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Yukitaka Kato Associate Professor Yukitaka Kato graduated from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in 1985 with a B. Sc. He performed his graduate study at Tokyo Institute of Technology in the Department of Chemical Engineering obtaining his PhD in 1991. He then took up a position as an Assistant Professor at the Research Laboratory for Nuclear Reactors in the Institute. He has been promoted to a position as an Associate Professor at the Laboratory. He visited at the Centre for Study of Environmental Change and Sustainability at the University of Edinburgh, UK as a research fellow in 1998. His research interests are in the area of chemical energy conversion technoloies and energy highly-utilizations. In particular he is concerned with development of some types heat pumps driven by using chemical reactions for heat energy storage and transformation of heats generated from renewable energy sources and human activities. Theramlly regenerative electric power generation system, zero carbon dioxide emission hydrogen carier system using new-type fuel reformer are also his research targets. He is a member of the Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan (SCEJ), the Japna Society of Energy and Resources, and the Atomic Energy Society of Japan. He is the chair of the blanch group for heat utilization in the Division of Energy Engineering of SCEJ, and a sub-leader of COE-INES, 21st Century Center Of Excellence (COE) Program on Innovative Nuclear Energy Systems for Sustainable Development of the World at Tokyo Institute of Technology, He also is related with the following scientific activities. Chair of IMPRES, International Symposium on Innovative Materials for Processes in Energy Systems - for Fuel Cells, Heat Pumps and Related Gas-Solid Technologies -, 28-31 October, 2007, Kyoto Research Park, Kyoto, Japan Sub-leader of COE-INES, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 21st Century Center Of Excellence (COE) Program on Innovative Nuclear Energy Systems for Sustainable Develo