Yoko Mizuma is a research engineer working under Frédéric Pousin and Nathalie Roseau on the "Inventing Greater Paris" project.
A graduate in forestry from Ryûkyû University in Okinawa, Yoko Mizuma spent four years working to combat desertification in Burkina Faso. Convinced that landscape was the key to understanding the way of life of all societies, she began studying landscape architecture at the École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage in Versailles in 2009. She then naturally turned to research and completed her thesis in 2017, entitled "Public parks in Japan: a hybrid landscape form—Contributions from the French School of Landscape Architecture." Since 2018, she has been involved in various scientific and experimental projects, both in the field of gardening and urban planning.