Allen`s PhD Defense
Congratulations to Allen on getting another step closer to graduation with his PhD Defense yesterday!
Category: Research
Farewell Alfaris! (and a trip to Tohoku)
Alfaris has been with us a visiting student on the KU-STAR program. Today he leaves the lab to return to The University of Melbourne to complete his Master`s. His research has been “Quantifying the...
Where in the World Should we Produce Green Hydrogen? (Check out Zun`s new paper!)
Congratulations to doctoral candidate Zun for publishing the first article on her thesis research! The paper “Where in the World Should We Produce Green Hydrogen? An Objective First-Pass Site Selection” has been published in...
Recent conference presentations
On the 12th to 14th of November, EcoDesign 2025 was held in Tokyo. 2 members of the lab presented at the conference. Takako presenting her ongoing work on Energy Poverty, while Zun presented collaborative...
New Paper: Risk dynamics in the PV industry
Congratulations to our collaborator and recent visiting PhD student Yujia, whose work was just published in Energy Policy, “Risk dynamics and strategies of China’s solar PV industry chain under trade frictions: A review”. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114942...
Japan, Australia, India Trilateral Collaboration
Trilateral Pathways to Resource Security: Japan-Australia-India Collaboration on Critical Minerals 25th – 26th of November (in-person in Kyoto, or online via Zoom) As part of the Japan-Australia-India collaboration week, we will hold two events...
New paper on Social Sustainability in Energy Policy!
Congratulations to Allen for his recent publication “Investigating social sustainability in Philippine electrification policies through qualitative content analysis” in Energy and Sustainable Development https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esd.2025.101817 Free Open Access by this link until October 23, 2025 ...
Presentation Award: Jeanny
Congratulations to Jeanny for receiving a Merit Student Presentation Award for her presentation at the recent icRS Conference 2025 Her presentation was on her Master`s thesis work “Life cycle assessment of various metallurgical processing...
Sustain Conference 2025: Call for Papers Open
Back after an extended absence, the 9th International Conference on a Sustainable Future for Human Security (SUSTAIN 2025) will be held at Kyoto University on November 18th, 2025.
1st Energy Economics and Energy Engineering Conference
The 1st Energy Economics and Energy Engineering Conference (EEEC?) was held at Kyushu University`s I2CNER from July 30 – August 1, 2025. This conference emerges as the formalisation of a series of inter-laboratory workshops...