Allen`s PhD Defense
Congratulations to Allen on getting another step closer to graduation with his PhD Defense yesterday!
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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...
Welcome Alfaris and Yi!
First seminar of 2026, and we welcome two visitors Alfaris (visiting until mid-February under the KU-STAR program from The University of Melbourne) and Yi joining us from University of Bordeaux for a few months...
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...
Congratulations to Sakurako – Policy Idea Contest Award!
Congratulations to Sakurako for winning a Policy Idea Contest Award!
New paper! Lifecycle assessment of plastics
Congratulations to Adho Kim and Raski for getting this paper “Comparative life cycle assessment study of virgin polyethylene and bio-polyethylene, with recycled polyethylene from uncontaminated post-industrial film” in Green Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/D5GC02751A This article can...
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...
Visit from “Dr Coffee”
Yesterday we had a visit from “Dr Coffee” Andik Irawan, our lab alumnus. He came to discuss some ongoing and potential collaborations with his colleague Prof. Kusmiyati. They both presented at the recent Sustain...
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...