Faculty Staff
Environmental Principles
Zhang, Runsen
Associate Professor
PhD (Kyoto University)
PhD (Kyoto University)
Urban engineering, low-carbon urban and transport planning, climate change mitigation
rzhang[at]edu.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp
TEL: +81-4-7136-4811
Profile
Runsen Zhang received his Ph.D. in Urban Engineering from Kyoto University in 2015. After graduation, he worked as a researcher at Kyoto University and later as a research associate at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES). In 2018, he joined Hiroshima University as an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation and the Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering. In September 2022, he became an Associate Professor at the Sustainable Society Design Center of the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at the University of Tokyo.
He is engaged in interdisciplinary research spanning urban engineering, transport planning, energy, and climate change, with a particular focus on in low-carbon urban and transport planning, land use-transport interaction modeling, E3 (Energy-Environment-Economy) models, and climate change mitigation strategies.