President:Sukekatsu USHIODA

Name	Sukekatsu USHIODA
Date of Birth	September 18, 1941
Education	1964 A. B. (Physics) of Dartmouth College 1965 M. A. (Physics) of the University of Pennsylvania 1969 Ph.D of the University of Pennsylvania
Specialty	Physics, Surface Properties
Position	President, National Institute for Materials Science
Career History	1969 Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, University of California, Irvine 1974 Associate Professor at the same university 1978 Professor at the same university 1985 Professor, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University (Joint Appointment) 2004 President, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology 2008 Fellow, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) 2009 President, NIMS