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Actual and Former Members
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Takashi Yano took a position as a research
assistant for the Faculty of Engineering, Kumamoto
University, in 1976. He worked under the supervision
of late Professor Asato Kobayashi, assisting him
in his lectures and studying the effects of noise.
In 1988 he earned the degree of Doctor of Engineering
from Osaka
University. In 1989 he was appointed Associate
Professor and in 1997 full Professor at the Faculty
of Engineering, Kumamoto University. His research
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Dr. Keiji Kawai took a position as a research
associate for the laboratory in 1996. He is engaged
in education on environmental engineering and carries
out research on public acoustics together with Professor
Takashi Yano. |
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Dr. James M. Fields, USA, was invited as a
visiting professor from October 1998 to September
1999. He was engaged with lectures for undergraduate
and graduate students and carried out an international
joint study on the construction of standardized
noise annoyance scales .
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After Professor Emeritus Yoichi
Ando had retired from Kobe University in 2003,
he moved to Kirishima. He still carries out several
research projects as a research fellow of Professor
Yano's laboratory.
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Dr. Katja
Wirth Buergel from Switzerland was invited
as a visiting research fellow. She graduated at
Fribourg
University, Switzerland, in 1999 and earned
her doctoral degree at the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in 2004.
At Kumamoto University, she is engaged in a cross-cultural
study on community response to aircraft noise.
She is here for one year, from October 2005 to
September 2006.
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