Professor Yoshio Bando

Biography

Prof. Yoshio Bando has been leading the communities of nanomaterials and electron microscopy for many years. Holding a PhD degree from Osaka University, he joined the National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials (NIRIM) as a researcher in 1975. He was a visiting scientist at the Arizona State University, USA (1979-1981), and in 1992, he became an adjunct professor at the University of Tsukuba until 2003. He was promoted to be a supervising researcher of Advanced Beam Analysis Station of NIRIM in 1996. In 2001, NIRIM was merged with the National Research Institute for Metals to form the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), and he was appointed as Director of the Advanced Beam Analysis Group, followed by being appointed Director-General of International Center for Young Scientist (ICYS), NIMS. He became a NIMS Fellow in 2004 and Deputy-Director General of International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), one of the nine research centers sponsored by Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) for the World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI) in 2007. From 2008 to March 2017, he was responsible for the operation of MANA with the appointed position of Chief Operating Officer (COO). In addition, he was adjunct professor of University of Tokyo (2009-2012) and guest professor of Waseda University (2008-2016). Since 2017, he is an Executive Advisor of WPI-MANA in NIMS, and a Distinguished Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

Prof. Yoshio Bando has received many prestigious awards and fellowships, including the "Sacred Treasure" from the Emperor in 2017, the 3rd Thomson Reuters Research Front Award in 2012, the Tsukuba Prize in 2005, Academician, World Academy of Ceramics in 2004, Commendation Award by the Minister of State for Science and Technology in 1998, Academic Award of the Ceramic Society of Japan in 1997, Seto Award of Electron Microscopy Society of Japan in 1994, and Science and Technology Accomplishment Award by the Minister of State for Science and Technology in 1994. In 2002, he was chosen as one of the "Top Thirty Key Persons in Nanotechnology" in Japan by the scientific journal, "Nikkei Science". He was appointed as adjunct member of the Science Council of Japan in 2006. He is also a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He served as Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Electron Microscopy from 2008-2012, and was an Editorial Board Member of "Small", "Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology", and others. He is now an editorial board in "Nanotechnology", "Nano Energy", "Materials Horizon", "Journal of Ceramic Science Technology" and others.

Professor Yoshio Bando has been selected as ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science in 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. To date, he has authored 744 original research papers that have been cited more than 40,284 times with h-index of 105 (Web of Science in March 2018). He has been registered 43 foreign patents and 159 Japanese patents.

Academic Degrees

Osaka University	Inorganic Chemistry	Ph.D 1975
Kyoto Institute of Technology	Materials Science	M.S. 1972, B.S 1970

Professional Experience

2017-present	Executive Advisor, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan Distinguished Professor, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials (AIIM), University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia
2010-present	Visiting Professor, University of Toyo
2007-2017	Chief Operating Officer, MANA, NIMS
2004-2017	Fellow, NIMS
2008-2016	Guest Professor, Dept. of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering, Waseda University
2009-2012	Professor, Dept. of Applied Chemistry, University of Tokyo
2003-2008	Director-General, International Center for Young Scientists (ICYS), NIMS
2001-2005	Group Leader, Advanced Beam Analysis Group, NIMS
2001-2003	Director, Integrated Strategic Office, NIMS
1996-2001	Supervising Researcher, Advanced Beam Analysis Station, NIRIM
1992-2003	Adjunct Professor, Joint Graduate School of Material Science, Tsukuba University
1981-1996	Senior Researcher, National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials (NIRIM)
1979-1981	Visiting Researcher, Dept. of Physics, Arizona State University
1975-1981	Researcher, National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials (NIRIM)