Satoshi Konishi

Prof. Satoshi Konishi co-founded Kyoto Fusioneering in 2019. He is responsible for technology development, as well as technology planning and strategy as Chief Fusioneer. Satoshi, who has a PhD in Engineering from the University of Tokyo, has been involved in R&D in fusion technology, advanced nuclear system design, and tritium engineering, including on the ITER project, for four decades. In his position at Kyoto University, where he is a tenured professor, Satoshi has been the Chair of the Test Blanket Program for ITER (from 2009) and has also served as the Japanese representative on the ITER committee (2012). As Director of The Institute of Sustainable Science at Kyoto University since 2008, he has also been involved in sustainability science, and has a lifelong ambition to find a solution for harmonized co-existence of humankind and the natural environment.