PEOPLE

Ken Kurosaki is a Professor of Kyoto University (Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science). He was born in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan in 1973. He received his B.E. (1995), M.E. (1997), and Ph.D. (2003) in Nuclear Engineering from Osaka University. He was an Assistant Professor (1998-2009) and an Associate Professor (2009-2019) at Osaka University. His awards include Best Scientific Paper Award at the 24th International Conference on Thermoelectrics (2005), Encouraging Prize of the Atomic Energy Society of Japan (2006), Best Paper Award of Thermoelectric Society of Japan (2008 & 2012), and Academic Award of Thermoelectric Society of Japan (2018). He has also been the Director of the Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science since April 2023.

Yifan Sun is an Assistant Professor at Kyoto University (Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science). He was born in Henan, China, in 1994. He received his B.S. (2016) in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University, M.E. (2019), and Ph.D. (2022) in Engineering from Osaka University. He was a Program-Specific Researcher at Kyoto University (Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science)(2022).He was awarded the EPD Best Poster - First Place Award at the TMS 2019 Annual Meeting & Exhibition and the Best Student Presentation Award at the 42nd Japan Symposium on Thermophysical Properties. Currently, he is working on nuclear-related materials and thermoelectric materials.

Masaya Kumagai is a Researcher (part-time) at Kyoto University (Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science), Researcher at Sakura Internet Inc. and Visiting Researcher at RIKEN. He was born in Osaka Prefecture, Japan in 1989. He received his B.E. (2012) from National Institute of Technology (Maizuru College), M.E. (2014) and Ph.D. (2017) in Engineering from Osaka University. He was a Program-Specific Assistant Professor at Kyoto University (Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science)(2020～2024). His awards include Poster Award at the 38th International Conference on Thermoelectrics (2019), Poster Award of Thermoelectric Society of Japan (2019).

Fission of nuclear fuels generates enormous energy, but also fission products. As fission products accumulate

Consideration and presentation of future nuclear fuel cycle projects in Japan based on overseas cases

Construction of Feature Space Based on Electronic Density of States for Exploring Novel Materials