members
Dr. TAKANO Toshiyuki, Professor
- April 2001- Associate Professor
- April 2009- current position
Main research subjects:
- Chemistry of woody biomass (cellulose/hemicellulose/lignin/extracted components)
- Chemical processing of wood
- Chitin/chitosan derivatives
- Search and use of tropical rare forest products
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Dr. TERAMOTO Yoshikuni, Associate Professor (for more details)
- 2005–2008 Research Scientist; National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan), Biomass Technology Research Center
- 2008–2013 Assistant Professor; Division of Forest and Biomaterials Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University (Japan)
- 2013–2019 Associate Professor; Course of Applied Life Science, Faculty of Applied Biological Sciences, Gifu University (Japan)
- 2016 Visiting Scholar; Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University (Canada)
- 2019–present Associate Professor; Division of Forest and Biomaterials Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University (Japan)
Main research subjects:
- Functional materials of nanocellulose and nanochitin
- Proposal of new evaluation methods for biomass composite systems (WPC and wood itself)
- Higher-order structure design and functional materials of cellulose derivatives
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Dr. BING Xie, Assistant Professor
December 2023 –Mission Research Fellow, Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University
April 2025 – Current position
Main research subjects:
- Development of innovative reaction systems for biomass conversion based on green chemistry
- Reaction pathway design for lignin valorization
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PostDoc
Bapan Adak (JSPS Fellow)
PhD course
Shin Tanahashi
Soubani Baidya
Master’s course
9 students
Undergraduate
4 students