The objective of the Department of Global Fire Science and Technology is to foster advanced and specialized professionals who can adopt effective measures for controlling fire disaster risks by using the results of cutting-edge research related to fire safety performance evaluations and the establishment of design systems based on such evaluations, with the goal of controlling fire disaster risks in urban spaces.
List of Research Areas and Faculty Members
| Major | Name | Title | Research Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fire Science and Technology | HAGIWARA Ichiro | Professor | Evacuation safety, Fire safety design of buildings, Performance-based Code |
| ICHIMURA Shiro | Professor | Sports Science, Preventive Medicine and Public Health | |
| KOHNO Mamoru | Professor | Building Material and structure, Fire safety engineering, Structural reliability | |
| MATSUBARA Yoshiyuki | Professor | Architectural environment/equipment (Safety engineering, Fire science, Electrostatics) | |
| MATSUYAMA Ken | Professor | Fire Dynamics, Thermal Fluid Dynamics, Fire Extinction Theory, Measurement Engineering | |
| OHMIYA Yoshifumi | Professor | Building Disaster Prevention Planning, Evacuation Behavior, Smoke Control, Fire Spreading Mechanisms | |
| MIZUNO Masayuki | Associate Professor | Human Behavior in Fire, Evacuation Safety, Evacuation Simulation | |
| YANAGITA Shinya | Professor | Behavioral Physiology in heat environment, Neurophysiological (Brain) function in fire |
