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Personal Information

Name:
Kunio Watanabe

Occupation:
Professor

Present Address:
Lab. of Soil Physics and Soil Hydrology, Mie University
1577 Kurima-machiya Tsu, 514-8507, Japan
TEL: +81-59-231-9583
FAX: +81-59-231-9684
E-MAIL: kunio@bio.mie-u.ac.jp
URL: http://www.bio.mie-u.ac.jp/~kunio/

Place of birth:
Nagoya, Japan.

Date of birth:
August 16, 1970.

Sex:
Male.

Nationality:
Japanese


Education:

• Entered Aichi Prefectural Zuiryo High School, April,1986, and graduated March, 1989.
• Entered Faculty of Bioresources, Mie University, April, 1989, and graduated March, 1994, with B.S..
  Graduate paper: Molecular dinamics studies on behavior of soil water -Interaction between Ar fluid and soil walls- (in Japaese).
  Advisor: Dr. M. Mizoguchi (Mie University).
  
• Entered Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, April, 1994, and graduated March, 1996. Obtained an M.S. ("Chikyu Kankyou Kagaku Shushi", Literal translation is Master of Environmental Earth Science.) .
  Master thesis: Experimental study on microstructure near freezing front during soil freezing.
  Advisors: Prof. M. Fukuda, Prof. E. Akitaya and Dr. T. Ishizaki (Hokkaido University).
  
• Entered Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie University, April,1996, and graduated December, 1999.
  Received a Ph. D. December from Mie University for a thesis entitled: "Ice Lensing Mechanism during Soil Freezing".
  Advisors: Prof. M. Aragaki, Prof. M. Tanaka, Prof. A. Shinjo and Prof. K. Fukuyama. (Mie University).

Employment Record:

• 1999 to 2001
  Research fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), taking a project "Study on microstructure near freezing front during soil freezing", under the direction of Prof. M. Aragaki (Faculty of Bioresources, Mie University).
  
• 2001 to 2003
  Research Associate in Laboratoy of Soil Physics and Soil Hydrology, Mie University.
  
• 2003 to 2016
  Associate Professor in Laboratoy of Soil Physics and Soil Hydrology, Mie University
• Visiting researcher at Soil Physics/Vadose Zone Hydrology Laboratory, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University
• 2016 to date
  Professor in Laboratoy of Soil Physics and Soil Hydrology/Vadose Zone Hydrology, Mie University

Membership:

• Japanese Association for Crystal Growth.
• Japanese Society of Snow and Ice.
• Japanese Society of Soil Physics.
• Japanese Society of Irrigation, Drainage and Reclamation Engineering.
• The Japanese Geotechnical Society.
• Soil Science Society of America