Kazuhiro Hono
NIMS Fellow,
Director of Magnetic Materials Unit
and
Professor, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of
Tsukuba
email: kazuhiro.hono@nims.go.jp
Phone: +81-298-59-2718 Fax: +81-298-59-2701
EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- 2006 - present: NIMS Fellow and Managing Director of Magnetic Materials Center (currently, Magntic Materials Unit)
- 2004 - 2006: NIMS Fellow and Director of Metallic Nanostructure Group
- 2002 - 2004: Director, Metallic Nanostructure Group, Materials Engineering
Laboratory, NIMS
- 1998 - 2002: Head of 3rd Laboratory, Materials Physics Division, National Research Institute for Metals
- 1995 - 1998: Senior Researcher, National Research Institute for Metals
(now NIMS)
- 1990-1995: Research Associate, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University
- 1988-1989: Post Doctoral Research Associate: Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Carnegie
Mellon University
ADJUNCT APPOINTMENTS
- 11.9 - present: Guest Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- 10.5 - present: Adjunct Professor, GIFT, POSTECH
- 07.4 - 11.3: Visiting Professor, New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku University
- 04.3 - present: Professor, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba
- 03.10 - 04.3: Professor, Institute for Materials Science, University of Tsukuba
- 99.7 - 03.10: Associate Professor, Institute for Materials Science, University of Tsukuba
- 00.4 - 00.9: Visiting Associate Professor, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University
- 95.7 - 96.3: Visiting Associate Professor, Institue for Materials Research,Tohoku
University
- 94.4 - 95.3: Visiting Scientist, National Research Institute for Metals
- 92.9 - 92.12: Gauss-Professor, Institute for Metal Physics, University
of Goettingen
RESEARCH INTEREST
- Magnetic materials (hard amgnets, soft magnetic materials, half-metals,
Heusler alloys)
- Magnetic recording media
- Magnetoresistance (CPP-GMR using Heusler alloys)
- Structure-property relationships of metallic materials
- Nanocrystalline alloys
- Precipitation hardening of aluminum and magnesium alloys
- Atom probe field ion microscopy and transmission electron microscopy
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Opportunity of Graduate Study
Call for applications to the NIMS/Tsukuba gradute program
