Rate My Professor Eiji Nawata

Eiji Nawata is a Professor in the Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability, Comprehensive Survivability Program, and the Faculty of Agriculture at Kyoto University, where he earned his undergraduate degree from the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, a Master of Agricultural Science from the Graduate School of Agriculture, Division of Agronomy and Horticulture, and a Doctor of Agricultural Science. He currently serves as Director of the Kyoto University ASEAN Center within the International Strategy Office and holds positions such as Chair of the ASEAN Base Network Meeting and member of the Partnership Specialized Committee. Nawata previously served as Dean of both the Graduate School of Agriculture and the Faculty of Agriculture from April 1, 2017, to March 31, 2019, and as Vice-Dean of the Graduate School from April 1, 2013, to March 31, 2017. During his tenure, he chaired numerous committees including the Future Vision Review Committee, Evaluation Committee, Information Security and Systems Committee, Farm and Ranch Liaison Council, Fire Prevention and Disaster Prevention Committee, Radiation Hazard Prevention Committee, Concurrent Employment Review Committee, and others, contributing significantly to administrative leadership in agriculture and international strategy.

His research specializes in tropical agriculture, encompassing agricultural resources in the tropics, evaluation of agricultural systems, stress physiology of tropical crops, and crop evolution, with a focus on physiological and ecological mechanisms of tolerance to environmental stresses such as heat, drought, soil salinization, and waterlogging in tropical crops, particularly those utilized in tropical Asia. Nawata received the Academic Award from the Japanese Society for Tropical Agriculture on March 30, 2007, and the Paper Award from the Japanese Association for Tropical Agriculture on March 27, 2016. Key publications include 'The Interaction between Leaf Allelopathy and Symbiosis with Rhizobium of Ulex europaeus on Hawaii Island' (Plants, 2020), 'Accumulation of capsinoids and capsaicinoids in three Capsicum species during fruit growth' (Acta Horticulturae, 2021), 'Relationship between fallow period, forest vegetation and weeds in swidden agriculture in northern Laos' (AGROFORESTRY SYSTEMS, 2017), and 'Developing a remote sensing based mapping method for swidden land use detection - Case studies in two Karen villages of the Bago Mountains, Myanmar' (Trop. Agric. Dev., 2020). His contributions support sustainable agricultural production in Southeast Asia.