Kazuhiro Hayashi has been in Scholarly publishing, in a wide variety of roles, for more than 20 years. At Chemical Society of Japan, he has worked successively as an Editor, a Production Manager, an E-journal Manager, and a Promotions Manager. Covering a broad range of roles in publishing, he is focused on scholarly communication through E-journals, and he has reconstructed and improved the way publishing is managed through his skills involving information technology. He now studies a Science for Science and Innovation Policy to give administrative people and policy makers some evidences for Science and Technology policy. His main task is policy implication of Open Science and Open Access, together with developing a new way to foresight ST trends.

Specialties: not-for-profit publishing, e-journals, scholarly communication, open science

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Professor, Department of Organic and Polymeric Materials, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Editor in chief, NPG Asia Materials

Naoto Ikegai is visiting associate professor of Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. His research interests are in the fields of information law and policy, digital cultural heritage, and digital platform strategy. Prior to his current position, Naoto served as a faculty member of the University of Tokyo Library System and researcher of Art Archive Center at Tokyo University of the Arts. Naoto holds a Ph.D. in Socio-information and Communication Studies from the University of Tokyo.

I am a contract associate professor within the Mechanical Engineering department at Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan) and deputy-director of the International Education Support Centre for Engineering. My position allows me to combine research into nano-scale thermo-physical properties of liquids and solids with my interests in modern teaching methods and internationalisation.

I utilise active learning methods for all of my classes to maximise student outcomes. In particular, I employ Online Challenge-Based Active Learning (CBAL). Together with Assistant Professor Mika Tamura of the International Education Support Center for Engineering I have set up the ATLAS Initiative (Active Learning in STEM), of which CBAL is one integral part.

Curriculum Vitae

2016-present: Contract Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka Japan

2013-2016: Research Assistant Professor, TEEL (Shiomi) lab, University of Tokyo, Japan

2010-2013: Post-doctoral researcher (2 years JSPS), Maruyama-Shiomi lab, University of Tokyo, Japan

2009-2010: Post-doctoral researcher, Sogang Energy-Water Nexus lab, Sogang University, Korea

2009: PhD in Physics, Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey, UK

2005: MPhys (1st class) in Physics, University of Surrey, UK

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Pieter Franken’s career spans over 25 years in Financial Services, specializing in O&T, Fintech, innovation and large-scale transformations.

In 2011 Pieter co-founded Safecast.org - a global initiative to collect citizen sourced environmental data. Since 2016 he is a member of Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) International Technology Advisory Panel (ITAP)

Pieter holds a MSc in Computer Science from Delft University and currently is a Guest Professor at Keio University and researcher with MIT Media Lab where he contributes to research in Citizen Science, IoT and Block-chain technologies.

Hisako Ohtsubo is a senior researcher of Research Institute of Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, Nihon University, a former Professor & Head of the Female Scientists Support Unit (FSSU), Nihon University, Active members of Japan Inter-Society Liaison Association for promoting Equal Participation of Men and Women in Science and Engineering (EPMEWSE, so-called RENRAKUKAI), working on the gender issue in the field of Life Science. She spent her early days of her career (70s~80s) at Stony Brook University, NY., as a faculty member, where she had experienced early days of the affirmative action in STEM field in US. Her publications include; 1) Japan's Lagging Gender Equality. Science Apr 26; 340 (6131): 428-30 (2013), and 2) Maximizing the Potential of Scientists in Japan: promoting equal participation for women scientists through leadership development. Genes to Cells 18 (07): 529-532 (2013).

Gentiane Venture is a French Roboticist who has been working in academia in Tokyo, Japan for more than 10 years. After graduating from Ecole Centrale de Nantes and obtaining a PhD from University of Nantes in 2000 and 2003 respectively, she works at the French Nuclear Agency and at the University of Tokyo. She started in 2009 with Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology where she has established the GVlab, an international research group working on human science and robotics. The researchers at the GVlab try to encompass human motion dynamics and non-verbal communication into complex intelligent robot behavior design to achieve personalized human machine interaction. The work of her group is highly interdisciplinary by collaborating with therapists, sociologists, psychologists, physiologists, philosophers, neuro-scientists, ergonomists, bio-mechanists, designers worldwide…

Present Position:

Associate Professor, Center for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Dep. of Stem Cell Dynamics, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo

Education:      

1984-1990       M.D., Philipps-University Marburg, Germany

1993                Doctor in Medicine, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany

Professional Experiences:

2012- present   Associate Professor (tenure track), IMSUT, Center for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative medicine