
Sung-Jun Yoo
Sub-coordinator (Social Design Division),
Associate Professor
Kyushu University Platform of Inter-/Transdisciplinary Energy Research
Tel: 092-802-6895
Email: yoo.sungjun.917@m.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Buildings account for 30% of the total CO2 emissions in Japan, and to achieve carbon neutrality, it is essential to make buildings more energy efficient. On the other hand, due to the effects of the recent coronavirus pandemic, well-being has been attracting even more attention, and architectural environmental design that balances energy conservation and well-being has become important. In order to create an indoor environment that is healthy, comfortable, and productive, it is important to comprehensively predict and evaluate the interaction between indoor environmental elements and the human body, but in the case of experiment-based research, due to time, space, cost, and ethical constraints, numerical experiments (simulations) based on digital twins of the built environment have attracted attention as a new approach to research in recent years. This laboratory is engaged in research on the development and utilization of numerical analysis models that enable comprehensive evaluation of the quality of the indoor environment, represented by the thermal environment and air quality, as well as human health and comfort.
Curriculum Vitae
2013
Master of Engineering, Department of Architectural Engineering, Yeungnam University, Korea
2016
Doctor of Engineering, Department of Energy and Environmental Engineering, IGSES, Kyushu University, Japan
2016 – 2017
Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan
2017 – 2021
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan
2021 – 2022
Research Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan
2022 – 2023
Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan
2023 – present
Associate Professor, Platform of Inter-/Transdisciplinary Energy Research, Kyushu University, Japan
Featured research

Effect of crowd density, wind direction, and air temperature on the formation of individual human breathing zones in a semi-outdoor environment
Islam.M.S. Abouelhamd, Kazuki Kuga, Sung-Jun Yoo, Kazuhide Ito
Sustainable Cities and Society, Vol.103, 105274, 2024.4

Validation, verification, and quality control of computational fluid dynamics analysis for indoor environments using a computer-simulated person with respiratory tract
Sung-Jun Yoo, Kazuhide Ito
Japan Architectural Review, Vol.5, No.4, pp.714-727, 2022.10.

Multi-stage optimization of local environmental quality by comprehensive computer simulated person as a sensor for HVAC control
Sung-Jun Yoo, Kazuhide Ito
Advances in Building Energy Research, Vol.14, No.2, pp.171-188, 2020.4

Assessment of Transient Inhalation Exposure using in silico Human Model integrated with PBPK - CFD Hybrid Analysis
Sung-Jun Yoo, Kazuhide Ito Sustainable Cities and Society, Vol.40, pp.317-325, 2018.7
