CV: Kentaro Umeki

2015 May Docent (equivalent to habilitation or D.Sc.) in Energy Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden

2010 Mar PhD in Environmental Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Dissertation "Modelling and simulation of biomass gasification with high temperature steam in an updraft fixed-bed gasifier"
Supervisor: Prof. Kunio Yoshikawa.

2007 Mar Master of Engineering, Environmental Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Thesis "Hydrogen-rich Gas Production from Solid Wastes by High Temperature Steam Gasification Process"

2005 Mar Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical and Intelligent System Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Thesis "Soft Mechanism that Realizes the Dynamical Interaction between the Environment and the Body Dynamics - Mechanism and control methods for biped robot to kick the ground" 

Mar 2019 - Professor at the Division of Energy Science, Luleå University of Technology 

Jan 2015 - Research coordinator of thermochemical conversion area (3PIs) at the Division of Energy Science, LTU

 Mar 2012 - Laboratory manager, ECO-lab, Div. Energy Science, Luleå University of Technology

 May 2015 - Feb 2019 Associate professor at Division of Energy Science, Luleå University of Technology 

 Apr 2014 - Oct 2016 Node coordinator for Bio4Gasification, management group of Swedish Centre for Biomass Gasification (SFC)

 May 2011 -Apr 2015 Assistant professor at Division of Energy Science, Luleå University of Technology

Apr 2010 - Apr 2011 Postdoctoral researcher at Royal Institute of Technology(KTH), Sweden

Apr 2010 - Apr 2011 Fellow of Canon Foundation in Europe 

Apr 2008 - Mar 2010 Research fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Research stays

Apr-May 2019 Institute of heat and mass transfer, RWTH Aachen University, Germany (3 weeks) 

Oct-Nov 2011 Dept. Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Australia (6 weeks)

Jun 2008 - Apr 2009 Royal Institute of Technology(KTH), Sweden (9 months)

2007-2009 Korean Institute of Machinery and Materials (5 months in total; May-Jul 2007; Oct-Nov 2007; Aug-Sep 2008; Apr-May 2009)

2018 Supervisor of the year (årets handledare), PhD student union, Luleå University of Technology 

2016 Gunna Öquist Fellow, Kempe Foundation

2015 Innovative young researcher prize, Norrbotten Research Council 

2013 Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing, Fuel Processing Technology (Elsevier Inc.) 

2011 Best reviewers award, Applied Energy (Elsevier Inc.)

2010-2011 Research fellowship, Canon Foundation in Europe

2009 Best paper award, 6th International Conference on Fluid and Thermal Energy Conversions

2008-2010 Research fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

2017- Subject assistant editor, Applied Energy, Elsevier Inc. (IF=8.426)

 2017- Thematic area leader for fuel conversion, Swedish Center for Biomass Gasification

 2015- Board member, Swedish Flame Research Committee, Swedish branch of International Flame Research Federation (IFRF)

 2015- Chairman, Swedish Flame Research Committee scholarship for best MSc thesis in combustion and energy engineering

 2020 Co-guest editor, Clean fuel conversion, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (IF=12.110)

 2020 Guest editor, Thermochemical conversion of biomass and waste, Energies (IF=2.702)

 2014-16 Member of management Group of Swedish Centre for Biomass Gasification, as a node leader for Bio4Gasification (one of three nodes representing entrained-flow reactor)

 2012-15 Representative of thermochemical platform, Bio4Energy Graduate School Task Force, Luleå University of Technology /Umeå University /Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Reviewers for peer-reviewed journals (approx. once a month)

• • Application in Energy and Combustion Science

  • Applied Energy

  • Applied Thermal Engineering

  • Biomass and Bioenergy

  • Bioresource Technology

  • Chemical Engineering Journal

  • Chemical Engineering Science

  • Combustion and Flame

  • Energy and Fuels

  • Fuel

  • Fuel Processing Technology

  • Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

  • International Journal of Energy Research

  • Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis

  • Journal of Chemical Engineering of Japan

  • Proceeding of the Combustion Institute

  • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

  • Sustainable Energy & Fuels

  • Thermochemica Acta

Reviewer for international conferences

• • International Conference on Applied Energy 2011

  • Nordic Flame Days 2017

  • Intentaional Symposium of Chemical Reaction Engineering (ISCRE25), 2018

Member of PhD examination board/Opponent

• • Dr. Elvin David Gordillo, University de La Rochelle, France, 2011

  • Dr. Pencheng Ye, Luleå University of Technology, 2016

  • Dr. Matthias Kuba, TU Wien (Technical University of Vienna), Austria, 2016 (external reviewer)

  • Dr. Katarina Åberg, Umeå University, 2017

  • Dr. Huong N. T. Nguyen, Chalmers University of Technology, 2017

  • Dr. Mario Morgalla, Linnaeus University, 2018

  • Dr. Inge Haberle, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway, 2018 (opponent)

  • Dr. Thommie Nilsson, Lund University, 2019

  • Dr. Eyerusalem Deresse Birru, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2019

  • Dr. Rikard Edlund, Chalmers University of Technology, 2019

  • Dr. Lars Schwarzer, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark, 2019 (opponent, international scientist)

  • Dr. Tilia Dahou, Université Grenoble Alpes, France 2019 (Rapporteur)

  • Dr. Wubin Weng, Lund University, 2020

  • Dr. Devy Kartika Ratnasari, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2021

  • Dr. Tahereh Jalalabadi, The University of Newcastle, Australia, 2021

  • Dr. Yaxin Ge, University of Gothenburg, 2022

  • Dr. Morteza Mousavi , Lund University, 2022

  • Dr. Prakash Aryal, Monash University, 2023

  • Dr. Julie Michel, niversité Grenoble Alpes, France 2023

Discussion leader for licentiate thesis defence

• • Adam Jareteg, Chalmers University of Technology, 2020

Referee for VTT publication series: A. Moilanen and M. Nasrullah, VTT publication 769, November 2011

Book proposals

• • Elsevier Inc.

  • CRC press

Research funding - scientific councils

• • The Chilean National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT), Chile

  • The Icelandic Research Fund, The Icelandic Centre for Research, Iceland

  • PRIN, The Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR), Italy

  • The Leverhulme Trust, UK

  • A Users Selection Panel (USP) for BRISK2, Biofuels Research Infrastructure for Sharing Knowledge (H2020 project)

Session chairs for international conferences

• International Conference on Applied Energy (2014, 2018)

• 14th International Congress on Combustion By-Products and Their Health Effects

• Nordic Flame Days (2015, 2017)

• 2nd International workshop on Oxy-Fuel Combustion

WO/2019/093949: Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass, by  Erik Furusjö, Kentaro Umeki, Rikard Gebart, Lars Stigsson

JP/2010/47719: Tar removal method and facility, by Kuni Yoshikawa, Kentaro Umeki, Kouichi Yamamoto