Allen`s PhD Defense
Congratulations to Allen on getting another step closer to graduation with his PhD Defense yesterday!
Category: News
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...
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...
Welcomes and Farewells
The Autumn semester starts on October 1, and we welcome two new students and a visitor to the lab: Alfred has arrived from Malaysia to do the second leg of his Double Degree between...
Farewell Siti
Dr Siti Marsili Mhd Ruslan, Senior Lecturer at University of Malaysia Terengganu has been in our group on a research fellowship, but is about to leave us. I believe it has been a productive...
Farewell Party
We`re sad to be saying goodbye to a few members of the lab – Raski has been with us for 3.5 years through his PhD and a short position as a researcher, and will...
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.