Tetsuaki TakedaTetsuaki Takeda has been a professor of Graduate Faculty of Interdisciplinary Research, Research Faculty of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Yamanashi since 2008. He was graduated from Kobe University, majored in nucler engineering in 1982, and received his doctoral degree at The University of Tokyo in 1997. He stayed at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) as a visiting researcher from 1993 to 1994. He has transferred his field of academic goal from Japan Atomic Energy Agency to University of Yamanashi in 2008. His research field is the thermo-hydraulics related in not only nuclear energy but also renewable energy. During his service in JAEA, he performed the experiments and analyses of the safety studies regarding the VHTR systems and the nuclear hydrogen production systems developments. Afterward, he has also performed experiment and analysis regarding a ground source heat pump system, solar thermal collector system, heat utilization system using thermoelectric devices, and so on. He served Chairman of Power and Energy Systems Division of Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME). Read More Read Less