{"id":683,"date":"2025-07-08T01:14:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T01:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drdc.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/?page_id=683"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:12:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T08:12:43","slug":"faculty","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/drdc.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/en\/research\/faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty & Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Faculty & Staff<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Steering Committee<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Title<\/th>Name<\/th>Job Title \/ Affiliation<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Professor<\/td>Toshihisa Sugino<\/td>Director, DRDC \/ Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life<\/td><\/tr>
Specially Appointed Professor<\/td>Masato Oba<\/td>Vice Director, DRDC \/ Professor, University of Alberta<\/td><\/tr>
Specially Appointed Professor<\/td>Takashi Funatsu<\/td>Dean of Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life<\/td><\/tr>
Professor<\/td>Masayuki Shimada<\/td>Dean of School of Applied Biological Science \/ Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life<\/td><\/tr>
Professor<\/td>Naoki Isobe<\/td>Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life<\/td><\/tr>
Chief Manager, Support Office for the Fields of Biosphere Science<\/td>Shunsuke Hanaoka<\/td>Vice Dean of School of Applied Biological Science<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Integrated Division of Livestock Production Research<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Title<\/th>Name<\/th>Job Title \/ Affiliation<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Specially Appointed Professor<\/td>Masato Oba<\/td>Vice Director, DRDC \/ Professor, University of Alberta<\/td><\/tr>
Professor<\/td>Kenji Hosono<\/td>Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life<\/td><\/tr>
Professor<\/td>Yosuke Chomei<\/td>Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life<\/td><\/tr>
Associate Professor<\/td>Yuuzou Kurokawa<\/td>DRDC (full-time)<\/td><\/tr>
Assistant Professor<\/td>Aira Seo<\/td>DRDC (full-time)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Division of Animal and Dairy Science<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Title<\/th>Name<\/th>Job Title \/ Affiliation<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Professor<\/td>Toshihisa Sugino<\/td>Director, DRDC \/ Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life<\/td><\/tr>
Professor<\/td>Naoki Isobe<\/td>Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life<\/td><\/tr>
Professor<\/td>Masayuki Shimada<\/td>Dean of School of Applied Biological Science \/ Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life<\/td><\/tr>
Professor<\/td>Masahide Nishibori<\/td>Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life<\/td><\/tr>
Professor<\/td>Hiroyuki Horiuchi<\/td>Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life<\/td><\/tr>
Professor<\/td>Takahiro Yonezawa<\/td>Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life<\/td><\/tr>
Associate Professor<\/td>Takashi Umehara<\/td>Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life<\/td><\/tr>
Associate Professor<\/td>Yoshiaki Nakamura<\/td>Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life<\/td><\/tr>
Assistant Professor<\/td>Mei Matsuzaki<\/td>Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Division of Digital Twin Research in Dairy Farm<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Title<\/th>Name<\/th>Job Title \/ Affiliation<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Professor<\/td>Toshihisa Sugino<\/td>Director, DRDC \/ Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life<\/td><\/tr>
Professor<\/td>Idaku Ishii<\/td>Graduate School of Innovation and Practice for Smart Society<\/td><\/tr>
Professor<\/td>Tomonori Kindaichi<\/td>Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering<\/td><\/tr>
Visiting Professor<\/td>Shogo Higaki<\/td>National Agriculture and Food Research Organization<\/td><\/tr>
Associate Professor<\/td>Shin’Ichi Kawakami<\/td>Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life<\/td><\/tr>
Associate Professor<\/td>Sayaka Kindaichi<\/td>Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering<\/td><\/tr>
Assistant Professor<\/td>Kohei Shimasaki<\/td>Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Division of  Underutilized Resource Utilization Research<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Title<\/th>Name<\/th>Job Title \/ Affiliation<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Professor<\/td>Taketo Obitsu<\/td>Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life<\/td><\/tr>
Professor<\/td>Tatsuya Nakayama<\/td>Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life<\/td><\/tr>
Associate Professor<\/td>Naoki Suzuki<\/td>DRDC (full-time)<\/td><\/tr>
Associate Professor<\/td>Takahiro Nii<\/td>Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life<\/td><\/tr>
Assistant Professor<\/td>Yudai Inabu<\/td>Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Technical Staff (Dispatched by Technical Center)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Title<\/th>Name<\/th>Job Title \/ Affiliation<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Senior Technical Specialist<\/td>Yoshimasa Tsumiyama<\/td>Head of Field Science Division (concurrent post)<\/td><\/tr>
Technical Specialist<\/td>Ichiro Chikamatsu<\/td>Head of Technical Section, Biological Technical Section, Field Science Division<\/td><\/tr>
Technical Senior Staff<\/td>Shinji Kihara<\/td>Biological Technical Section, Field Science Division<\/td><\/tr>
Technical Senior Staff<\/td>Akiyoshi Tanaka<\/td>Biological Technical Section, Field Science Division<\/td><\/tr>
Technical Senior Staff<\/td>Ryohei Waki<\/td>Biological Technical Section, Field Science Division<\/td><\/tr>
Technical Staff<\/td>Kaoru Hiyama<\/td>Biological Technical Section, Field Science Division<\/td><\/tr>
Technical Staff<\/td>Shoko Hiyama<\/td>Biological Technical Section, Field Science Division<\/td><\/tr>
Contract Technical Staff<\/td>Aki Kitamura<\/td>Biological Technical Section, Field Science Division<\/td><\/tr>
Contract Technical Staff<\/td>Hirokazu Kubota<\/td>Biological Technical Section, Field Science Division<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Administrative Staff<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Title<\/th>Name<\/th>Job Title \/ Affiliation<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Staff<\/td>Hiromi Yamasaki<\/td>Support Office for the Fields of Biosphere Science, Higashi-Hiroshima Campus Management Support Office<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Faculty & Staff Steering Committee Title Name Job Title \/ Affiliation Professor Toshihisa Sugino Director, DRDC \/ Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life Specially Appointed Professor Masato Oba Vice Director, DRDC \/ Professor, University of Alberta Specially Appointed Professor Takashi Funatsu Dean of Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life Professor Masayuki Shimada Dean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":648,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/drdc.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/?page_id=585","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-683","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","en-US"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdc.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdc.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdc.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdc.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdc.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/drdc.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"https:\/\/drdc.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/683\/revisions\/1168"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drdc.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drdc.hiroshima-u.ac.jp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}