Marco Nutta
Research field:Marketing
Marco Nutta
Research field:Marketing
●What are your current research interests?
Branding, Brand coolness, consumer behavior, foodservice and lodging marketing
●What do you enjoy most about research?
Learning a new skill each time I start a project.
● What does research mean to you?(In a nutshell)
Discovering the unknown and confirming or denying assumptions
●What inspired you to become a researcher?
My mother because she is a researcher and I always wanted to be like her.
●What are your future goals as a researcher?
I would like to be well-known for brand coolness research. Additionally, my field lacks theoretical development and I would like to one day to contribute to the development of a new theory specific to hospitality and tourism.
Hayato Koga
Research field:Human geography, Political ecology, Energy social science
Hayato Koga
Research field:Human geography, Political ecology, Energy social science
●What are your current research interests?
Energy geography, Decentralisation of energy governance, nuclear waste management
●What do you enjoy most about research?
Learning new things
● What does research mean to you?(In a nutshell)
Producing new things
●What inspired you to become a researcher?
Among various paths, I felt that being a researcher suited me best in addressing environmental and social issues
●What are your future goals as a researcher?
I hope to contribute, even in a small way, to improving issues regarded as environmental or social problems
Ryoya Yamasaki
Research field:Machine Learning, Statistics
Ryoya Yamasaki
Research field:Machine Learning, Statistics
●What are your current research interests?
Ordinal regression, Sparse modeling
●What do you enjoy most about research?
I like being able to decide what to do by myself.
● What does research mean to you?(In a nutshell)
It’s just something I like to do, but I have to be cognizant of a job 🙂
●What inspired you to become a researcher?
I got hooked on ‘PSYCHO-PASS’ and ‘Ghost in the Shell’ when I was in a high school. This led me to informatics and research.
●What are your future goals as a researcher?
I want to do research that will still be cited 100 years from now.
Jonathan Krautter
Research field:Japanese and German Economic and Business History
Jonathan Krautter
Research field:Japanese and German Economic and Business History
●What are your current research interests?
The demise and resurgence of capital controls from 1945 until today.
●What do you enjoy most about research?
Discovering new insights in archival sources.
● What does research mean to you?(In a nutshell)
Producing knowledge that helps us to navigate and interpret the social and natural world(s) we live in.
●What inspired you to become a researcher?
I did not have a particular inspiration. Rather, I wanted to continue doing archival research and immerse myself in worlds of the past.
●What are your future goals as a researcher?
My long-term goal is to contribute to theory formation in industrial policy research by employing historical and qualitative approaches, and help bridge the gap between quantitative and qualitative research.

