Biography

I am an Associate Professor of Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University. I am also an Adjunct Professor Research Center for Social Systems, Interdisciplinary Cluster for Cutting Edge Research, Shinshu University. Before that, I was a Lecturer of Institute of Decision Science for a Sustainable Society at Kyushu University, Faculty of Economics and Law at Shinshu University, and an Associate Professor of Research Institute for Humanity and Nature. From 2009 - 2011, I was a visiting research fellow at Integrated Sustainability Analysis, the University of Sydney. I received my Ph.D. in 2014 from Tohoku University. I have published 40 refereed articles in journals including Nature, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature Geoscience, Nature Communications, PNAS, and these articles have received more than 10,000 citations, 30 h-index, and 50 i10-index in Google Scholar Citations and 5,000 citations in Web of Science. My research results have been used for KPMG, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, the European Commission, OECD, UN, IMF, and World Bank. My main research interests are in industrial ecology, corporate sustainability, computational sustainability, environmental economics, input-output economics, and networks. I developed Eora multi-region input-output database with Manfred Lenzen, Daniel Moran, and Arne Geschke. I am a member of the editorial board of Journal of Environmental Management. In 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023, I was named a Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Cross-Field by Clarivate Analytics. In 2022, I received The Young Scientists’ Award from the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.