Takashi Asaeda
Saitama University, Japan
Dr Asaeda has received numerous awards from international organisations and also plays an active role in international and domestic society and committees, including serving as chairperson of committees of the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and as chairperson of Prefectural Committees of Saitama, and of the Japanese Society of Civil Engineers among others. His interests broadly cover ecology, hydrology, and fluid mechanics in the environment, including physical processes of watered areas, structures associated with urban heat islands, and field observation and mathematical modelling of aquatic ecology and biology. He has published more than 200 journal papers.