Organization

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The Research Center consists of five research divisions and the Strategy Planning Office, which coordinates these divisions, promotes collaboration between divisions and external research institutions, and serves as a hub while formulating mid- to long-term visions for the Center’s operations. The Center also has an Administrative Office to provide administrative support for all Center activities.

Researchers

	Affiliation	Research Division	Assignment	Research Field
Yu Itahashi (Division Head)	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor	Division of Archaeology	Full-time	Archaeological Science, Chronometry
Osamu Maeda	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor		Part-time	Neolithic Studies
Yutaka Miyake	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor		Full-time	Prehistoric Studies
Jun Ikeda	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor	Division of Assyriology	Full-time	Akkadian Linguistics, West Semitic Linguistics
Daisuke Shibata (Director, Division Head)	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor		Full-time	Mesopotamian History
[To be appointed in September]	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences		Full-time	Hittite History
[To be appointed in September]	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences		Full-time	Mesopotamian History
Nozomu Kawai (Division Head)	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor	Division of Egyptology	Full-time	Egyptian Political History and Archaeology
Tokihisa Higo	Faculty of Art and Design, Assistant Professor		Part-time	Egyptian Religious History
So Miyagawa	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor		Full-time	Egyptian Linguistics and Coptic Studies
Kei Ikehata	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Associate Professor	Division of Earth Science	Full-time	Ore Deposit Studies, Metal Isotope Analysis
Yoshihito Kamata	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Associate Professor		Part-time	Geology
Masanori Kurosawa (Division Head)	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Associate Professor		Full-time	Mineralogy, Microanalysis
Kimikazu Sasa	Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, Associate Professor		Part-time	Accelerator Science
Teruyuki Maruoka	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Associate Professor		Part-time	Geochemistry, Sulfur Isotope Analysis
Shuhei Kimura	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor	Division of Modern and Contemporary Urban Environment and Cultural Heritage	Part-time	Cultural Anthropology
Akifumi Shioya	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor		Part-time	Modern and Contemporary History
Yoko Taniguchi	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor		Full-time	Cultural Heritage Science
Kosuke Matsubara (Division Head)	Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, Associate Professor		Full-time	Urban Planning

Researchers

Division of Archaeology

Yu Itahashi (Division Head)
Affiliation	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor
Assignment	Full-time
Research Field	Archaeological Science, Chronometry

Osamu Maeda
Affiliation	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor
Assignment	Part-time
Research Field	Neolithic Studies

Yutaka Miyake
Affiliation	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor
Assignment	Full-time
Research Field	Prehistoric Studies

Division of Assyriology

Jun Ikeda
Affiliation	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor
Assignment	Full-time
Research Field	Akkadian Linguistics, West Semitic Linguistics

Daisuke Shibata (Director, Division Head)
Affiliation	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor
Assignment	Full-time
Research Field	Mesopotamian History

[To be appointed in September]
Affiliation	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Assignment	Full-time
Research Field	Hittite History

[To be appointed in September]
Affiliation	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Assignment	Full-time
Research Field	Mesopotamian History

Division of Egyptology

Nozomu Kawai (Division Head)
Affiliation	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor
Assignment	Full-time
Research Field	Egyptian Political History and Archaeology

Tokihisa Higo
Affiliation	Faculty of Art and Design, Assistant Professor
Assignment	Part-time
Research Field	Egyptian Religious History

So Miyagawa
Affiliation	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Associate Professor
Assignment	Full-time
Research Field	Egyptian Linguistics and Coptic Studies

Division of Earth Science

Kei Ikehata
Affiliation	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Associate Professor
Assignment	Full-time
Research Field	Ore Deposit Studies, Metal Isotope Analysis

Yoshihito Kamata
Affiliation	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Associate Professor
Assignment	Part-time
Research Field	Geology

Masanori Kurosawa (Division Head)
Affiliation	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Associate Professor
Assignment	Full-time
Research Field	Mineralogy, Microanalysis

Kimikazu Sasa
Affiliation	Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, Associate Professor
Assignment	Part-time
Research Field	Accelerator Science

Teruyuki Maruoka
Affiliation	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Associate Professor
Assignment	Part-time
Research Field	Geochemistry, Sulfur Isotope Analysis

Division of Modern and Contemporary Urban Environment and Cultural Heritage

Shuhei Kimura
Affiliation	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor
Assignment	Part-time
Research Field	Cultural Anthropology

Akifumi Shioya
Affiliation	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor
Assignment	Part-time
Research Field	Modern and Contemporary History

Yoko Taniguchi
Affiliation	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor
Assignment	Full-time
Research Field	Cultural Heritage Science

Kosuke Matsubara (Division Head)
Affiliation	Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, Associate Professor
Assignment	Full-time
Research Field	Urban Planning