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Prof. Osamu Tabata |
Bio: Osamu Tabata received his M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, in 1981 and 1993,
respectively. Since April 2005, Osamu Tabata has been a Professor at Graduate
School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan. October 2019, he moved to Kyoto
University of Advanced Science as a founding Dean of New Engineering School
launched in April 2020. From 2022 Dec, he is an Executive Vice President and
Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. He is currently engaged in research on
micro/nano processes, MEMS, DNA nanotechnology.
He is an editorial board member of the Microsystems & Nanoengineering and
Journal Sensors and Actuators. From 2020, he has been serving as a chair of the
Robert Bosch Award Committee for EDS. He is a Fellow of Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers and Institute of Electrical Engineer Japan.
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Prof. Dae-Eun Kim |
Bio: Professor Dae-Eun Kim is currently a Full Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Professor Kim received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. Professor Kim served as the President of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering and the President of the Korean Tribology Society. He also served as the Editor-in-Chief of IJPEM, Senior Editor of JMST, and Associate Editor of ASME J. of Tribology. He currently serves in the editorial board of several tribology journals including Tribology Letters and Friction. Professor Kim has received many awards from various professional societies and institutions including the Ministerial Commendation from the Korea Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, and the Science and Technology Pojang National Award from the Korean President. Professor Kim is a Fellow of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP) and a Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology. His research interests are tribology, coatings and surface modification.
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Prof. Sarawut Rimdusit |
Bio: Dr. Sarawut Rimdusit is a full professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. He received his master and doctoral degrees from the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA in 1997 and 2000, respectively. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow under a Hitachi research fellowship in 2005 and 2008 at Toyohashi University and Technology and Monbusho research fellowship in 2003 at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA, formerly ISAS). His research is concentrated on multicomponent polymeric systems based on polybenzoxazines and some network forming polymers. His recent research focuses on the use of polybenzoxazine alloys as functional materials including shape memory materials and thermoreversible light scattering polymers. He has published 1 book on polybenzoxazine alloys and composites (Springer), 10 book chapters in English, 4 book chapters in Japanese and more than 70 international papers related to the alloys and composites of polybenzoxazines.
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Prof. Yasuhiro Morisaki |
Bio: Yasuhiro Morisaki is Professor at Kwansei Gakuin University. He graduated from Kyoto University in 1995, and then, he received Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 2000. After a six-month postdoctoral stay at Osaka National Research Institute (currently called as National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Kansai), he became Assistant Professor at Kyoto University in 2000. From 2004 to 2005, he carried out postdoctoral work at the University of Alberta. He became lecturer at Kyoto University in 2008 and full Professor at Kwansei Gakuin University in 2015. His research interests focus on polymer and organic synthesis, in particular, synthesis of functional molecules based on planar chiral cyclophane for opto-electronic materials.
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Prof. Anja Pfennig |
Bio: Prof. Anja Pfennig was born in Büdelsdorf, Germany in 1970. She studied Minerology at the Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University Bonn, Germany, where she graduated in 1997. Her Ph.-D. in the field of ceramic moulds for liquid metal casting was earned in 2001 from the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen, Germany. She then worked for Siemens Energy in charge of ceramic shields for stationary gas turbines and transferred to Berlin in 2008 where she conducted scientific research on the oxidation of high temperature materials and corrosion behavior of steels used in Carbon Capture Techniques. 2009 she became full professor at the Applied University Berlin, HTW where she currently teaches material science for engineering students. Anja Pfennigs research interest and expertise is in the field of corrosion fatigue of materials at high temperature and high pressure simulating geothermal environments.
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Prof. Moeto Nagai |
Bio: Dr. Moeto Nagai is a Professor at the Institute for Research on Next-generation Semiconductor and Sensing Science (IRES²) and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan. His research integrates micro/nanodevices, mechatronics, and computational science to develop innovative biomedical solutions. Current projects include using light-patterned microalgal micromotors for targeted substance delivery and employing nanosecond lasers in nanoparticle-based optoporation. He also explores cell screening methods using GelMA hydrogels and collaborates on biosensor development for cancer biomarkers. Recognized with the MEXT Young Scientists' Prize in 2018, Dr. Nagai continues to advance nano-enabled technologies for healthcare applications.