Prof. Satoshi Soda/ Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Prof. Satoshi Soda was born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan in 1972.
Awarded MSc and PhD in Engineering from Department of
Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of engineering, Osaka
University in 1997 and 1999, respectively. Assistant Professor
of Department of Global Architecture (1999-2008), and Associate
Professor of Department of Sustainable Energy and Environmental
Engineering, (2008-2017), Graduate School of engineering, Osaka
University.
Professor at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University,
Japan since 2017, and Associate Fellow of Ritsumeikan Advanced
Research Academy since 2022.
The research focuses on wastewater treatment using bacteria and
aquatic plants. Recent challenging topics are (1) nitrogen
removal from domestic wastewater using simultaneous
heterotrophic denitrification and anammox, (2) activated sludge
for excess sludge reducing using earthworms, (3) algal-bacterial
system for removing LAS and methyl paraben, (4) trickling
filters followed by constructed wetlands with edible plants, (5)
constructed wetlands for removing azo dyes from Batik
wastewater, (6) constructed wetlands for mine drainage treatment
in Japan, (7) bioreactors for removing of antimony from
wastewater, (8) growing eelgrass using magnesium ammonium
phosphate recovered from sewage, (9) methane recovery from
rubber seed residue by anaerobic digestion, and (10) Monitoring
of seasonal change of algae and bacteria populations in an inner
lake of Lake Biwa.
Prof. Hyunook Kim/ University of Seoul, Korea
Dr. Hyunook Kim is Professor at Environmental
Engineering, University of Seoul, Korea, and Director of R&D
Center of Core Technologies for Water Treatment. Professor Kim
earned his B.S. degree in Environmental Science from Yonsei
University, Korea in 1994, and an M.S. degree in Environmental
Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1997, and a Ph.D.
from University of Maryland at College Park in 2000. Before he
joined the faculty member at University of Seoul in 2002, he
worked as Environmental Engineer for US Dept. of Agriculture,
MD, USA.
Professor Kim’s research in the area of water pollution control
includes a number of projects on process control and operation
of water and wastewater treatment plants. Especially he is
interested in monitoring and control of contaminants of emerging
concern. He has published numerous journal papers and made
conference presentations. He has been received a few awards for
his academic and research achievements.
Prof. Kokyo Oh/ Center for Environmental Science in Saitama, Japan
Prof. Dr. Kokyo Oh is a senior researcher in Center for Environmental Science in Saitama, Japan. He obtained Ph.D. degree (soil science) in 1995, and was honored as a research fellow by Japan Science and Technology Agency (STA) from 1997 to 1999. His research areas include soil science, environmental conservation, environmental chemistry and biology, and environmental agronomy. He has published more than 200 major academic papers, has presided over and participated in more than 100 scientific research fund projects, and has been invited to be the chairman of more than 20 international conferences.