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He received his Ph.D. from the Muroran Institute of Technology (Japan) in 2011, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the same university. Then, he joined Prof. Takeshi Endo’s research group in 2015, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Molecular Engineering at Kindai University (2015-2019) and an assistant professor at the Institute of Molecular Engineering in Kyushu Institute of Technology (2019-2020). He has been an Associate Professor at the Kyushu Institute of Technology since 2020. His research interests are sustainable polymeric materials such as chemical recycling, self-healing, and shape-memory polymers. 

After earning her Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry from the Faculty of Engineering at Kyoto University in January 2004, she joined Kyushu Institute of Technology as an assistant professor in March of the same year. She was promoted to Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology in 2020, a position she holds to this day. She received  an award (Encouragement of Polymer Research) from The Society of Polymer Science, Japan in 2007. She serves as a menber of board of directors of The Clay Science Socierty of Japan. Based on polymer chemistry and colloid chemistry, her research focuses on assembling microscopic structures (such as cellulose nanoparticles and clay mineral nanoparticles) to create macroscopic structures.

He received his Ph.D. from the Hokkaido University (Japan) in March 2007.  Then, he was appointed as an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology in April 2007, and he was promoted to an assistant professor at the same school in November 2012.  In April 2020, he became an associate professor at the Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, and he was promoted to professor at the same school in January 2023.  He is developing spectroscopic systems as well as photofunctional materials such as photocatalysts. 

He received his Ph.D. in Engineering from Doshisha University in March 2018 and joined the Doshisha University Research and Development Center for Advanced Composite Materials as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in April of the same year. He served as an Assistant Professor at Kanagawa University (April 2019– March 2022) and Fukuoka University (April 2022– March 2024). Since April 2024, he has been an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at Kyushu Institute of Technology. His research focuses on manufacturing process of polymer and polymer composite, particularly on elucidating structure formation mechanisms during processing and controlling material properties through process design.

Hereceived his Ph.D in Engineering from the Department of Quantum Process Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kyushu University in 2015, he was appointed as a specially appointed associate professor at the Kyushu Institute of Technology's Frontier Research Academy for Young Researchers in the same year. After serving as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology in April 2020, he was promoted to associate professor in November 2023, where he remains today. He is engaged in research on crystal growth and doping techniques for wide-bandgap semiconductors as environmentally resistant electrical and electronic materials.

After earning a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Tokyo in 2009, he conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. In July 2010, he joined the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Kyushu University as an assistant professor. In January 2017, he was promoted to lecturer at the same institution, and in April 2023, he moved to the Graduate School of Engineering at Kyushu Institute of Technology as an associate professor. Based on environmentally benign organic synthesis chemistry, he is developing efficient methods for synthesizing organic compounds using computational chemistry and cheminformatics.

He received his Ph.D. in Engineering from the Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, in 2020. In April of the same year, he joined the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, as an Assistant Professor. His research focuses on functional materials for environmental and energy applications. He uses first-principles calculations and machine learning-based simulations to explore and design new materials and to understand how their physical properties emerge.

Dr. Shunsuke Yamada received his Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 2019. He worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Waseda University in 2019 and was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Robotics, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University in 2020. Since 2024, he has been serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology. His research focuses on the design of functional ionic materials based on intermolecular interactions, with particular emphasis on biodegradable bio-iontronics enabled by supramolecular ionic gels and transient electronics.

Completed the Graduate School of Kagoshima University in March 2009. Joined Fuji Electric Advanced Technology Co., Ltd. in April of the same year. Appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology in April 2013, a position he holds to this day. Completed the Doctoral Program at the Graduate School of Kagoshima University in March 2016. Ph.D. (Engineering). From May 2018 to April 2019, conducted overseas research at WEMPEC (Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Primarily engaged in research on inverter-driven electric motors.