Shin-ichi Tanabe, Prof., Ph.D.
President
Architectural Institute of Japan
Tokyo, Japan

Shin-ichi Tanabe is a professor at the Department of Architecture, Waseda University, Japan. President of Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ). Council member, Science Council of Japan. Fellow member of American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). He is a former president of the Society of Heating and Air-Conditioning and sanitary engineers, Japan.

He contributed to the theory of thermal comfort and indoor air quality towards to the Zero energy buildings. His research group has conducted numerous studies on ZEB and wellness for housing and buildings. He is Chair of ISO/TC146/SC6 (Indoor Air).

He graduated from the Department of Architecture, Waseda University in 1982. He worked as guest student at Technical University of Denmark during 1984-1986; as a visiting scholar at University of California, Berkeley during 1992-1993 and at Lawrence National Laboratory (LBNL) in 1996. He was a guest Professor at the Technical University of Denmark during 2002-2003.
He is serving for government committees of energy policy, energy efficiency, and ZEB.

Dr. Y-H De Roeck has been educated in France as civil engineer (Ecole Polytechnique, ENPC) and applied mathematician (PhD, University Paris-Dauphine). In 1991 he joined Ifremer, the leading French oceanographic institute, contributing to numerical modelling programs from composite materials for marine usage to geophysics and coastal oceanography. His experience comprises: operational oceanography, environmental monitoring program, contribution to data policy at the European level. Since 2012, as Executive Director of France Energies Marines (www.france-energies-marines.org), he leads a public-private research institute fully dedicated to Offshore Renewables. He is the French delegate and since January 2021 the chairman of the Ocean Energy Systems Technology Collaboration Program of the IEA.