Maki is a Project Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo, East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts. She concurrently holds a position at the Humanities Center. She is interested in environmental philosophy that includes a new emerging set of skills and ideas that are not limited to AI, robotics, and digital currencies. However, her main interest has been in climate change issues, especially environmental and energy policies seen from a philosophical perspective. She has worked in the field of policy analysis with a special emphasis on environmental and energy policies in Japan and East Asian countries. Her experience as a consultant for the Green Growth project at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) in Bangkok encouraged her to dedicate her doctoral research to environmental philosophy, focusing on the implications of ideas derived from environmental philosophy for innovative and effective global environmental policies. Between 2015 and 2016, she was a Yale Fox International Fellow.

At THE NEW INSTITUTE Maki is working on themes related to “The Human Condition in the 21st Century“.