Soon-yeol Soh

Country: Korea
Home Institution / Position: The Chon-buk National University, Korea / Professor
Period: March 1, 2018 – August 31, 2018
Host: Prof. Yoshihiro Adachi, Lab of Comparative Agricultural History, Division of Natural Resource Economics
Research Topic: Empirical Research on the Rural Development of “Fuji Farm Village” in the Colonial Chosun: A Comparative History of Agricultural Development Policy in East Asia

Sisir Kumar Mitra

Country: India
Home Institution / Position: Government of West Bengal, India / Division Director
Period: March 1, 2018 – May 31, 2018
Host: Prof. Ryutaro Tao, Lab of Pomology, Division of Agronomy and Horticultural Science
Research Topic: Reproduction biology of tropical and subtropical fruit tree species

Sigitas Šulčius

Country: Lithuania
Home Institution / Position: Linnaeus University, Sweden /Researcher
Period: April 1, 2018 – March 31, 2019
Host: Prof. Yoshihiko Sako, Lab of Marine Molecular Microbiology, Division of Applied Biosciences
Research Topic: The role of virus-cyanobacteria co-evolution in nitrogen cycling and bloom formation

Anastasiya Shtaltovna

Country: Ukraine/Canada
Home Institution / Position: University of Montreal, Canada / Research Collaborator
Period: September 13, 2018 – December 13, 2018
Host: Dr. Hart Nadav Feuer, Lab of Philosophy of Agricultural Sciences, Division of Natural Resource Economics
Research Topic: Geographical Indications out of context: The social and technical challenges of European models of heritage food certification in Asia and Eastern Europe

Md. Kamruzzaman

Country: Bangladesh
Home Institution / Position: Khulna University, Bangladesh / Professor
Period: December 1, 2018 – February 28, 2019
Host: Prof. Akira Osawa, Lab of Forest Utilization, Division of Forest and Biomaterials Science
Research Topic: Stand structure and carbon dynamics of Sundarbans mangrove ecosystems, Bangladesh