Program Director and Research Supervisors

The roles of the SATREPS Program Director (PD) and Research Supervisors (As of April 1, 2025)

Program Director (PD)

The Program Director has overall responsibility for management of the SATREPS program. He or she makes policy decisions on the overall thrust of the program, coordinates the different Research Fields and areas, decides on project selection (including conditional selection) and chairs the program committee that deliberates on important matters concerning research project management. The program committee consists of the Program Director, Research Supervisors, and external experts.

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  KOTANI MotokoExecutive Director of Science, RIKEN
  Executive Vice President for International Research Strategy, Tohoku University

Research Supervisors（RS）

Each of the Research Supervisors has overall responsibility for research in a specific research area. He or she joins external experts on the screening committee, acting as either the leader or a member of the committee. The screening committee is a subcommittee of the program committee that decides on candidates for SATREPS projects (including candidates for conditional selection). After projects have been approved (including conditional selection), the Research Supervisors handles the research management for his or her research area by coordinating the research plans of the individual research projects (including plans concerning research costs and composition of the research team), exchanging ideas and views with principal investigators, giving advice concerning the research, conducting project evaluations, and by other means as necessary. The Research Supervisors also gives advice to the collaborating country's researchers.

Environment / Energy (Global-scale environmental issues)

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  OKUBO NorikoProfessor, Graduate School of Law and Politics, The University of Osaka

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  TAKAMURA YukariProfessor, Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo
  Professor Emeritus, Nagoya University

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  YAHARA TetsukazuResearch director, Research section, Kyushu Open University

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  YAMAGUCHI YasushiProfessor Emeritus, Nagoya University

Environment / Energy (Carbon Neutrality)

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  SHIKAZONO NaokiProfessor, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo

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  NAKAIWA MasaruVisiting Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University/
  Emeritus Researcher, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

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  FUJII YasumasaProfessor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo

Bioresources

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  IRIE KenjiDean, Faculty of International Agriculture and Food Studies, Tokyo University of Agriculture

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  NAGAMINE TsukasaFormer Vice-President, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization

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  MASUDA MisaProfessor Emeritus, Tsukuba University

Disaster Prevention and Mitigation

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  ASAEDA TakashiProfessor Emeritus, Saitama University

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  IGUCHI MasatoProfessor Emeritus, Kyoto University

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  TAMURA KeikoProfessor, Risk Management Center, Headquarters for Risk Management, Niigata University

Infectious Diseases Contro

SATREPS projects in the field of Infectious Diseases Control have been transferred to AMED - the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development. (The transfer took place on April 1, 2015. Projects that terminated before that date were not transferred.)