Hiromichi Hoshina

Presentation Topic
Structure and dynamics of bound water in polymer film studied by THz spectroscopy (Abstract)
Bio
Hiromichi Hoshina, Ph.D.
RIKEN
519-1399 Aramaki-Aoba, Aoba-ku,
Sendai, 980-0845, Japan
Tel: +81-22-228-2124
E-mail: hoshina@riken.jp

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Apr. 1993- Faulty of Science, Kyoto university
Apr. 1998- Master degree
Department of chemitry, faculty of science, Kyoto University
Apr. 2000- Doctor degree
Department of chemitry, faculty of science, Kyoto University
Sep. 2003 Ph.D of science

WORKING HISTORY
Apr. 2000-Mar. 2003 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Fellow
Oct. 2003-Mar. 2005 Department of Chemistry University of Southern California
Research Scholar (Andrey Vilesov Lab.)
Apr. 2005-Mar. 2015 RIKEN Terahertz Sensing and Imaging Team
Research Scientist
Mar. 2015- RIKEN Terahertz Sensing and Imaging Team
Senior Research Scientist

Akifumi Ikehata

Presentation Topic
Opening the black box of NIR prediction for sugar content of fruits: a complementary analysis by aquaphotomics and metabolomics (Abstract)
Bio
1992-1996 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Shizuoka University
1996-2001 Graduate School of Bio-Applications and System Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

2001 – 2008 Postdoctoral Researcher at RIKEN and Kwansei Gakuin University
2008 – National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO)
2012 – Unit leader of Nondestructive Evaluation Unit*

*This unit is also the secretary of Japan Council for Near Infrared Spectroscopy (JCNIRS).
JCNIRS holds and manages the symposium: “NIR Forum” every year.

Key technologies:
 far- and deep-UV spectroscopy
 plasmon resonance spectroscopy
 near infrared spectroscopy
 IR and Raman spectroscopy

Research interests:
 AI aided evaluation of foods and agricaltural products
 metabolomics v.s. aquaphotomics
 solution chemistry (thermodynamics)

Zoltan Kovacs

Presentation Topic
Workshop – Aquaphotomics Data Analysis (Abstract)
Bio
habilitated PhD, associate professor at Szent Istvan University, MSc in Food Engineering (2007), PhD in Food Science (2012) and dr. habil in Food Science (2018). His original scope of research is the application and improvement of machine sensing systems, with major focus on the electronic tongue, it’s related measurement protocol and data evaluation techniques. His early works and adepts in the agricultural, food sciences and pharmaceutical fields, was noticed by the manufacturer of electronic tongue instruments, and he was invited for collaborations. He spent three years as a post-doctorate research fellow in Professor Tsenkova’s group at Kobe University, Japan. Since his post-doc period, he has been working with the near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) using the novel aquaphotomics data evaluation approach. He has also, been investigating the application of aquaphotomics for various systems including biological organisms, different types of water samples, and developing measurement and data evaluation techniques for rapid and non-invasive application of NIRS and aquaphotomics. He has won several research fellowships since he returned to his home institution in 2016. Currently Professor Kovacs collaborates and leads different national and international research projects mainly in the frame of near infrared spectroscopy, aquaphotomics and artificial senses along with their related chemometric methods.

Dusan Kojic

Presentation Topic

A Poor Man’s Guide to AquaPhotomics: Analysis of Variance in Near-Infrared Spectra of Water (Workshop Abstract)
Spectral Component Analysis (Abstract)
Bio
I was born on September 11th 1974. in Belgrade, Serbia. My BSc, MSc and PhD studies were completed at University of Belgrade, Serbia, from 1993 to 2011. My PhD work started with the applications of nanotechnology to medicine by using Magnetic Force Microscopy in scanning human skin histopathology samples. Simultaneously, I became involved with BioImaging applications and signal processing as a part of R&D project aimed at developing a new method called Opto-Magnetic Spectroscopy (OMS) for in vivo screening of skin-cancers and early diagnosis of melanoma. I was involved in developing a customized hardware & software solutions for automated digital acquisition and processing of CCD camera images. As a final result, I have co-authored four papers in the field of OMS, as a hardware & software engineer.

My Post-doc work started at Kobe University where I spent 3 months (during year 2011.) in the laboratory of Prof. Roumiana Tsenkova, to complete the training in a new approach to studying the structure of water called AquaPhotomics and Multivariate analysis of NIR spectra of water and water based solutions.

My recent and current work is based at Keio University, where I transitioned in second half of year 2011, after completion of training at Kobe University, and is focused around AquaPhotomics. I amd currently affiliated with Dept. of Pharmacology at Keio University, Tokyo. I started my work with characterizing intracellular and extracellular water in Chinese Hamster Ovarian (CHO) cell cultures and my work has since expanded to studies of hydration of various small molecules, as well as to AquaPhotomics of human urine.

