Invited Speaker
EXPERTS
Yukichika Kawata
Kindai University, Japan
Dr. Kawata is an assoc. Prof. at Faculty of Economics, Kindai University in Higashi Osaka, Japan. He earned his Ph.D. degree at Kyoto University in 2004. Before joining a faculty member at Kindai University. he was a lecturer and an assistant Prof. at other Japanese universities. His research interests include environmental economics, resource economics, and wildlife management. He has published more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed international academic journals such as Ecological Research (Wiley), Ecological Economics (Elsevier), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (De Gruyter), Urban Forestry & Urban Greening (Elsevier), Appetite (Elsevier), and Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management (Springer), and more than 80 other publications.
Anatoly Zinchenko
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Anatoly Zinchenko is currently an Associate
Professor in the Materials and Energy Design unit at the Graduate
School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan. He earned
his master’s degree from M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University in
2001 and received his Ph.D. from Nagoya University in 2004, focusing
on the physical chemistry and biophysics of DNA. After completing
his Ph.D., he continued his research as a postdoctoral fellow in the
Science Department of Kyoto University, Japan, where he worked on
constructing artificial systems that mimic DNA assembly in nature.
In 2007, Anatoly accepted a Lecturer position at the Graduate School
of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, where he began
developing materials based on biopolymers such as chitosan and
cellulose for environmental cleaning. He was promoted to Associate
Professor at the same Graduate School in 2011. In 2019, Anatoly
established the Sustainable Materials Laboratory, which focuses on
utilizing waste plastics and biomass for environmental and civil
engineering applications, including wastewater treatment and soil
improvement. Anatoly has authored approximately 100 refereed
publications that have received over 2000 citations.
