Characteristic:
I like Design and Manufactuing

Motto:
Rather than thinking, I will try it.

Favorite words:
They won’t listen to you unless you show how to do it, teach it, let them try it, and then give them positive feedback on their performance. They won’t grow up unless you discuss with them ,listen to them, trust and trust them. (Isoroku Yamamoto )

Hobby:
Hot springs, skiing, alcohol

Role Model:
Kenji Miyazawa, Isoroku Yamamoto

Profile:
Graduated from Iwate Prefecture Morioka, Daiichi High School. Teijin Co., Ltd.(Research and development of artificial leather), Tohoku Pioneer Corporation OLED Division [Development and commercialization of organic EL devices {Organic EL small display} {Various portable displays (the world’s first, organic EL device of red phosphorescent material )}][Development of an organic EL display for automobiles {the world’s first commercialization of automotive OEM organic EL display}], [Development and commercialization of the world’s first & largest organic EL type scalable display]: Development of Geo-Cosmos II of Miraikan – The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation , the world’s first, color-tunable OLED lighting development, commercialization, etc. Doctor (engineering).

Specialized field:
Polymer material engineering, organic EL device.

Assignment:
Flexible device technologies for organic electronic devices (flexible substrates, flexible electrodes, flexible encapsulation, long life, high efficiency, high reliability of organic EL devices)

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Whereever I go in Japan or in the world, a pool and a pub are indispensible

Motto:
Anyway I will try

Favorite words:
Stay foolish

Hobby:
Swimming. Especially swimming in nature and swimming in open water.
(Cocos Crossing competition to be held in Guam at the end of May is the best)

Role Model:
No one particularly

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Studying Organic Synthesis as major in college, I evaluated results of pigment synthesis. During I was in college in 1982/1983, the Seiko Epson Corporation announced a wrist watch featuring an active LCD matrix based TV (30 years before Apple did!). I was extremly impressed about this technology. But as I entered the company, I was able to understand the way of color, so I was developing a color filter for liquid crystal display. After that, I started working on the production line and began to develop flexible displays from 20 years ago. I have developed flexible color filters and flexible LCD, and have been doing application development. After moving to Yamagata University in 2011, I am focusing on developing elemental technologies.

Specialized field:
Pattern processing technology such as printing, film formation, etc.

Assignment:
Gas penetration control of soft device substrate

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I’m tall. I can be found from a distance.

Motto:
Vitality with optimism

Favorite words:
wide perspective

Hobby:
Exercises, Research

Role Model:
My university professor

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Since I was a student, I have been engaged in research and development related to “light”. In student days I studied artificial photosynthesis, after that, I encountered organic EL as a company effort. I have been engaged in light physical property measurement, device development, coated type materials, etc. for more than 10 years, from material design and synthesis of luminescent molecules such as luminescent materials for organic EL. Since coming to Yamagata University from 2011, I am interested in organic thin film formation processes and organic thin film properties, as well as conducting applied research such as organic EL flexibility technology and so on.

Specialized field:
Organic electronics, luminescent molecules, Organic thin films

Assignment:
Thin film formation and observation technology in organic electronics
Especially applied to soft matter

Characteristic:
Always have a challenging spirit and a sense of crisis, do not break a positive attitude.

Motto:
Never forget the beginner’s humility (words of Zeami)

Favorite words:
steadily, step by step.
Great talents mature late.

Hobby:
Walk with pets, Watching movies,Travel etc.

Role Model:
Yozan Uesugi

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1987: Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Research Associate.
1988: University of California, Santa Barbara, Postdoctoral Fellow.
1990: Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc., Senior Researcher.
2001: Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), Senior Researcher.
2009: Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), Research Director.
2010: Yamagata University, Distinguished Research Professor.
2015: Director of Research Center for Organic Electronics, Yamagata University.

Main awards
2008 Award for the Paper Award (The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers)
2010 Fujio Frontier Award (The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers)
2015 Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Prize Science and Technology Award (Research Division)
2015 Yamagata Prefecture Science and Technology Award
etc.

Specialized field:
1. Synthesis of conjugated polymers and studies on optical and electronic properties
2. Development of organic EL materials and research on high performance organic EL devices
3. Development of organic semiconductor materials and research on high mobility organic transistors
4. Research on Flexible Display Foundation Technology
5. Research on printing type organic transistor and integrated circuit application
6. Research on organic transistor type biosensor
A wide range of research fields such as material development, process technology, device development, and its applications.

Assignment:
Key technology 2: Theme leader of soft sensing
1: Foundation technology of printing type high performance organic transistor
2: Fundamental technology of printing type sensor and fusion of information communication
3: 3D surface microcircuit printing foundation technology

Characteristic:
I am not good at getting angry. I get bored easily.

Motto:
Health always comes first

Favorite words:
Children who sleep well grow healthy, happy and strong.

Hobby:
Research, sleeping, craftwork, badminton, table tennis, radio calisthenics

Role Model:
A person who can lecture properly

Profile:
I have been involved in organic electronics research for about 11 years since graduating master’s program. Originally I mainly measured physical properties such as electron spin resonance method, but in the past few years I have expanded the range of research to integrated circuits, wireless communication, sensing and so on. I arrived at Yamagata University in April 2016 and I am enjoying the life of Yonezawa different from Kanto area.

Doctor (Science)
(Tokyo University, 2011)

Specialized field:
Organic electronics, Applied physics

Assignment:
Print type high performance organic transistor

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Eager to pursue the truth · As an experienced academic and industrial expert I value the perspective.

