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Energy Sciences

Mission of the Department of Energy Sciences

The recent rapid increase in energy consumption due to human activities is thought to be causing abrupt changes in the environment, such as global warming. No human activity would be possible without involving the transfer, conversion and utilization of energy. However, learning from our disorderly massive consumption of energy in the past, we must develop an eco-friendly and sustainable portfolio of technologies for secure energy future, including the exploration of diverse and clean energy sources, as well as energy systems that minimize the environmental load, as the essential parts.

In order to address energy challenges, such as diversification of energy sources, high efficiency of energy utilization, energy consumption with sustainable environmental effects, and international contributions in energy technologies, we need interdisciplinary studies across many different fields as well as research that cover areas from the basics through to application and development.
The mission of the Department of Energy Sciences is to cultivate creative researchers and engineers with advanced knowledge and wide-ranging insight, who can survey the global environmental and social systems from the viewpoint of energy and tackle various energy issues.

Characteristics and Organization

Energy related problems are closely intertwined with environment and resource issues, food and population issues, and political and economic issues. Therefore, the examination of energy issues from a very broad perspective is an absolute necessity. It needs hardly be said that we cannot cope with these issues solely through existing compartmentalized fields of study. The Department of Energy Sciences is comprised of such interdisciplinary fields as physics, chemistry, mechanics, electricity, and material engineering, and aims to create a leading-edge field of study which can address these issues from many directions.

The Department of Energy Sciencess has Fundamental Chairs, which consist of full-time teaching staff of the department and collaborative teaching staff who belong to external collaborative research laboratories, and Cooperative Chairs and other Chairs that consist of teaching staff from other departments of Tokyo Institute of Technology. The Department of Energy Sciencess also works, in order to advance education and research, with other organizations of the Tokyo Institute of Technology such as the Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors and the Interdisciplinary Graduate School, and external research organizations, such as the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Toshiba Corporation's Power and Industrial Systems Research and Development Center. The curriculum is designed in such a way that talented teaching staff and students from a wide range of fields in physical science and engineering gather at the department so that students can acquire abilities for examining energy-related challenges from the viewpoint of physical science and solving problems using the knowledge of the engineer. Moreover, students can get study guidance from more than one member of the teaching staff, and can receive either a science or engineering degree according to their choice.

KOHNO TOSHIYUKI
Post	Professor
Post	Professor
Keywords	Elementary Particles Physics Nuclear Physics Cosmic Ray Physics and Cosmic Physics Radiation Physics Atomic Physics
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OKAMURA TETSUJI
Post	Professor
Post	Professor
Keywords	Cryogenic Engineering Engineering of Superconductivity Energy Science General
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NAGASAKI TAKAO
Post	Professor
Post	Associate Professor
Keywords	Thermal Engineering Phase-change heat transfer Numerical heat transfer and fluid flow
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XIAO FENG
Post	Professor
Post	Associate Professor
Keywords	Fluid Mechanics Meteorology Oceanography and Hydrology Computer Science
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HASEGAWA YASUO
Post	Professor
Post	Visiting Professor
Keywords	Energy conversion engineering Distributed energy system Energy network
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FUJII TAKASHI
Post	Professor
Post	Visiting Professor
Keywords	laser spectroscopy plasma aplication plasma physics discharge high energy particle
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KURIYAMA TOHRU
Post	Professor
Post	Visiting Professor
Keywords	Applied superconductivity LTS magnets HTS conductors HTS magnets
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OKUNO YOSHIHIRO
Post	Professor
Post	Professor
Keywords	Electric Power Engineering/Electric Equipment Engineering Plasma Science Energy Studies
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OKINO AKITOSHI
Post	Professor
Post	Associate Professor
Keywords	Environmental/medical application of plasma Plasma spectroscopy New atmospheric plasma sources
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WAKI KEIKO
Post	Professor
Post	Associate Professor
Keywords	Inorganic Materials and Properties
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HORIOKA KAZUHIKO
Post	Professor
Post	Professor
Keywords	Plasma Science General Applied Physics Nuclear Fusion Studies
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HOTTA EIKI
Post	Professor
Post	Professor
Keywords	Plasma Science and Technology Electric Power Engineering and Electrical Machinery Nuclear Fusion
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HASEGAWA JUN
Post	Professor
Post	Assocate Professor
Keywords	Ion Beam Application Studies Plasma Science High Energy Density Science Heavy Ion Fusion Studies
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KAWAMURA TOHRU
Post	Professor
Post	Associate　Professor
Keywords	Plasma Science Atomic/Molecular/Quantum Electronics Plasma
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TAKAYAMA KEN
Post	Professor
Post	Visiting　Professor
Keywords	Accelerator Science Beam Physics Ion Sources Free-Electron Laser Applications of Ions Debris Rador
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TOMIOKA SADATAKE
Post	Professor
Post	Visiting Associate　Professor
Keywords	Ramjet engine High speed reactive flow Supersonic combustion

MATSUFUJI NARUHIRO
Post	Visiting Professor
Keywords	Heavy Ion Radiotherapy Radiation Quality Radiation Measurement Biological Response Model Clinical Response Model
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AOKI TAKAYUKI
Post	Professor
Post	Professor
Keywords	Supercomputing for Computational Fluid Dynamics Computer Simulation for Natural Disasters Computational Physics GPU Computing
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MATSUMOTO YOSHIHISA
Post	Professor
Post	Associate Professor
Keywords	Radiation/Chemical Substance Influence Science Radiation Science Molecular Biology
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IIO SHUNJI
Post	Professor
Post	Associate Professor
Keywords	Nuclear Fusion Plasma Science and Technology Applied Electromagnetics
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SHIMADA RYUICHI
Post	Professor
Post	Professor
Keywords	Fusion Reactor Plasma Engineering Power Electronics

AKATSUKA HIROSHI
Post	Professor
Post	Associate Professor
Keywords	Plasma Science and Technology Laser Science and Technology Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy Nuclear Power Science
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YABE TAKASHI
Post	Professor
Post	Professor
Keywords	Computational Fluid Dynamics Laser-Driven Microairplane Theoretical Studies on Laser-Matter Interaction

YOSHIKAWA KUNIO
Post	Professor
Post	Professor
Keywords	Heat Engineering Energy Science General Environmental Preservation
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SAITO MASAKI
Post	Professor
Keywords	Non-proliferation science and technology Nuclear safety Plutonium Radioactive waste
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YANO TOYOHIKO
Post	Professor
Post	Professor
Keywords	Inorganic Materials and its Properties Nuclear Fusion Reactor Engineering Composite Materials and its Properties

KANAMORI HIDETO
Post	Professor
Post	Associate Professor
Keywords	Molecules in excited state Cold molecules Phase locking of lasers Ultra high resolution spectroscopy Molecular qubit for quantum computing Atomospheric molecules
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SANEYOSHI KEIJI
Post	Professor
Post	Associate Professor
Keywords	3-Dimensional Image Sensing Nuclear Radiation Physics
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