of transport phenomena to the optimization of components, systems, and control strategies. His major contributions are related to the development of a new theoretical framework of these systems based on the variational principles of nonequilibrium thermodynamics, the incorporation of such numerical models within new evolutionary algorithms for component optimization, and the consequent training of artificial intelligence for effective performance monitoring techniques and self-learning control. He aims at integrating these techniques for decarbonizing thermal energy management.
JU Yiyi
Assistant Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University
Research Field：Environmental Policy
JU Yiyi currently works as an assistant professor at Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS), Waseda University, focusing on the modeling of industry technologies in the energy-economic and integrated assessment models in Asia. Before joining WIAS she worked as a project researcher in the Institute for Future Initiatives(IFI), University of Tokyo, during 2019-2021, where she mainly contributed to the IAM inter-comparison project EMF35. She specifically focused on the industrial decarbonization in Japan. Her Ph.D. in International Development (environmental economics) is obtained from Nagoya University in 2019.
MORRIS James
Assistant Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University
Research Field：History of the Orient
James Harry Morris is an Assistant Professor at Waseda University’s Institute for Advanced Study. His research focuses on the history of Christianity in Japan, Christian-Muslim relations in East Asia, and religious and academic thought in the Meiji period. His work has been published in leading journals in these fields including The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Missiology: An International Review and Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations. Morris served as Editor-in-Chief for an online digital humanities magazine, The Digital Orientalist (ISSN: 2772-8374), between 2019 and 2021, and continues to serve on its managerial and editorial boards. His current research projects focus on the history of Christian-Muslim relations in East Asia and religious responses to the Ashio Copper Mine incident.
MORTHA Aline
PhD Student, Graduate School of Economics, Waseda University
Research Field：Environmental economics
Mortha Aline is currently a PhD candidate at the Graduate School of Economics in Waseda University. Mortha graduated from Sciences Po Paris (France) and Keio University (Japan). Mortha’s main research interests are energy economics and climate change policy and applied microeconometrics, and is currently studying the effects of various environmental policies on the Japanese manufacturing sector.
