Kokyo Oh
Center for Environmental Science in Saitama, Japan
Prof. Dr. Kokyo Oh is a senior researcher in Center for
Environmental Science in Saitama, Japan. He obtained Ph.D. degree
(soil science) in 1995, and was honored as a research fellow by
Japan Science and Technology Agency (STA) from 1997 to 1999. His
research areas include soil science, environmental conservation,
environmental chemistry and biology, and environmental agronomy. He
has published more than 200 major academic papers, has presided over
and participated in more than 100 scientific research fund projects,
and has been invited to be the chairman of more than 20
international conferences.
Atsushi Matsumura
Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan
Assoc. Prof. Atsushi Matsumura was awarded PhD in Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Kyoto Prefectural University in 2007. Assistant Professor of Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University (2010-2023), and Associate Professor of Graduate School of Agriculture, Osaka Metropolitan University in 2024. Research fields are agronomy (sustainable cropping systems, crop-environment interactions), and soil science (sustainable soil fertility management, soil microbial ecology). Recent research topics include genetic improvement of soybean for low phosphorus tolerance, nitrogen and phosphorus cycles in agricultural soil by green manure introduction, and evaluation of unused resources as a substitute for chemical fertilizers.
Satoshi Soda
Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Prof. Satoshi Soda was born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan in
1972. Awarded MSc and PhD in Engineering from Department of
Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of engineering, Osaka
University in 1997 and 1999, respectively. Assistant Professor of
Department of Global Architecture (1999-2008), and Associate
Professor of Department of Sustainable Energy and Environmental
Engineering, (2008-2017), Graduate School of engineering, Osaka
University.
Professor at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
since 2017, and Associate Fellow of Ritsumeikan Advanced Research
Academy since 2022.
The research focuses on wastewater treatment using bacteria and
aquatic plants. Recent challenging topics are (1) nitrogen removal
from domestic wastewater using simultaneous heterotrophic
denitrification and anammox, (2) activated sludge for excess sludge
reducing using earthworms, (3) algal-bacterial system for removing
LAS and methyl paraben, (4) trickling filters followed by
constructed wetlands with edible plants, (5) constructed wetlands
for removing azo dyes from Batik wastewater, (6) constructed
wetlands for mine drainage treatment in Japan, (7) bioreactors for
removing of antimony from wastewater, (8) growing eelgrass using
magnesium ammonium phosphate recovered from sewage, (9) methane
recovery from rubber seed residue by anaerobic digestion, and (10)
Monitoring of seasonal change of algae and bacteria populations in
an inner lake of Lake Biwa.
Hyunook Kim
University of Seoul, Korea
Dr. Hyunook Kim is Professor at Environmental Engineering,
University of Seoul, Korea, and Director of R&D Center of Core
Technologies for Water Treatment. Professor Kim earned his B.S.
degree in Environmental Science from Yonsei University, Korea in
1994, and an M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering from Johns
Hopkins University in 1997, and a Ph.D. from University of Maryland
at College Park in 2000. Before he joined the faculty member at
University of Seoul in 2002, he worked as Environmental Engineer for
US Dept. of Agriculture, MD, USA.
Professor Kim’s research in the area of water pollution control
includes a number of projects on process control and operation of
water and wastewater treatment plants. Especially he is interested
in monitoring and control of contaminants of emerging concern. He
has published numerous journal papers and made conference
presentations. He has been received a few awards for his academic
and research achievements.