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Kensaku MatsunamiPostdoctoral researcher, Ghent University

Email: kensaku.matsunami (at) ugent.be

2021–	Postdoctoral researcher, Ghent University (BIOMATH & LPPAT & PharmaEng)
2021	Postdoctoral researcher, The University of Tokyo (Sugiyama Lab)
2018–2021	Research Fellow (DC1), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2016	Internship, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd., Kaiseraugst, Switzerland

2021	Completion of Global Leader Program for Social Design and Management (GSDM)
2021	Ph.D., Department of Chemical System Engineering, The University of Tokyo
2020–2021	Exchange student, Ghent University, Belgium
2018	Master of Engineering, Department of Chemical System Engineering, The University of Tokyo
2017	Visiting Scholar, Rutgers University, United States
2016	Bachelor of Engineering, Department of Chemical System Engineering, The University of Tokyo

Kensaku Matsunami "Processes 2021 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award," Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), February 2022
Kensaku Matsunami, "GSDM Student Leadership Award AY2020", Global Leader Program for Social Design and Management (GSDM), March 2021
Kensaku Matsunami, "Dean of the School of Engineering Award", The University of Tokyo, March 2021
Kensaku Matsunami, "Young Investigator Researcher Award of the Division of SIS", Society of Chemical Engineering of Japan, November 2020
Kensaku Matsunami, "GSDM Student Effort Award AY2019", Global Leader Program for Social Design and Management (GSDM), March 2020
Kensaku Matsunami, Shuichi Tanabe, Keita Yaginuma, Hirokazu Sugiyama, "Technical Achievement Award of the Division of SIS", Society of Chemical Engineering of Japan, April 2019
Kensaku Matsunami, "Dean of the School of Engineering Award", The University of Tokyo, March 2018
Kensaku Matsunami, "Best presentation award in Department of Chemical System Engineering", The University of Tokyo, March 2018
Kensaku Matsunami, "Student award", SCEJ 83rd Annual Meeting, March 2018
Kensaku Matsunami, "Student award", SCEJ 81st Annual Meeting, March 2016

Kensaku Matsunami, "Development of design framework for solid drug product manufacturing processes" JSPS Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (DC1) JP18J22793 (FY2018–2020, JPY2,200,000)
Kensaku Matsunami, "Economic evaluation of continuous solid drug product manufacturing considering material properties" Research Abroad Grant Award, The New Pharmaceutical Technology and Engineering Foundation (2019, JPY500,000)
Kensaku Matsunami, Study Abroad Musha Shugyo Program, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo (2016, JPY400,000)

Pharmaceutical manufacturing: e.g., solid drug products, continuous manufacturing, and granulation
Healthcare system: e.g., precision medicine, drug price reduction, and countermeasures for a pandemic
Others: e.g., sustainability and policy-making

Process systems engineering: e.g., process synthesis, economic assessment, optimization, surrogate modeling, and hybrid modeling
Powder engineering: e.g., population balance models (PBM)
Statistics and data science: e.g., design of experiments (DoE), multivariant analysis, and machine learning
Programming: e.g., MATLAB and Python

Education: e.g., education in chemical engineering and educational system within a lab
Career planning: e.g., Ph.D. promotion, networking, and global cooperation