As of November 2005

Staff Scientists
Name
Position
Research Fields

Kotobu NAGAI
Director of Metallurgical Processing Group and Director-General of Steel Research Center

Relationship between microstructure and deformation/fracture in metal

Design for Recyclable Materials or Improvement of trade-off properties
Shiro TORIZUKA
Senior Researcher

Metallurgy on ultra grain refinement

Process technology on creation of ultrafine grained steel
Fuxing YIN
Senior Researcher

Internal Friction

Texture

Recrystallization

Tadanobu INOUE
Senior Researcher

Materials and Mechanics

Interfacial Mechanics,

Computational Mechanics
Yoshinao KOBAYASHI
Researcher

Steel refining,

Thermodynamics,

Recyclce process
Toshihiro HANAMURA
Senior Researcher

Structural control

Strength-toughness balance of materials

Crystallographic analysis

Hai QIU
Senior Researcher

Fracture mechanics

Welding mechanics

Safety evaluation of welded structure
Satoshi IWASAKI
Senior Engineer

Team Leader, Process Engineering Team

Operation and support of public equipments


Visiting Scientists
Name
Position
Research Fields
SUSARLA Venkata Surya Narayana Murty

Research Fellow (post-doc: Vikram Sarabhai Space Center, India)
High temperature deformation of materials

Development of deformation processing maps for optimisation of hot workability

Structure-property correlation in materials using optical, scanning and transmission electron microscopy.

Ming-Chun ZHAO

Research Fellow (post-doc: Institute of Metal Research, China)

Thermo-mechanical processing: mechanism, microstructure & control.

Microstructure and property of microalloyed steels: pipeline steel, acicular ferrite/bainite steel, structural steel,

Stress corrosion cracking: hydrogen induced cracking, sulfide stress cracking
YU Liming

Research Fellow (post-doc: Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China) /td>
High damping materials

Damping structures

ZHONG Yong

Research Fellow (post-doc:Institute of Metal Research, China)
Microstructure and fracture behaviors of steels

Mechanical properties of structural materials

Microstructure and fracture behaviors of novel structure materials, especially light alloys.

Takayoshi KITAI

Visiting Researcher
(Tokyo University of Science)
Grain Refinement
Toshihiro MORI

Research Fellow
Plannning, design, and arrangement of equipments and facilities
Eijiro HOSODA

Research Fellow
Liaison actvities to transfer related technologies
Yoshiro HOSODA

Research Fellow
Liaison actvities to transfer related technologies
Nobuo SAKUMA

Special Research Fellow
Process Engineering Team

Operation and support of public equipments (melting/ thermo-mechanical treatment/ forging/ rolling)

Koji NAKAZATO

STX visiting researcher

Process Engineering Team

Operation and support of public equipments (melting/ thermo-mechanical treatment/ forging/ rolling)
Shuji KURODA

Special Technical Staff
Process Engineering Team

Operation and support of public Equipments and Facilities (Forging/ Rolling)
Takaaki HIBARU

Special Technical Staff
Process Engineering Team

Operation and support of public equipments and facilities (Melting)
Masaki FUJIWARA

Special Technical Staff
Process Engineering Team

Operation and support of public equipments and facilities


Temporary Staff
Name
Position

Shigeo YAMAMOTO

Technical Staff

Microstrucutral anaylsis

Etching and polishing of samples

Tensile test/ machining by lathe

Tomoko NOZAWA

Technical Staff

Microstrucutral anaylsis

Etching and polishing of samples

Etsuko TSUCHIYA

Technical Staff

Microstrucutral anaylsis

Etching and polishing of samples

Etsuko MOTOKI

Technical Staff

Office administrator of the Group

Ikuko SAKAMAKI

Technical Staff

Office administraor of a staff scientist of the Group
Huang Lan

Technical Staff
Microstrucutral anaylsis

Etching and polishing of samples
Elena Bulgarevich

Technical Staff
Microstrucutral anaylsis

Etching and polishing of samples
Atsuko SAKURAI

Technical Staff
Collection and analysis of sample data by Scanning Electron Microscope and X-ray analysis plant
Hiromi OKADA

Technical Staff
Office administrator of the Group and Millennium relevant project: creation of ultra steel from steel scrap

Process Engineering Team

Name
Position
Research Fields
Satoshi IWASAKI
Senior Engineer

Team Leader, Process Engineering Team

Operation and support of public equipments
Nobuo SAKUMA

Special Research Fellow
Process Engineering Team

Operation and support of public equipments (melting/ thermo-mechanical treatment/ forging/ rolling)

Koji NAKAZATO

STX visiting researcher

Process Engineering Team

Operation and support of public equipments (melting/ thermo-mechanical treatment/ forging/ rolling)
Shuji KURODA

Special Technical Staff
Process Engineering Team

Operation and support of public Equipments and Facilities (Forging/ Rolling)
Takaaki HIBARU

Special Technical Staff
Process Engineering Team

Operation and support of public equipments and facilities (Melting)
Masaki FUJIWARA

Special Technical Staff
Process Engineering Team

Operation and support of public equipments and facilities

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