Shuhei Tanaka
Kyoto University
Shuhei TANAKA is an Associate Professor of Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan and is a committee member of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization. He also is an expert of ISO TC38 (Textile) and ISO TC147 (Water Quality). For about 20 years, Dr. Shuhei TANAKA’s research has focused on water quality, especially per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs), microplastics, nanoplastics, and nature restoration, which resulted in 134 published manuscripts, 172 international presentations, 298 oral presentations. He was a project representative of the environment research and technology development funds (4-1801, 5-2101).
10:00 - 11:15 AM
December 8, 2026
Session 1 - Advances in Measurement & Quantification
- From cycle averages to event-based factors for tire and road wear particle emissions
Speaker: Melis Seren Celenlioglu - Occurrence, Morphology, and Component Content of 1-300 μm Microplastics in Tire and Road Wear Particles at Urban Intersections
Speaker: Shuhei Tanaka - Machine learning-assisted optical photothermal infrared microspectroscopy for tire and road wear particle identification
Speaker: Meibe He - Tire and road airborne particle emissions of passenger car tires under real-world conditions
Speaker: Dimitrios Kontses - Characterizing aircraft tire wear particles during landing events: an underexplored source of non-exhaust emissions in aviation operations
Speaker: Gurman Kaur