My current research interests are focused on improving the pre-processing methods for NIR spectra, and its application onto various water based organic and inorganic solutions, with the purpose of elucidating details of quantitative characterization of hydrogen bonding in water.

Angelina Kisselova

Presentation Topic
Pilot Study of Mouthwash Yume Water (Abstract)
Bio
Position: Professor of Dental Medicine
Department: Department of Image and Oral Diagnostics – Sofia;
Institution: Faculty of Dental Medicine, Medical University of Sofia,

Fields of interest:

  • Dental Medicine
  • Oral Medicine
  • Oral Pathology
  • Clinical Immunology
  • Clinical Allergology

Non-university non-government positions:
Vice President, International Medical Association Bulgaria (IMAB)
Honorable member of the Bulgarian Scientific Association of Implantoplogy

Livio Giuliani

Presentation Topic
Mechanisms of storing energy and information in water (Abstract)
Bio
Dr. Livio Giuliani earned his laurea cum laude in Mathematics on Oct. 1974 and served as External Lecturer at the Institute of Mathematics, Sapienza University of Rome (1974/75), earning the Teaching Certificate in Physics with honors and the Teaching Certificate in Mathematics with honors (1976).

Career in Research Institutions
Fellow of the National Group for Mathematical Computer Sciences (GNIM) of Italian Research National Council (CNR), since 1976 (working until 1980).
Fellow of the National Group of Personal Dosimetry for Ionizing Radiation of the Italian Nuclear Energy National Committee (CNEN, working until 1982), since 1976.
Researcher at the Personal Dosimetry Lab of ENPI (Institute of Italian Labor Ministry), whose film dosimetry and TLD procedures were employed to monitor over 40.000 IR exposed workers in Italy, from Apr 18th 1975 until Nov 30th 1982.
Responsible of Informative System of ENPI at Italian Treasure Ministry from Dec 1st 1982 until March 31st 1985.
Researcher at ISPESL (Higher Institute for Prevention and Safety at Work of Italian Health Ministry) from April 1st 1982 until July 22nd 1987.
Senior researcher at ISPESL since July 23rd 1987 until July 7th 1998.
Main professional interests have been protection of people and workers from ionizing and non-ionizing radiations, electric fields, magnetic fields.
Since 1988 up to 2002, on behalf of ISPESL he was in charge of monitoring radiofrequency antennas and co-location facilities as well as high voltage power lines in all the Italian Territory.
Director of researches at ISPESL since July 8th 1998. He was appointed to such position at the Italian Ministry of Health, where such qualification implied the title of full professor, according to the Italian Law 1973/519 and related Decrees (DPR 1980/619 art. 16, DM 2/6/1988 art. 36). The position was recognized starting from March 26th 1993.
Since then, he had the following positions:
– Chief of research programs of the Italian Health Ministry (“finalized researches”) and of ISPESL since 1998
– Chief of the Environmental Radiation and Ultrasounds Research Laboratory of ISPESL form July 8th 1998 up to Aug 31st 2014 (when the Laboratory was no more operative due to the incorporation of ISPESL in INAIL)
– Chief of East Veneto Deputy of ISPESL (in Venice), since Feb 14th 2000 until Dec. 31st 2008
– Chief of East Tuscany Deputy of ISPESL (in Florence), since Jan 1st 2009 until Aug 31st 2015.
– Chief of South Tirol Deputies of ISPESL (in Bozen), since May 24th 2004 until Nov. 10th 2014
In June 1st 2010 ISPESL was incorporated by INAIL (National Institute for Workers Insurances), all such positions were confirmed until to the planned expiring date.

