Takafumi Noguchi is Professor at Department of Architecture and Head of White Carbon Research and Promotion Center in the University of Tokyo.  He has supervised 60 Ph.D. students since 1998.  He is President of Japan Society for Finishing Technology and Vice President of Japan Concrete Institute.  He is chairing ISO/TC71/SC8 “Environmental management for concrete and concrete structures” and RILEM Technical Committee “Degradation of organic coating materials and its relation to concrete durability”.  He has received 2013 Publication Award in Japan Society for Civil Engineers, 2017 Concrete Construction Excellence Award in ACI, 2018 Award for Outstanding Concrete Structures Winner in Building Category in fib, and 2019 Paper Prize in Society of Material Science, Japan, and 2023 Paper Prize of Japan Concrete Institute.  His research interest includes for instance development of carbon-negative building materials, conservation of historical concrete structures