Managing
Directors
Co-President & Managing Director, PHIC Professor at Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo Special Assistant to the President (Financial Strategy, Social Cooperation & Academia-Industry Collaboration)
Kiyohiko Igarashi
After graduating from the University of Tokyo (Agricultural and Life Sciences) with a PhD, Kiyohiko became Assistant Professor from 2009 and became Professor from 2021. Since 2016, he has also served as Visiting Professor at the Finnish Research Centre for Technology (VTT).
Kiyohiko is the leading researcher on the production of energy and materials from trees and grasses. He has revolutionised biomass conversion research, for example, increasing the efficiency of biomass conversion by eliminating enzyme 'traffic congestion’.
Kiyohiko is in charge of and leading numerous industry-academia partnerships for the University of Tokyo