Everine van de Kraats

admin November 23, 2018
Presentation Topic
Aquaphotomics for investigating water physics and functionality (Abstract)
Bio
In 2018 Everine van de Kraats joined the Water Research Lab (hosted by the Water Research Foundation) in Heidelberg, to investigate physical properties of water and phenomena in ultra-high dilutions. She also works as an independent researcher. Her drive is to bring science about water to the people.

She studied medical technical computer science and did a PhD in medical image registration, after which she worked for Philips Healthcare as a clinical scientist for four years. She became interested in a more holistic approach, and worked on bridging Chinese and Western medicine concepts at the Sino-Dutch Centre for Personalized and Preventive Medicine at Leiden University. Subsequently, at ViaLight Research she investigated together with her team the functional effects on biological systems of water from a ‘water vitalizing device’.

The main measurement technique in her work is currently near-infrared spectroscopy using aquaphotomics approach.

Masao Takayanagi

admin November 23, 2018
Presentation Topic
Variation of Near-Infrared Spectrum of Water upon Dissolution of Various Solutes (Abstract)
Bio
1982-1986, Graduate student, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo (Prof. Mitsuo TASUMI group)
1989, Get Doctor of Science, The University of Tokyo
･ Chemical applications of inverse Raman spectroscopy
1986-1995, Research Associate, Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan (Prof. Ichiro HANAZAKI group)
･ Structures and dynamics of molecular clusters in a supersonic jet
･ Effect of intermolecular interaction on the potentials of large amplitude molecular vibrations
1995-2004, Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
2004-present, Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan
IR and NIR spectroscopies together with chemometrics have been used for subjects such as follows:
･ Nondestructive quality evaluation of blueberry fruits
･ Identification of fibers for clothes and determination of their blended ratio
･ Inhomogeneity in binary solvent mixtures
･ Variations of hydrogen bonded network of water by dissolving salts or organic compounds
･ Development of new techniques for atmospheric measurements
2011-present, Vice Dean of United Graduate School of Agricultural Science

Keiichiro Shiraga

admin November 23, 2018
Presentation Topic
Reconsideration of the relaxational line shape of liquid water based on ultrabroadband dielectric spectroscopy (Abstract)
Bio
Keiichiro Shiraga received a ME and PhD in Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University in 2014 and 2016, respectively. Since 2017, he has been working in RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences as a Special Postdoctoral Researcher. He main engages in terahertz spectroscopy studies to unveil biological roles of water in living cells.

Paolo Renati

admin November 23, 2018
Presentation Topic
Temperature Dependence Analysis of the NIR Spectra of Liquid Water and QED theory (Abstract)
Bio
Condensed Matter Scientist and Materials Engineer, he spent the last 10 years in studying water within the theoretical framework of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) getting more and more enthusiastic about the possibilities offered by this Quantum-Field view of matter, especially liquid water, both in ordinary and exotic phenomenologies. These new tools, offered by the electrodynamic perspective, open deep insights about the critical aspect of biology and medicine, allowing a real leap to a systemic view of life both at eco-systemic and sub-cellular scales, revealing how semantics in biology is the, physically grounded key point. For this reason, one of his paramount concerns is the critics of epistemological aspects in life sciences, totally unable to contemplate such kind of observable. He’s now advancing through a PhD course in Physics of Complex Systems, trying to enrich and merge deep philosophical problems in science methodology and experimental results that corroborate the necessity of an approach in the name of complexity.

Harumi Sato

admin November 23, 2018
Presentation Topic
Polymer structure in water studied by THz-Raman spectroscopy (Abstract)
Bio
Professor Harumi Sato obtained her Ph.D. (1996) degree in Engineering from Gunma University. After she spent one and a half year at Toyota Technological Institute, Nagoya as a postdoctoral fellow, she joined the Kwansei Gakuin University in 1999 as a postdoctoral fellow. In 2012, she moved to Kobe University as an associate professor. Since 2018, she has been a professor in Graduate School of Human Development and Environment.

Sae Tanaka

admin November 23, 2018
Presentation Topic
Analysis of Interaction between Glucose Anomers and Water Molecules (Abstract)
Bio
Sae Tanaka is an Instructor at School of Medicine, Keio University. She received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2010, 2012 and 2015, respectively.

