Invited Speakers

 

Takuji Matsumoto | Kanazawa University, Japan

Katsushige Uranishi is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Engineering at the University of Kitakyushu, Japan. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, and completed his Ph.D. in Engineering at Osaka University, Japan, in 2019. Previously, he worked as a senior researcher which focuses on air and water pollution at the Nara prefecture landscape and environment center, Japan. With over 20 years of experience in local government and its agencies, his expertise includes environmental pollution control, hazardous chemical analysis using mass spectrometry, risk assessment, air quality simulation, machine learning, and data science. His current research focuses on improving air quality simulations through uncertainty assessment in emission inventories, using source and receptor models for environmental policy making. He has authored several peer-reviewed articles including leading journals such as Environmental Pollution and Atmospheric Environment. His research interests also include the effects of COVID-19 closures on air quality and the effects of Global Cap 2020 on PM2.5 concentrations in Japanese inland sea area.