Makoto Usami is Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at Kyoto University and a visiting professor at the Technical University of Munich. After staying as a visiting scholar at Harvard University, he was a full professor at Chukyo University and the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He currently serves as the President of the Public Policy Studies Association, Japan. His areas of specialty include legal and political philosophy, and he has recently worked on climate justice, global justice, intergenerational justice, and moral issues surrounding artificial intelligence, among others. He is the author of four books and a co-author of two textbooks, while also editing eight anthologies in English and Japanese. He has published nearly 80 journal papers and book chapters and given talks at more than 70 international conferences.
Biography: Jun Peng is a Professor of Sustainable Energy Engineering in University of Lincoln, UK. He received his PhD degree from National Engine Combustion Lab, Tianjin University in 1996. After four years working experiences as research fellow in Brunel University and two years as senior development engineer in Ford Motor Company, he held the position of Lecturer since 2004 and Senior Lecture since 2007 in the University of Sussex. Prior to his current appointment, he worked as Professor in Engineering in University of Bedfordshire. Jun Peng’s research interest lies in thermodynamics, fluid dynamics and combustion with applications on IC engines, gas turbines, fuel cells and other sustainable energy systems. His recent research works have contributed to sustainable vehicle powertrain, non-carbon water transport technology, etc. Jun Peng is a Fellow of IMechE, a Fellow of RSC (Royal Society of Chemistry). He is the Associate Editor of IET journal of Electronics Letters (SCI indexed) and an Editorial Board member of Johnson Matthey Technology Review (SCI indexed). He was an invited fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