Cristina Malegori

admin November 23, 2018
Presentation Topic
Water molecular structure behind water activity: investigating on chemical modifications of rice germ during storage (Abstract)
Bio
Cristina Malegori received in 2015 her PhD in Technological Innovation for Agricultural, Nutritional and Environmental Sciences. Now she works as a post-doctoral fellow in the Research Group in Analytical Chemistry and Chemometrics at the University of Genova. Her research activity is mainly focused on the application of innovative analytical strategies based on near-infrared spectroscopy and hyperspectral imaging. An important topic of her research is the extraction of significant information embodied within complex data arrays by means of advanced chemometric techniques. With her background in food science and technology, Cristina mainly applies this approach to food samples, with the aim of understanding the complex biochemical activities that occur during food processing/degradation. She is secretary and treasurer of the board of the Italian Society of NIR Spectroscopy (SISNIR).

Federico Marini

admin November 23, 2018
Presentation Topic
Chemometric tools for aquaphotomics (Abstract)
Bio
Dr. Marini received his MSc from Sapienza University of Rome in 2000 where he also completed his PhD in 2004. He is currently associate professor of Chemometrics at Sapienza University of Rome. In 2006, he was awarded the Young Researcher Prize from Italian Chemical Society and in 2012 he won the Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems Award “for his achievements in chemometrics”. He has been visiting researcher in various Universities (Copenhagen, Stellenbosch, Silesia, Lille). His research activity is focused on all aspects of chemometrics, ranging from the application of existing methods to real world problems in different fields to the design and development of novel algorithms. He is author of more than 110 papers in international journals, and recently he edited and coauthored the book Chemometrics in food chemistry (Elsevier). He is member of the Editorial boards of Chemolab, Analytica Chimica Acta, J. of Chemometrics, J. of NIR Spectroscopy, J. of Spectral Imaging and he serves as Associate Editor for Chemometrics in Wiley’s Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry. He is currently the coordinator of the Chemometric group of the Italian Chemical Society and a member of the Chemometric study group of EUCheMS.

Yasue Mitsukura

admin November 23, 2018
Presentation Topic
Neuro signal processing and mathematical modeling for KANSEI and sleep stage decision using EEG and heart rate (Abstract)
Bio
Current position
Professor, Department of System Design Engineering at Keio University.
(Deputy director of KEIO leading-edge laboratory of science and technology)
(Chief Technical Officer of Dentsu Science JAM co. Ltd.,)

Teaching activities
Teaching courses include Circuit and Systems, Signal Processing, and Bio-medical Signal Processing. For engineering students and M.Sc students.

Research interest
– Bio-medical Signal Processing (EEG, ECG, EOG, EMG, EKG),
– Image Processing,
– Sleep Engineering,
– Mathematics,
– Brain Computer Interface and Brain Machine Interface

Career
Professor at Department of System Design Engineering, Keio University, 2018
Associate professor at Department of System Design Engineering, Keio University, April 2011-2017,
Associate Professor at Department of Bio-Application & Systems Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, January 2005-March 2011,
Lecturer at Department of Information Educations, Okayama University, January 2002 – December 2004,

Supervision of thesis in 2018
7 PhD students
12 Master students
5 Bachelor students

Summary of Publications
International Journals 42
Domestic (Japanese)Journals 40
Books and chapters in books 13
International conferences 425

International Activity
International collaboration 12 countries

Bernhard Pollner

admin November 23, 2018
Presentation Topic
Workshop – Aquaphotomics Data Analysis (Abstract)
Bio
Graduated to MD from Innsbruck Medical School in 2004 and has been involved in various fields of science since then, always with a focus on non-mainstream and unconventional topics. He works as a scientific consultant for a well known Austrian company, and one of his main interests is water resp. water in biological systems. He worked one year as a visiting scientist in the water-research laboratory of Prof. Gerald Pollack at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, followed by a stay at Kobe University, Japan, where he started working with the Aquaphotomics data-evaluation approach of near infrared spectroscopy data. He is specialized in developing and implementing data-analysis and – visualization workflows and easy to use, yet powerful near infrared spectroscopy data evaluation techniques. Currently, Dr. Pollner is a PhD-Student at the Department of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria, where he studies the microbiological effects of physical treatment of water.