Advisors

(As of April, 2011)

Completed doctoral course in faculty of Engineering at University of Tokyo (1969). Served as Associate Professor at Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science (1974), Professor at Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (1988) at University of Tokyo, Director General at the same center (1995), and Director General at the National Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, MITI (1997). Assigned to the first President of NIMS (2001). After retiring as President, appointed as the NIMS Advisor. Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo. Also, assigned as a President of The Japan Federation of Engineering Societies (JFES), and have served as Vice President of The Science Council of Japan (2003-2005).

Majored in Applied Chemistry in faculty of Science and Engineering at Waseda University (1974), completed doctoral course of same major (1979). After serving as an Assistant and Lecturer at Tokyo Women's Medical University, Assistant Professor at University of Utah, Assistant Professor at Tokyo Women's Medical University, served as Professor at Institute of Biomedical Engineering (1994) and director of the same institute (1999). Serving as director of the Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science (2001) at the Tokyo Women's Medical University, also assigned as a Coordinating Director of Nanotech-driven Materials Research for Biotechnology Field and Special Advisor at NIMS from April 2008. Professor at University of Utah from 1994.

Graduated from Tokyo University of Education Department of Science (1968), Graduate School of Science Tokyo University of Education (1971) and took a degree at Osaka University (1974). After serving as Senior Researcher at National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials (1974), served as NIMS Vice President (January 2005), NIMS Auditor (April 2005) and appointed as a NIMS Senior Advisor in April 2010.