ICONN 2010 Plenary Speaker

Yoshiyuki Kawazoe

Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University

I. University Graduation and Research Positions

December 1947 : Born in Sendai, Japan
March 1975 : Dr. of Science, Department of Physics, Tohoku University, Majored in theoretical nuclear physics
April 1975 : Research Associate, College of Arts and Sciences, Tohoku University
(March-August 1981: Invited researcher at Max Planck Institute, Germany)
November 1981 : Associate Professor, Education Center for Information, Processing, Tohoku University
(February-May 1986: Invited Professor at WACAE, Australia)
May 1990 : Professor, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Working on Computer simulation for materials design
(December 1991-February 1992, February-May 1993: Visiting Professor at University of California at Berkeley)
(December 1994- : Advisory Professor at Fudan University, China, April 2004 Director, Computer Center, Tohoku Univ.)

Other main activities outside of Tohoku University

President of Nonprofit Organization Center for Cooperative
Interdisciplinary Sciences (2003~)
Founder of the Asian Consortium on Computational Materials Science (2000~)
Fellow of Materials Research Society India (2002~)
President Nano-Science and Technology Society Japan(2008~)

II. Prizes :

1. November, 1991 : Eastern Prize, Indian Embassy
2. March 2003: Distinguished Academic Prize, Japan Institute for Metals
3. January, 2004: Shared University Research Award, IBM
4. September, 2007ACCMS Award, Asian Consortium on Computational Materials Science

III. Publications :

1. "Materials Design by Computer Simulation", Y. Kawazoe, K. Esfarjani, and K. Ohno, Springer(1999)
2. "Advances in Materials Research: Springer-Verlag", Chief Editor, (1998~)
3. "Clusters and Nanoparticles": Springer-Verlag (2002)
4. "Handbook for Nanotechnology Simulation", Kyoritsu(2006) (Japanese)

More than 50 books and more than 800 ISI journal papers with more than 8500 total citations.