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- Project Professor
- Satoshi OHARA
- UTokyo LCA Center for Future Strategy, UTLCA
- Pre-emptive LCA Social Cooperation Research Departments
- ohara
utlca.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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Biography
| March 1997 | Bachelor, Chemistry & Biotechnology, Sc. Engineering, The University of Tokyo(UTokyo) |
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| March 1999 | Master, Chemical System Engineering, Sc. Engineering, UTokyo |
| April 1999 | Researcher, ASAHI BREWERIES, LTD. |
| April 2012 | Manager, Dept. of Development of Bioethanol Tech., Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd. |
| March 2013 | Ph.D., Chemical System Engineering, UTokyo |
| April 2016 | Manager, Dept. of Business Planning, Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd. |
| April 2019 | Project Leader, Asahi Quality & Innovations, Ltd. |
| July 2019 | Project Associate Professor, RCAST, UTokyo |
| April 2021 | Project Associate Professor, IFI, UTokyo |
| April 2024 | Project Professor, RCAST, UTokyo |
Research Interests
Toward the realization of a sustainable society, the "evaluation criteria" of science and technology are changing daily.
Innovative advanced technologies currently in the research and development stage need to be quantitatively evaluated based not on current societal evaluation criteria but on future criteria, assuming the future society in which they will be implemented. The effective development of advanced science and technology can be achieved by clarifying innovative technologies’ performance and societal requirements based on their environmental impacts throughout their future life cycles and backcasting this information into current R&D. We will develop "pre-emptive LCA" that contributes to the design of future societies. Our goal is to establish a new scientific principle beyond conventional academic disciplines. Specifically, the project will focus on developing standardized assessment methods for advanced science and technology and exploring the integrated design of social systems that strengthen the link between production and consumption.
Main research themes:
(1) Academic principles and standard methodologies for pre-emptive LCA
(2) Pre-emptive life cycle design of advanced science and technology based on future social transition scenarios
-Future scenarios & Resource constraints
(3) Biomass & bio-process design based on life cycle thinking
-Biofuels, bio-chemicals, enzymes, pharmaceuticals
-Efficient process design from "Lab scale (mL-scale)" to "Factory scale (100kL-scale)"
Innovative advanced technologies currently in the research and development stage need to be quantitatively evaluated based not on current societal evaluation criteria but on future criteria, assuming the future society in which they will be implemented. The effective development of advanced science and technology can be achieved by clarifying innovative technologies’ performance and societal requirements based on their environmental impacts throughout their future life cycles and backcasting this information into current R&D. We will develop "pre-emptive LCA" that contributes to the design of future societies. Our goal is to establish a new scientific principle beyond conventional academic disciplines. Specifically, the project will focus on developing standardized assessment methods for advanced science and technology and exploring the integrated design of social systems that strengthen the link between production and consumption.
Main research themes:
(1) Academic principles and standard methodologies for pre-emptive LCA
(2) Pre-emptive life cycle design of advanced science and technology based on future social transition scenarios
-Future scenarios & Resource constraints
(3) Biomass & bio-process design based on life cycle thinking
-Biofuels, bio-chemicals, enzymes, pharmaceuticals
-Efficient process design from "Lab scale (mL-scale)" to "Factory scale (100kL-scale)"
Award
- November 2005 The Japan Institute of Energy, "Incentive Award"
- April 2007 16th The Grand Prize for the Global Environment Award, "The Environment Minister's Award"
- April 2013 22th The Grand Prize for the Global Environment Award, "The Grand Prize"
- December 2016 29th International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists, "Maurice Paturau Award"
- May 2019 "Outstanding Paper Award 2018", Chemical Engineering, Japan
- June 2019 "Technical Award of the Society for Biotechnology, Japan"
- March 2020 Best Paper Award of the Institute of Life Cycle Assessment, Japan
Keywords
Pre-emptive Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Agriculture-Industry Integrated Process Design
Educational Systems
- Department of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Graduate school of Engineering
- Department of Chemical System Engineering, Graduate school of Engineering
