Agritech: Innovative Agriculture Using Microwaves and Plasmas

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14           Promotion of reproductive growth of mushroom using electrical stimuli

15           Keeping freshness of agricultural products

16           Enzyme activity control and protein conformational change

17           Plasma applications in microalgal biotechnology

Graham Brodie was awarded his Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1981 and worked in the electrical power industry for some time. In 1997, he joined the Agricultural Department of The University of Melbourne and, after teaching engineering principles to agricultural students for several years, he earned his PhD in 2005. Currently, he is on the Board of Governors for the International Microwave Power Institute; he is on the Research Advisory Board for Chitkara University, Punjab, India; he is an editor with De Gruyter Open; and is the chairman of the Australian Industrial Radio Frequency and Microwave Applications Group. His research interests include using microwave generated plasma to study surface sterilisation of materials and agricultural commodities; microwave heating of biomaterials and soil; microwave pyrolysis of plastic and bio-wastes; using microwaves holography for sensing objects in soil and built environments; improving water use efficiency in agriculture; producing and using renewable energy on farms; on-farm animal waste management; and applications of Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing technologies in agriculture and archaeology. 


Professor Koichi Takaki

Iwate University, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Agri-Innovation Center, takaki@iwate-u.ac.jp

Koichi Takaki received the B. Eng., M. Eng. And Dr. Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from Kumamoto University, Japan, in 1986, 1988 and 1995, respectively. He joined Oita National College of Technology as a research associate in 1989 and was made an assistant professor in 1993. He moved to the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Iwate University as a research associate in 1996 and was an associate professor from 2000. During 2000-2001, he was a visiting scientist at the McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. After that, he was made Professor of Iwate University in 2011. Currently he is also a Vice-Director of Agri-Innovation Center, Iwate University, and a senior member of IEEE. He received Prizes for Science and Technology in the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in April 2016. He frequently explains the role of high-voltage technologies, general sciences, and electrostatic phenomena on thirty-four TV and radio programs including NHK (Ohayo-Nippon, Asa-Ichi, NHK world), TBS (Yumeno-Tobira+, Evening-wide) etc. His current research interests include pulsed power technology such as pulsed ion technol