Our Program

Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo

B.S. in Department of Chemical Systems Engineering, The University of Tokyo in 1999, M.S. in Chemical Systems Engineering, Graduated School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo in 2001, Ph.D. in Chemical Systems Engineering, Graduated School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo in 2004.

Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2003-2005), Project Lecturer, School of Engineering The University of Tokyo (2009-2012), Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School of Innovation Management (2012-2016), Associate Professor, School of Environment and Society, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2016-2017), Professor, Integrated Research System for Sustainability Science, The University of Tokyo (2018-2019).

Currently, Professor, School of Environment and Society, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2017- ), Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo (2019- ).
Specialized in technology management, science, technology and innovation(STI), sustainability, and chemical engineering.
Managed the RISTEX Science for Policy Program, the Kajikawa Project twice in 2013 and 2016. Contributed to various program activities included POLICYDOOR.

I look forward to seeing the formation of projects that take up STI policies head-on, working on them, and trying to produce results as well as hands-on support for researchers and policy makers.

The program is expected to promote an essential understanding of what STI policies are, what they encompass, how to maximize the effectiveness of these policies, and what and how to create innovation from individual STI projects as well as to develop methodologies for their implementation. These will be realized through the construction of comprehensive and actionable science, and through the networks and communities that are formed through a series of research and practice activities. We hope that the participants and collaborators in this program will collaborate beyond the framework of this program toward the realization of STI.

POLICYDOOR：Enhancing Japan's Capacity for Innovation: Can We Save the " Setting Sun" by Creating What Doesn't Exist Today?
Action research using information technology to realize innovation (PJ adopted in 2013)
Research on the description and interpretation of evidence in the policy process (PJ adopted in FY 2016)