Activity in National and International Bodies and in Courts
As a member of the Italian Working Group for Electromagnetic Field (Decree June 2nd 1997 of the Ministry of Environment) he contributed to the adoption of the Italian Guidelines for N.I.R. Exposures (Decree 1998/381) and of the Italian Law 2001/36 “Framework of restrictions about electromagnetic people exposures”. He provided the scientific rationale for these acts as editor (together with prof. Giovanni Zapponi) of the position paper of the Italian Ministry of Health: “Joint ISPESL-ISS Document about exposures of People and Workers to Electric, Magnetic and Electromagnetic Fields between 0Hz and 300 GHz”. He was the author of the “Addendum of ISPESL” to such Document. In the Addendum, exposure limits for Italian people were provided and they were adopted in the Italian Law (both documents were published in Fogli di Informazione ISPESL, 1997, IV Suppl.). Both documents were formally approved by the Italian Parliament, unanimously by the Chamber of Representatives with Mozione 1-00360/1999 and by the Senatus in the Commission for Environment. He was appointed (with Dr. Crescimanno) from the Italian Health Ministry to write, the position document of Italy introduced at the EU Council of Ministries, on October 1998, for emending the EU Commission Recommendation Proposal COM1998/268, draft of the Recommendation 1999/519/CE. The Italian position document was written according to the May 5, 1994 and March 10, 1999 EU Parliament Resolutions. The precautionary principle was also proposed as the basis for the EU EMF protection framework.
He was member of EU Council Group of Experts appointed of amending the draft of the EU Rec 1999/519/CE.
He served on the World Health Organization’s Precautionary Principle Working Group (February 2003) and was co-chair at many international meetings.
He is a Co-founder of the International Commission For Electromagnetic Safety (ICEMS) where he has served as spokesman since this organization was founded in 2003 (ICEMS has been quoted as a scientific body of “top scientists” in the Resolution of the Council of Europe 1999/1815 – Annexed Doc 12608, § 44)
He is Member of the Scientific Panel of the European Cancer Research Institute (ECERI) in Brussels (since 2012).
He was Member of the Scientific Panel of the Regional Environment Protection Agency (ARPA) of Emilia Romagna (1999-2001).
He was Member of the Commission for Antenna Siting or Consultant of:
– Land of Lazio (2000)
– Land of Umbria (2002)
– City of Florence (2000)
– City of Rome (1998-2000,2017)
– City of Venice (1999,2006)
– City of Pescara (1999)
– City of Chieti (2000)
– City of Teramo (2000)
– City of Benevento (2004-6)
– City of Monza (2004-5).

Technical Advisor of Italian Ordinary Courts (Tribunale of Lucca, Siena, Catania, Caltagirone), of the Administrative Courts (TAR Lazio, Abruzzo, Campania) and of the Council of the State (Ordinance Oct 20th 2000).
Technical Advisor of the Public Prosecutor of Rome, Belluno, Bolzano, Salerno, Napoli, Viterbo, Vasto.

Academic Activity
After the former activity at University Sapienza of Rome in 1974/5 (see above), he was:
External Lecturer of Bioelectromagnetics at the Higher School of Clinical Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of Camerino (1999-2010)
Lecturer of Mathematics at the Department of Ecology and Biology of the University of Tuscia (2012-2014).
Visiting Professor at the Gazi University, Department of Biophysics, Ankara, hosted by Prof. Nesrin Seyhan, Chief of the Department (2008)
Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Denmark, Department of Nano- and Micro-Technologies, Kr. Lymby, granted by the Otto Monsted Foundation of Copenhagen (Dic 2014/Jan /5)
Responsible of Biophysical Laboratory of Course of Physiotherapy at School of Medicine of University of Abruzzo, Chieti Scalo, since 2016

Research activity
He led a large EMF research program with reference to both fundamental and phenomenological issues of the interaction between EMF and biological systems, with the participation of scientific institutions, including:
– Italian National Council of Researches (CNR, Bologna and Rome Labs),
– Italian Nuclear Energy Committee (ENEA, Frascati, Rome),
– National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN, Milano University Section),
– Cancer Researches Centre “C. Maltoni” of the B. Ramazzini Institute (Bologna)
– University of Florence
– University of Abruzzo (Aquila-Chieti)
– University of Tuscia (Viterbo-Civitavecchia)
– University of Insubria (Varese-Busto Arsizio)
– University Roma 3 (Rome)
– University Sapienza (Rome)
– Humanitas IRCCS (Rozzano, Milan)
– UNESCO World Foundation for Research and Prevention of AIDS (Freiburg)
– Foundation Luc Montagnier (Genève)
He was the Principal Investigator of three Finalized Researches of the Italian Plans of the Health Ministry 1998 and 1999.
He is the Principal Investigator of the Finalized Research of the Italian Plan of the Health Ministry 2009 “ELF induced cardiac stem cells differentiation and maturation and their implant for treatment of heart attacks: a preclinical study”, starting on October 2018.
He participated in several international and national scientific meetings and published several articles on peer reviewed journals, international proceedings books and monographies.

