PROFESSORS
Hideo Komine, Professor
Geotechnical Engineering, Environmental Geotechnics
  • 1987 Completed Master’s program, Waseda University
  • 1987 Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry
  • 2001 Ibaraki University
  • 2006 Ibaraki University, ICAS
  • 2014 Waseda University

Project themes:
Geotechnical Engineering for Energy Engineering and Construction
Geotechnical Engineering for Creation of a Carbon Capture Urban Environment/Nature-Positive.

Themes of graduation thesis:
High-Level Radioactive Waste Geological Disposal Technology.
Discovery of Carbon Dioxide Fixation Materials and their contribution to CCS.
Nature-Positive and Geotechnical Engineering Explorations.
Geotechnical Applications of ICT technology (e.g., lunar base construction).

Books Patents, etc.:
Experimental and Theoretical Researches on Swelling and Hydraulic Characteristics of Bentonite Material (The Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Prize for Science and Technology, Research Category), Book: Thinking after the Great East Japan Earthquake.

Social activities:
Affiliate Member, Science Council of Japan; Member, JSPS Alumni Club; Chairperson, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Japan Society of Geotechnical Engineers, etc.