Masayoshi Esashi
(Prof.)

Toshihisa Nozawa
(Dr.)

Ichiro Yamashita
(Prof.)

Yang Yang
(Prof.)

Prof. Yang’s research focuses on novel opto-electronic devices based on low-cost plastic materials. The areas of his interests are solar cells, solid state lighting, nano-particle memory and transistor devices, and many other interesting things. His research has enabled the formation of four startup companies in 2001, 2004, 2006, and 2007, respectively.

He leads a research group, consisting of 25 graduate students and postdocs at the Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Henry Samueli School of Engineering, UCLA.

He has published more than 150 refereed papers, given more than 100 invited presentations on his research work and has filed or granted 30+ patents. He received the following awards and honors: NSF Career Award: 1998; 3M Young Investigator Award, 1998; Who is Who in America, (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000); Professional Development Award, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, (1991). He is also serving as the Director of the Center for Organic Opto-electronics Technologies, Zhejiang University, China.

Keiichi Torimitsu
(Dr.)

His research interests are currently focusing on neuroscience and nano-bio science based on receptor protein. He established a unique collaboration for nano-bio research with Univ. Oxford from 2004. NTT BRL Europe was settled in Univ. Oxford.
He received the B.E., M.E and Ph. D degrees in instrumentation engineering from Keio University, Yokohama in 1980, 1982 and 1986, respectively. In 1987, he joined NTT Basic Research Laboratories and worked in the bio-computer project.　From 1986 to 1987, he studied neurophysiology at the Lab. of Physiol., Faculty of Medicine, the Univ. of Tokyo as a guest researcher. For the year 1990-1991, he was a visiting researcher at the NINDS, NIH and studied GABA physiology. From 2005-2006, he was a guest lecturer at Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine. He is now a Visiting Prof. in Physics at University of Oxford from 2005. He is also guest Profs. of Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2006. From 2006 he is an associate editor of IEE proceedings of nanobiotechnology and IET Bionanotechnology from 2007. Vice chair of Japan Nanomedicine Society (from 2006) and other society committee member including funding agency. He received SLOW-MAG award (2002), best poster award (2008) in GRC and several other poster awards.

Hidenori Akiyama
(Prof.)

Hidenori Akiyama received the Ph.D. degree from Nagoya University, Japan in 1979, He was a research associate at Nagoya University from 1979 to 1985, and since then has been on the faculty of Kumamoto University where he established an advanced pulsed power laboratory. He is a leader of the global COE (Center of Excellence) program on pulsed power engineering and the director of Bioelectrics Research Center, at Kumamoto University, Japan. He has been awarded “Major Educational Innovation Award presented by IEEE Educational Activities Board, 2000”, “IEEE Peter Haas Award at Pulsed Power Conference, 2003” and “Germeshausen Award at IEEE Power Modulator Conference, 2008.” He has developed the repetitive and compact pulsed power generators for industrial applications, such as for cleaning exhaust gases, ozone generation, recycling of concrete and metal plated plastics, extremely ultraviolet (EUV) sources for semiconductor lithography and algae treatment in lakes and marshes. Recently, he is actively investigating the effects of pulsed power on living organisms such as induced apoptosis for cancer treatment, gene recombination and food sterilization.

Eva Stoffels
(Dr.)

Eva Stoffels was born in October 1968 in Warsaw, Poland. She obtained M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees, in 1991 and 1994, respectively, in plasma physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands. The topic of her PhD research were dusty low-pressure plasma, plasma chemistry of surface-processing discharges, and elecrtonegative plasmas. In 1995-97 she worked at the Kyoto University on various applications of mass spectrometry in plasma diagnostics. In 2001 she introduced a new concept of treatment of living tissues with cold atmospheric plasmas. At present E. Stoffels is affiliated as a lecturer with the Eindhoven University, where she leads research on non-thermal atmospheric plasmas and their biomedical applications. The main areas of interest are: plasma healing of wounds, fundamental aspects of interactions of cold plasmas with living cells, and dental applications.

Mathieu Renouf
(Dr.)

He received his Ph.D. degrees in 2004 in Mechanics from Montpellier 2 University (France) where he majored in Discrete Element Modeling and Optimisation techniques. He went at Tohoku University to work with Pr. Yuji Kishino in 2003 during a JSPS Summer program. After a one year post-doc position in Virtual Reality, he obtained a Associate researcher position in 2005 in his current laboratory, the LaMCoS (Laboratory of Mechanics, Contacts and Structures), INSA Lyon. His research interests are currently focusing on Tribology, especially wear mechanisms, multi-physic modelling involving thermal, electrical and chemical aspects and homogeneization techniques.

Pawel Keblinski
(Prof.)

Dr. Keblinski is a professor in the Materials Science Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He received his MS degree in Physics from the Warsaw University and Ph.D. degree in Physics from the Pennsylvania State University.  Prior to his RPI appointment he was a postdoctoral researcher at Argonne National Laboratory and Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe.  Dr. Keblinski is a recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and the National Science Foundation Career Award.  Professor Keblinski is also a leader of the modeling group in the Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center. In his research he uses atomic-level computational methods and theoretical analysis to study structure-property relationships.  His main research focus is on modeling of mechanical response and thermal transport in nano-structured materials, nanocomposites and nanofluids and other interfacial materials. His work led to over 100 peer reviewed journal publications.

Hirofumi Daiguji
(Prof.)

Hirofumi Daiguji received the B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Tokyo in 1993, 1995 and 1998, respectively. He joined the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Tokyo as a research associate in 1998. He moved to the Institute of Environmental Studies at University of Tokyo as a lecturer in 1999, and became an associate professor in 2002. From 2002 to 2003, he studied transport and reactions in confined liquids (nanofluidics), at the Nano-Engineering Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of California, Berkeley, as a visiting scholar. His research interests are currently focusing on micro-, nano-, and molecular-scale heat, mass and charge transfer mainly in　energy related technologies. By analysis and control of transport phenomena in material processing and other applications, he designs and develops micro- and nano-structures and their integrated systems. Current research topics include: 1) Transport and reactions in nanofluidic channels for manipulation and detection of ions and molecules, 2) Adsorption and diffusion in porous materials and their application for desiccant heat pump systems, 3) Control of micro- and nano-structure of catalyst layers in polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells, and 4) Fabrication of microcapsules in medical, pharmaceutical and engineering applications.