Members

Project members

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  Yusuke KISHITA

  Associate Professor at The University of Tokyo (Project Lead, Sub-theme 1 Lead)

  Yusuke Kishita is Associate Professor at The University of Tokyo. Prior to taking the current position, he worked at Osaka University as Postdoc and Assistant Professor (2011-2014), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) as Research Scientist in 2015, and The University of Tokyo as Lecturer (2016-2020). He served as Guest Researcher at Technische Universität Braunschweig in Germany (August-November 2019) and Visiting Academic Fellow at University of Cambridge in UK (December 2019-February 2020). His research interests include scenario design for sustainability and design of circular economy business. He holds MSc and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Osaka University. He was awarded the Young Scientists’ Prize of the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2019, etc.

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  Koji KIMITA

  Project Associate Professor at The University of Tokyo (Sub-theme 2)

  Koji Kimita is a Project Associate Professor in the Department of Technology Management for Innovation at the University of Tokyo. He is an expert in Circular Economy (CE), Product-Service Systems (PSS), and Servitization, focusing on the development of engineering methods for designing and implementing CE business models. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Tokyo Metropolitan University in 2006, 2008, and 2011, respectively. He was a guest researcher at the Technical University of Denmark.

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  Christian CLEMM

  Project Academic Specialist at The University of Tokyo (Sub-theme 1)

  Christian Clemm is a Project Academic Specialist at the Department of Precision Engineering at the University of Tokyo. His research is in the field of environmentally sustainable and circular technologies, including electronics and circular economy businesses including reuse and sharing models. He focusses on method development including for life cycle assessment (LCA), life cycle engineering (LCE), and the design of circular systems. Before joining UTokyo, he worked at Technische Universität Berlin and Fraunhofer IZM and served as a consultant for UNITAR and the Joint Research Center (JRC). He holds a position as visiting researcher at the National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). He earned a double master's degree from the Universities of Copenhagen and Hohenheim in 2013.

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  Eri AMASAWA

  Associate Professor at Waseda University (Sub-theme 2 Lead)

  Eri Amasawa is an Associate Professor (Tingyui Endowed Chair) at Waseda Center for a Carbon Neutral Society in Waseda University. She also has an affiliation as a Project Associate Professor in the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at The University of Tokyo (UTokyo). Her academic training is in materials science and engineering. She began pursuing her research interest in interdisciplinary field from her PhD, where she completed her PhD in Sustainability Science at UTokyo. She worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical System Engineering at UTokyo from 2017 to 2023. Eri is an expert of life cycle assessment and has a strong interest in understanding changes in consumer behaviour and their environmental implication.

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  Ryu KOIDE

  Senior Researcher at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (Sub-theme 1)

  Ryu Koide is a Senior Researcher at the Material Cycles Division of the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan. His work explores policy and behavioural strategies to advance circular economies and decarbonised lifestyles, employing a combination of agent-based modelling, life cycle assessment, and consumer surveys. Bridging industrial ecology, complexity science, and behavioural science, he focuses on computational and participatory approaches to decision-making under deep uncertainty. His research aims to identify multiple pathways for (un)achieving sustainability targets related to carbon neutrality and circularity. Prior to entering academia, he worked as a consulting engineer in the Global South and as a policy researcher involved in United Nations programmes on sustainable consumption and production. Koide holds a Ph.D. in Technology Management from the University of Tokyo, an M.S. in Government Analytics from Johns Hopkins University, and a B.Eng. in Resources and Environmental Engineering from Waseda University.