Staff Members

As of September 1, 2025

Title, etc.	Name	Remarks
Executive Director	Atsushi TSUNEKAWA	Trustee (Planning and Coordination, Evaluation, Hamasaka Area), Vice President
Deputy Director	Mitsuru TSUBO	Arid Land Research Center Director
Assistant Director to the Executive Director	Reiji KIMURA	Arid Land Research Center Deputy Director

Arid Land Research Center

Affiliation		Title, etc.	Name	Remarks
Arid Land Research Center (ALRC)		Director of ALRC	Mitsuru TSUBO
		Deputy Director of ALRC	Reiji KIMURA
	Division of Desertification Control	Professor	Yasunori KUROSAKI	Learn more
		Professor	Reiji KIMURA	Learn more
		Associate Professor	Takeshi TANIGUCHI	Learn more
		Assistant Professor	Munemasa TERAMOTO	Learn more
		Specially Appointed Assistant Professor
	Division of Dryland Agriculture	Professor	Haruyuki FUJIMAKI	Learn more
		Associate Professor	Ping AN	Learn more
		Associate Professor	Takayoshi ISHIII	Learn more
	Division of Climate Change Response	Professor	Mitsuru TSUBO	Learn more
		Specially Appointed Associate Professor	Yoshihiko ISERI
		Associate Professor	Takusaburo KIMURA	JICA personnel exchange

Units

Affiliation			Title, etc.	Name	Remarks
Collaborative Research Unit			Unit Leader	Yasunori KUROSAKI
			Specially Appointed Professor	Ayele Almaw FENTA	Learn more
			Specially Appointed Associate Professor	Mohamed Mutasim Eltayeb ELEBEID
			Specially Appointed Associate Professor	Banzragch NANDINTSETSEG
	Seeds Research PJ	Climate Change Impacts and Ecosystem Restoration PJ	Professor	Yasunori KUROSAKI	PL (Arid Land Research Center)
			Associate Professor	Toshihiko KINUGASA	Concurrent Faculty (Faculty of Agriculture)
			Associate Professor	Takeshi TANIGUCHI	(Arid Land Research Center)
		Agriculture and Rural Development PJ	Professor	Koji INOSAKO	PL, Concurrent Faculty (Faculty of Agriculture)
			Professor	Satoshi YAMADA	Concurrent Faculty (Faculty of Agriculture)
			Professor	Katsuyuki SHIMIZU	Concurrent Faculty (Faculty of Agriculture)
			Professor	Kumi YASUNOBU	Concurrent Faculty (Faculty of Agriculture)
		Technology Development PJ	Professor	Naonobu KATADA	PL, Concurrent Faculty (Faculty of Engineering)
			Associate Professor	Yuki KAJIKAWA	Concurrent Faculty (Faculty of Engineering)
			Professor	Kotoku OHMI	Concurrent Faculty (Faculty of Engineering)
		Community and Global Health PJ	Professor	Hitoshi OTSUKI	PL, Concurrent Faculty (Faculty of Medicine)
			Professor	Chika TANIMURA	Concurrent Faculty (Faculty of Medicine)
			Professor	Tsuyoshi YAMAGUCHI	Concurrent Faculty (Faculty of Agriculture)
		Sustainable Regional Promotion PJ	Professor	Katsuhiko SHIMIZU	PL, Concurrent Faculty (Platform for Community-based Research and Education)
			Professor	Dai NAGAMATSU	Concurrent Faculty (Faculty of Agriculture)
			Professor	Hiroki YAMASHITA	Concurrent Faculty (Faculty of Regional Sciences)
	Innovation Research PJ		Professor	Mitsuru TSUBO	PL, (Arid Land Research Center) Learn more
			Professor	Nigussie Haregeweyn AYEHU
			Professor	Kinya AKASHI	Concurrent Faculty (Faculty of Agriculture)
			Professor	Haruyuki FUJIMAKI	(Arid Land Research Center)
	Convergence-of-Knowledge Research PJ		Professor	Mitsuru TSUBO	PL, (Arid Land Research Center)
			Associate Professor	Tadao MATSUNAGA	(Faculty of Engineering)
			Professor	Takeshi HIYAMA	(Faculty of Medicine)
Global Learning and Engagement Unit			Unit Leader	Mitsuru TSUBO	Learn more
			Specially Appointed Associate Professor	Nasrein Mohamed Kamal Omer ELFADIL
			Professor	Katsuyuki SHIMIZU	Concurrent Faculty (Faculty of Agriculture)
			Professor	Koji INOSAKO	Concurrent Faculty (Faculty of Agriculture)
Innovation and DX Unit			Unit Leader	Nigussie Haregeweyn AYEHU	Learn more
			Associate Professor	Izzat Sidahmed Ali TAHIR
			Associate Professor	Mariko SASAKURA	Learn more
			Specially Appointed Associate Professor	Takeshi ABE	Learn more
			Professor	Dai NAGAMATSU	Concurrent Faculty (Faculty of Agriculture)
Associate Professor	Masayuki HIGASHINO	Concurrent Faculty (Faculty of Engineering)
Collaborative Creation Division of Climate Change Air Conditioning Solutions (Daikin)
			Professor	Mitsuru TSUBO	(Arid Land Research Center)
			Associate Professor	Takayoshi ISHIII	(Arid Land Research Center)
			Specially Appointed Associate Professor	Takeshi ABE	(Innovation and DX Unit)
			Associate Professor	Tadao MATSUNAGA	Concurrent Faculty (Faculty of Engineering)
			Professor	Kotaro TAGAWA	Concurrent Faculty (Faculty of Agriculture)

Others

Affiliation	Title, etc.	Name	Remarks
	Specially Appointed Professor	Vinay NANGIA	(International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA))
Specially Appointed Part-time Staff	Specially Appointed Part-time Professor	Hisashi TSUJIMOTO	President's Advisor (Hamasaka Area)
Foreign Research Scholar	Visiting Professor	Benjamin Ewa UBI
	Visiting Associate Professor	Demesew Alemaw MHIRET
	Visiting Associate Professor	Ahmed Yehia Ali Ali MADY