Tomohiro Hayashi

Presentation Topic
Interfacial water endowing materials with bioinertness (Abstract)
Bio
Education and degrees
Ph.D. May 2003, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, (University of Heidelberg), Germany (Supervisor: Prof. Michael Grunze)

Current and previous positions
2003-2006
Postdoctoral Fellow:
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Guest Researcher, Local Spatio Temporal Lab in RIKEN

2006 Apr- 2007 May
Researcher
National Metrology Institute of Japan: NMIJ
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology: AIST

2007 June-2010 June
Assistant professor:
Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

2010 July-Present
Associate professor:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Yoshihisa Harada

Presentation Topic
RIXS study on hydrogen bonding network of water at interfaces (Abstract)
Bio
Yoshihisa Harada was born in Gifu, Japan in 1972 and received a ME, 1997 and a PhD in applied physics at the University of Tokyo, Japan, 2000. He was a postdoc at RIKEN Harima Institute for 7 years and then moved to the University of Tokyo. He was a contract lecturer from 2007 to 2009 and contract associate professor from 2009 to 2011 in applied chemistry and Synchrotron Radiation Research Organization at the University of Tokyo. He moved to the Institute for Solid State Physics, the University of Tokyo in 2011 as an associate professor, and promoted to professor in 2018, which is his present position as well. His research interests are soft X-ray emission spectroscopy, core-induced dynamics and its applications, electro catalysis in fuel cells, electronic structure of water and aqueous solutions, interfaces and biomaterials. He constructed in total seven soft X-ray emission spectrometers in Japan, always following the No.1 energy resolution and stability in the world. He received Best Paper Award from The Physical Society of Japan in 2004 and Young Scientist Award from Japanese Society for Synchrotron Radiation Research in 2005.

Jing-Yan Han

Presentation Topic
QiShenYiQi Pills®, a compound Chinese medicine attenuates cardiac microvascular permeability induced by ischemia/reperfusion in rats (Abstract)
Bio
Position: Professor and Chairman, Department of Integration of Chinese and Western Medicine, Peking University
Health Science Center
Director, Tasly Microcirculation Research Center, Peking University Health Science Center
Educations
1977-1982 Liaoning University of Chinese Medicine
1986-1989 Graduate School of Liaoning University of Chinese Medicine
1993-1999 Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine

Degree
1982,12 M.D, Liaoning University of Chinese Medicine, China
1989,7 Master, Liaoning University of Chinese Medicine, China
2002,10 Ph.D, Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Jiapan
Professional and Teaching Experiences
1982-1986 Assistant Professor, Department of Basic Chinese Medicine, Liaoning University of Chinese Medicine
1989-1991 Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Physiology, 2nd Affiliated Hospital,
Liaoning University of Chinese Medicine
1991-1993 Visiting Researcher, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine.
2000-2002 Visiting Researcher, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine
2002-2009 Co-Researcher, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine
2004-present Director, Tasly Microcirculation Research Center, Peking University Health Science Center
2008-present Professor, Department of Integration of Chinese and Western Medicine,
School of Basic Medical Science, Peking University
2009-present Professor and chairman, Department of Integration of Chinese and Western Medicine,
School of Basic Medical Science, Peking University
2009-present Guest Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine
2009-present Director, Key Laboratory of Microcirculation, State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People’s Republic of China.
2010-present Professor and chairman, Department of Integration of Chinese and Western Medicine,
Peking University Health Science Center
2012- present Director, Key Laboratory of Stasis and Phlegm, State Administration of Traditional Chinese
Medicine of the People’s Republic of China.
Membership in Professional Societies
1. Vice-president of China Society of Microcirculation.
2. President of the Professional Committee of Microcirculation, Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine
3. President of the Specialty Committee of Qi-Blood, World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies
4. President of the Professional Committee of Phlegm-Stasis, China Society of Microcirculation.
5. President of the Professional Committee of Microcirculation, China Pathophysiological Society
5. Councilor member of Japan Society of Microcirculation
6. Vice-president of Japan Society for Clinical TCM
7. Councilor member of International Liaison Committee for Microcirculation
Editor in chief
World Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Associate editor
Microcirculation
Frontiers in Physiology-Vascular Physiology

Rasmus Gaupp-Berghausen

Presentation Topic
Evaluation of water or water containing liquids on their form-giving characteristics (Abstract)
Bio
Rasmus Franciscus Gaupp-Berghausen was born 01.09.1974 in Austria.Between 1993 and 2002 he studied Landscape Architecture and Planning at the University of Bodenkultur in Vienna and Agricultural Science at the Royal University of Veterinary and Agriculture in Copenhagen. R. Gaupp-Berghausen put his main focus during his studies in Europe and also during further studies in Central America on water.

In May 2018 Rasmus Gaupp-Berghausen got elected as Co-President of the International Light Association (ILA). https://www.international-light-association.org The ILA is a uniquely collaborative group of light and colour therapy practitioners, health professionals, scientists, educators, product manufacturers, artists, architects, interior designers and philosophers who are passionate about learning and applying the latest theories, techniques and technologies regarding how light and colour can promote health, enhance performance and learning and raise consciousness.

During the last years Rasmus Gaupp-Berghausen has been invited in over 40 countries presenting his work in lectures and workshops. He speaks besides German, English, Danish and Spanish fluently. He lives today with his wife and four children in the western part of Austria.