Safety innovation

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  Safety and Resilience of Infrastructure and Infrastructure Systems

  （PI : Distinguished YNU Professor Yozo Fujino）
  A large number of the civil infrastructures in Japan are aging. The safety and resilience of infrastructures and infrastructure systems……See the detail

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  Safety of Marine Structures and Environmental Protection

  （PI : Professor Makoto Arai）
  The unit carries out collaborative researches on the safety and operability of floating liquefied natural gas units……See the detail

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  Safety and Risk Management of Process Industry & Energy Systems

  （PI : Professor Atsumi Miyake）
  This unit investigates loss prevention, hazard identification, risk management and safety promotion of technological systems……See the detail

Creation and innovation of smart cities

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  Chemistry of Hydrogen Energy Conversion

  （PI : Professor Shigenori Mitsushima）
  We develop systems and materials for direct electrosynthesis of energy carriers and non-precious metal oxide electrocatalysts……See the detail

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  Extremely Energy-Efficient Processors

  （PI : Professor Nobuyuki Yoshikawa）
  Our research goal is to realize extremely energy-efficient integrated circuits beyond the thermodynamic limit……See the detail

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  Self-Healing Materials

  （PI : Professor Shigenori Mitsushima）
  This research unit is organized for R&D of self-healing materials, which are attractive candidates as next-generation structural materials……See the detail

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  Next Generation Urban Habitats

  （PI : Professor Kumiko Inui）
  Research on habitats correlated with issues confronting cities throughout the world will be undertaken in collaboration with overseas……See the detail

Life innovation

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  Medical Information and Communication Technology (Medical ICT)

  （PI : Professor Ryuji Kohno）
  The unit promotes research and development of reliable and safe, i.e. dependable wireless body area networks (BAN)……See the detail

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  Information and Physical Security

  （PI : Professor Tsutomu Matsumoto）
  This research unit conducts research on one-step-ahead information and physical security techniques……See the detail

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  Risks and Uncertainties in the Economy

  （PI : Professor Taro Akiyama）
  This research unit conducts theoretical and empirical research on a wide range of topics of risks and uncertainties in the economy……See the detail

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  Policy Development in Latin America

  （PI : Professor Yoko Fujikake）
  This research unit conducts urban and rural development policy research focusing on sustainable living with environmental risks……See the detail

International Partnerships

In the current world of academic society, there is fierce competition on an international scale for acquiring outstanding human resources. In other words, “brain circulation” is accelerating. Making use of such conditions, the Institute of Advanced Sciences focuses on bringing in the best international researchers who explore the field of sustainable living with environmental risks, and promote the improvement of the system for acquiring such researchers. As a result, we can expect the formation of an international center which is capable of starting international projects, conducting creative research, and obtaining outstanding research results. By having well-known corporate researchers, which the Institute of Advanced Sciences plans to acquire, participate in such research activities, we aim for the strengthening of exit strategies connected with the implementation of research results, and can expect to uncover research seeds and create new research projects based on the needs of society.
Our overseas partner institutions are listed below. Information on the support system for researchers from overseas (currently under development) is also available below.

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Industry-Academic Partnerships

Also placing importance on industrial-academic partnerships, Yokohama National University proactively promotes industry-academic collaborative research led both YNU researchers and corporate researchers. The Institute of Advanced Sciences focuses on bringing in the best corporate researchers as key people who can plan for faster implementation of the newest research results in the field of sustainable living with environmental risks, and promote the improvement of the system for acquiring such researchers. With the expectation of well-known international researchers at the Institute of Advanced Sciences participating in such industry-academic collaborative research, we can anticipate the new development of industrial technologies which deal with environmental risks in Japan.
The Institute of Advanced Sciences is currently involved in industry-academic collaborative research with the following companies. Information on the support system for researchers from the industrial world (currently under development) is also available below.

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