My research target is on safe, stable and sustainable water systems including treatment and supply, and water-related health issues such as microbial contamination of water and feasible disinfection technologies are of particular interest. UV disinfection has been the top priority field of study in my research career. Besides large-scale municipal water supplies, I am also interested in small-scale decentralized water treatment systems to be owned, operated and maintained by a community or each household, and several field-testing projects of such small systems have been conducted in remote areas with limited/no access to public water supplies. Moreover, water treatment systems for industrial and medical applications have been challenged in my research scope.
– Water supply systems
– Water treatment technologies
– Ultraviolet (UV) disinfection
– Application of UV-LED to water treatment
– Small-scale decentralized water treatment and supply systems
– Health-related microorganisms in water
March, 2003
Ph.D., Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Urban Engineering, The University of Tokyo
April, 2003
Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Engineering, The University of Tokyo
April-September, 2005
Visiting Research Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University
October, 2008
Senior Assistant Professor (Lecturer), Department of Urban Engineering, The University of Tokyo
April, 2015
Associate Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
April, 2019
Associate Professor, Department of Urban Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
December, 2023
Professor, Department of Urban Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
• Majid Keshavarzfathy, Yamato Hosoi, Kumiko Oguma, Fariborz Taghipour.
Experimental and computational evaluation of a flow-through UV-LED reactor for MS2 and adenovirus inactivation.
Chemical Engineering Journal, 127058, 2020.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2020.127058
• Sachithra Imbulana, Kumiko Oguma, Satoshi Takizawa,
Evaluation of groundwater quality and reverse osmosis water treatment plants in the endemic areas of Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) in Sri Lanka. Science of The Total Environment, 745, 140716, 2020.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140716
• 小熊 久美子, 渡邊 真也.
分散型水処理技術としての活用を想定した紫外発光ダイオード（UV-LED）装置の実証
水環境学会誌, 43(4), 119-126, 2020.
• 佐渡 友康、小熊 久美子、橋本 崇史、風間 しのぶ、滝沢 智,
深紫外LEDを用いた紫外線のパルス照射による大腸菌の不活化
土木学会論文集G(環境) , III_91-96, 2019.
• 政池美映、小熊 久美子、橋本 崇史、滝沢 智,
凝集状態にある大腸菌の紫外線不活化特性
土木学会論文集G(環境) , III_85-90, 2019.
• Bernice Yu Jeco, Aris Larroder and Kumiko Oguma,
Techno-social feasibility analysis of solar-powered UV-LED water treatment system in a remote island of Guimaras, Philippines. Journal of Photonics for Energy, 9(4), 043105, 2019.
doi: 10.1117/1.JPE.9.043105
• Kumiko Oguma, Surapong Rattanakul and Mie Masaike,
Inactivation of health-related microorganisms in water using UV light-emitting diodes, Water Science and Technology: Water Supply, 19 (5), 1507-1514, 2019.
doi: 10.2166/ws.2019.022
• Kumiko Oguma,
Inactivation of feline calicivirus using ultraviolet light-emitting diodes. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 365(18), 1-4, 2018.
DOI: 10.1093/femsle/fny194
• Bibas Guragai, Takashi Hashimoto, Kumiko Oguma and Satoshi Takizawa,
Data logger-based measurement of household water consumption and micro-component analysis of an intermittent water supply system
Journal of Cleaner Production 197, 1159-1168. 2018.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.06.198
• Kumiko Oguma, Kaori Kanazawa, Ikuro Kasuga and Satoshi Takizawa,
Effects of UV Irradiation by Light Emitting Diodes on Heterotrophic
Bacteria in Tap Water.
Photochemistry and Photobiology, 94(3), 570-576, 2018.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/php.12891
• Surapong Rattanakul and Kumiko Oguma,
Inactivation kinetics and efficiencies of UV-LEDs against Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Legionella pneumophila, and surrogate microorganisms
Water research 130, 31-37, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2017.11.047
・Innovative UV Application Award. International Ultraviolet Association, 2017年9月
・研究優秀賞. クリタ水・環境科学振興財団, 2016年8月
・Best Teaching Award. 東京大学, 2014年12月
・日本水環境学会論文奨励賞, 日本水環境学会. 2005年
