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Center for Preventive Medical Sciences, Chiba University
LecturerI have a keen interest in the comprehensive analysis of environmental chemicals using mass spectrometry and in studying the health effects of chemical exposure through metabolome analysis. My goal is to elucidate the biological mechanisms by which the diverse array of chemicals in the environment impacts human health.
Recent Topics of Interest: Developing methods to analyze the effects of multiple exposures to various chemical substances.
Motto in Research or in Life: Just give it a try with your own hands.
Hobby / Holiday: Caring for children, R programming, Listening to music, Playing a game: ‘Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon’
Center for Preventive Medical Sciences / Design Research Institute, Chiba University
Associate ProfessorI conduct research on how the built environment—such as cities and buildings—affects human behavior and health from a public health perspective, and apply these insights to spatial design.
Grounded in the concept of ‘Primordial Prevention,’ which supports people's health simply through everyday living, my work empirically examines the relationship between environment and health, and translates the findings into real-world applications in collaboration with local governments and companies.
I view the living environment as a form of social capital that is open and accessible to all, and I explore how environmental design can help reduce health disparities among people.
By bridging the fields of architecture and urban design with preventive medicine and public health, my research aims to build a new paradigm—one that shifts the focus of health from individual behavior to environmental planning and design for society as a whole.
Through this interdisciplinary approach that integrates cities, architecture, and public health, I am working to establish a new academic field: Healthy Cities and Spatial Design Studies.
Recent Topics of Interests:
・The impact of climate change on urban environments and lifestyles
・Spatial design theories and their implications for reducing health disparities
・Spatial planning that supports human, social, cultural, and spatial behaviors: bridging behavioral science and urban design
・Visualization and co-creation of healthy environments through the integration of digital technology and spatial design
Motto in Research or in Life:
Keep evolving—professionally, intellectually, and personally.
Hobby / Holiday:
I enjoy experiencing nature through all my senses.
Center for Preventive Medical Sciences, Chiba University
Associate ProfessorDrawing on my experience at the Duke Clinical Research Institute of Duke University (USA), I have conducted clinical research at Chiba University Hospital on a wide range of diseases—from lifestyle-related diseases including diabetes, obesity, and dyslipidemia to Werner syndrome—working to establish evidence and explore new treatment strategies.
Currently, at the Center for Preventive Medical Sciences, I am involved in the Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS), also known as the "Eco-Children's Survey," as well as the Chiba Study of Mother and Child Health (C-MACH), which investigates child health and development beginning in the fetal stage.
Recent Topics of Interests:
・Investigating the impact of environmental factors such as chemicals, as well as diet and physical activity, on health throughout the life course—from the parental generation and fetal stage to childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and older age.
・Conducting database research utilizing real-world data and big data.
・Promoting collaborative research by leveraging networks with researchers and companies in Japan and abroad.
Motto in Research or in Life: Keep thinking positively!
Hobby / Holiday:
Watching soccer games, and playing futsal and golf