Motto:
Learning from the past, looking at tomorrow and seize the day

Favorite words:
A resesarcher should not become a critic. Let’s offer counter-proposals and ideas.。

Hobby:
Exploring secluded hot springs, ice hockey, beach volleyball, tennis, drive, journey.

Role Model:
Teiji Tsuruta Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo (creator and God Father of polymer biomaterial science)

Profile:
Born in Fukuoka prefecture → Kanagawa · Tokyo → Sapporo → TERUMO Corporation research institute, factory · sales → Hokkaido University → Tohoku University → Germany Max Planck Institute → Yamagata University (simultaneously served at Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) → Kyushu University (simultaneously working at Yamagata University)
Http://www.bio-material.jp/
Http://www.bio-material.jp/en/achievement.html
Http://www.soft-material.jp/
Http://www.soft-material.jp/en/achievement.html

Specialized field:
Soft biomaterial · Medical equipment development · Polymer material chemistry · Biointerface engineering · Cell engineering

Assignment:
Design of biocompatible materials · Biocompatibility treatment of soft robot surface (reduction of foreign substance reaction)

Characteristic:
Laughing loud. I like fun things. I like new things.

Motto:
There is no success without failure

Favorite words:
・Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
・Done is better than perfect.

Hobby:
DIY, reading and research.

Role Model:
Albert Einstein

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Since I was a student, I have conducted research on soft and wet materials, where I especially like gels. I have had the opportunity to belong to the front line research groups of fields such as solid physics, macromolecular · soft matter physics, high molecular physics chemistry, life science etc., and have explored the gel diversely. I joined Yamagata University in 2009 and launched the Soft & Wet Matter Engineering Laboratory (abbreviation: SWEL) to become independent and to integrate the science of gel and mechanical engineering in the new field “Gel Mechanics, Gel Photonics, Gel Robotics”. With the beginning of the 3D printing boom in autumn 2012 we have attracted international attention with the development of a 3D-Gel printer at Yamagata University. To promote research on 3D printers, I founded the Life – 3D printing Innovation Center (abbreviation: LPIC) of Yamagata University in June 2013 and became the director of the LPIC Center. In November 2016 I was involved in the establishment of a university-originated venture “Delight Matter Co., Ltd.” aiming to commercialize 3D gel printers, and I am appointed as a special technical advisor to the company. Doctor of Science (Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1996).

Specialized field:
3D printer, gel mechanics, gel photonics, gel robotics

Assignment:
Development of soft mechanics, especially innovative artificial muscles and soft actuators and their application to soft matter robotics

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I always think about making people’s life more free by using humanoid robotics.

Motto:
Where there is a will, there is a way

Favorite words:
Philosopher Georg Hegel said, “Things develop helically”.

Hobby:
Reading ,Driving

Role Model:
Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (Russian aerospace engineer)

Profile:
• March 2005 – Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo Completed Doctoral Program in Advanced Interdisciplinary Engineering, Doctor (Engineering)
• April 2005 – Science and Technology Promotion Agency Strategic Creation Research Promotion Project Researcher
• April 2006 – Japan Science Foundation Robot Collaborative Research Laboratory, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (JSPS) Special Researcher (PD)
During this time, from June 2006 to February 2008, a visiting researcher at Harvard University
• November 2008 – Lecturer, Department of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
• April 2009 -Postdoctoral Researcher at The French National Center for Scientific Research
• February 2010 – Tenure-track assistant professor ,Yamagata University Graduate School of Science and Engineering
• April 2013 – Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Yamagata University

Specialized field:
Robotics engineering

Assignment:
Social system · Soft matter robotics

Role Model:
あまり目立った特徴がありません。

Motto:
信用は得難く失い易い

Favorite words:
Take it easy.

Hobby:
イラスト，漫画執筆

Role Model:
頑張る人

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・2016年3月に中央大学大学院理工学研究科博士後期課程修了後、4月に現職に着任しました。空気圧ゴム人工筋肉というソフトアクチュエータをメインに研究してきましたが、機能性材料を使った新しいアクチュエータの開発や応用例の研究にも挑戦していきたいと考えています。

Specialized field:
Robotics engineering

Assignment:
Social system · Soft matter robotics

Characteristic:
serious

Motto:
It will be alright

Favorite words:
amiable face with warmhearted words

Hobby:
Moderate exercise, reading, community activities

Role Model:
Grandfather

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For more than ten years I moved to Yamagata University, Faculty of Humanities as a lecturer and have been a professor since 2015. I am consistently researching the international competition of banks.

Specialized field:
Multinational banking theory

Assignment:
Social system research

Characteristic:
A rough character which is sometimes good and sometimes bad

Motto:
once-in-a-lifetime encounter (hence it should be cherished as such)

Favorite words:
Tomorrow is another day.

Hobby:
Trekking, restaurant hunting , traveling

Role Model:
Rikinosuke Ishikawa

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Inside the major topic of developing regional industries, I am focusing on studying environments where SMEs are prone to innovation from the standpoint that local business leaders are SMEs. I have visited many SMEs in various parts of the country so far and conducting research by talking to the management. I have been in Yamagata University since fiscal year 2016 and I am currently conducting a survey on the actual conditions of SMEs in Yamagata Prefecture

Specialized field:
Small business theory, regional industry theory

Assignment:
Market survey of soft matter robotics and element technologies, proposal of social implementation scenario