Speakers
NIMS Award Session
Invited Talk NA-1
Prof. Suresh Babu
(University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA)
Dr. Babu obtained his bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India, and his master’s degree in industrial welding metallurgy-materials joining from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He obtained his PhD in materials science and metallurgy from University of Cambridge, UK in 1992. He also worked as a research associate in the Institute for Materials Research, Sendai, Japan before joining ORNL in 1993. From 1993 to 1997, he held joint researcher position with ORNL, University of Tennessee and The Penn State University. From 1997 to 2005, he worked as an R&D staff at ORNL. From 2005 to 2007, Suresh held a senior level technology leader position in the area of engineering and materials at Edison Welding Institute, Columbus, Ohio. From 2007 to 2013, Suresh served as Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University. In 2013, Suresh was appointed as UT/ORNL Governor’s chair of advanced manufacturing at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. In 2020, Suresh was appointed to the National Science Board by the President of the United States of America for a six-year term.
Invited Talk NA-2
Prof. Simon Ringer
(The University of Sydney, Australia)
Prof. Simon P. Ringer is a metallurgist specialising in the relationships between the microstructure of materials and their engineering properties and performance. His research focuses on understanding materials from the atomic-scale to gain insights that can shape the design of the materials themselves, and the processes by which they are made. His work spans the development of structural alloys, semiconductors and functional materials. He is an expert in microscopy and computational materials simulations, and several examples of his fundamental research have been translated to industrial practice. He has held appointments in Australia, Sweden, Japan and the USA, led the establishment of a number of major research institutes and facilities, and has a global academic and industrial network. He was elected as Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering in 2020. He is professor of materials engineering at the University of Sydney and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for research infrastructure, where he is responsible the strategy, policy and operations of research infrastructure, research technology services, and research space management.
Invited Talk NA-4
Prof. Sung-Joon Kim
(POSTECH, Korea)
Prof. Sung-Joon Kim is currently Dean of Graduate Institute of Ferrous and Energy Materials Technology (GIFT), POSTECH, Korea. He graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and received Ph.D in 1990. Before joining POSTCEH in 2011, he had been working in the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) in Changwon, Korea for more than 20 years as a principal researcher leading research and development of various kinds of steels, and later served as the vice president of the KIMS. for 3 years. He also served as the president of Korean Institute of Metals and Materials in 2019, and currently he is a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea. He is the author of more than 280 peer-reviewed publications. His major interest areas are alloy design of stainless steels, LME and hydrogen embrittlement, etc.
Invited Talk NA-5
Prof. Tadashi Furuhara
(Microstrucure Design of Structural Metalic Materials Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku
Univeristy)
Tadashi Furuhara is a Professor and the Director of the Institute for Materials, Tohoku University.
He obtained his Bachelor and Master of Engineering degrees from Kyoto University, Japan. After he
graduated with his Ph.D degree from Carnegie Mellon University, USA, he joined the faculty of
engineering, Kyoto University in 1989 and made research and education as an assistant and associate
professor. Then he became a professor at Tohoku University in 2005. His research activity covers a
broad area in physical metallurgy of steels and non-ferrous alloys, such as phase transformations
and precipitation, deformation and recrystallization, microstructure control by thermo-mechanical
and thermo-chemical processings.
He also actively contributes to various academic societies in metallurgy field. He served as a Vice
President of JIM between 2016-19 and is currently the President of ISIJ. He is also an editor of
Acta and Scripta Materialia.
NIMS Talk NA-3
Dr. Makoto Watanabe
(Field Director, Materials Manufacturing Field, Research Center for Structural Materials)
Dr. Makoto Watanabe is the Director of the Materials Manufacturing Field, Research Center for Structural Materials, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan. He is also Group Leader of the Additive Manufacturing Group in the same field. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Materials Engineering at the University of Tokyo in 2000. He worked at Princeton University (Postdoctoral Researcher (2000-2002)) and at the University of California Santa Barbara (Research Associate (2002-2004)), and then joined the Thermal Spray Coatings Group at NIMS in 2004. He also stayed at Stanford University as a visiting researcher (2011-2013), and worked at the University of Tokyo as an associate professor under the cross-appointment system (2017-2020). Recently, he has mainly studied about additive manufacturing (AM) of high temperature alloys by combining experimental and computational approaches to develop new alloys suitable for AM.
NIMS Talk NA-6
Dr. Hideki Katayama
(Field Director, Materials Evaluation Field,
Research Center for Structural Materials)
Dr. Hideki Katayama is the Director of the Materials Evaluation Field, Research Center for Structural Materials, National Institute for Materials Science. He also concurrently serves as Group Leader of the Corrosion Research Group in the same field. He holds a Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is also a visiting professor in the Department of Advanced Chemistry at Tokyo University of Science and a part-time lecturer in the Faculty of Bioscience and Applied Chemistry at Hosei University. He specializes in corrosion science and electrochemistry.
Session 1: Deformation and Fracture
Invited Talk S1-1
Prof. Nobuhiro Tsuji
(Proffesor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyoto University)
Prof. Nobuhiro Tsuji received his PhD degree from Department of Materials Science and Technology, Kyoto University, Japan, in 1994. He worked as an assistant professor and then an associate professor in Osaka University, Japan, from 1994 to 2009. He has been a full professor for physical metallurgy of structural metallic materials at Department of Materials Science and Engineering in Kyoto University since March 2009. His research interests have been (i) correlation between nano/micro-structures and mechanical properties of structural materials; (ii) fundamental mechanisms of deformation, recrystallization, and phase transformation during thermomechanical processing of metals; and (iii) fabrication and properties of nanostructured metals. Particularly his works on bulk nanostructured metals (ultrafine grained metallic materials) are well recognized. Total citations for his 482 papers published in scientific journals are about 24,000 times and the h-index is 75 (according to Scopus).
Invited Talk S1-2
Prof. Manabu Enoki
(Professor, Department of Material Engineering The University of Tokyo)
Manabu Enoki is Professor of the Department of Materials Engineering at The University of Tokyo. He received a Bachelor of Engineering degree at the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo in 1984, and graduated with a Doctor of Engineering in 1989. He started his career as a Research Associate at Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo. He moved to the Department of Materials Engineering in 2000. His research interest concerns the analysis of microfracture in various materials using non-destructive evaluation method, especially acoustic emission technique. He has continued the research on the integrity of structural materials, such as steels, Mg alloys, Ti alloys etc. using various experimental techniques and numerical simulations using physical based model and data-driven approach.
Invited Talk S1-3
Prof. Masaki Tanaka
(Professor ,Metals Science for Structural Materials, Department of Materials Science and
Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University)
Prof. Masaki Tanaka completed PhD at Kyushu University in 2005. He was appointed as a professor to the Department of Materials, the Faculty of Engineering at Kyushu University after working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Materials, University of Oxford in UK, Post-doctoral researcher, Assistant Professor, and Associate Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyushu University. His current research interest is mechanical properties (mainly deformation and fracture) of crystalline materials such as steels, silicon, titanium alloys and so on, based on dislocation theory.
Invited Talk S1-4
Associate Prof. Motomichi Koyama
(Associate Professor, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University)
Associate Prof. Motomichi Koyama obtained a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering (2012) at University of Tsukuba, Japan. In 2012, he received a postdoctoral fellowship (JSPS Research fellowship for young scientist PD). During his postdoc, he spent about 1 year and 3 months in the Max-Planck Institute for Iron Research in Düsseldorf, Germany and was visiting scientist in that institute (2012-2013) in the group of Prof. D. Raabe. In 2013, he became full time assistant professor at Kyushu University, Japan. In 2020, he moved to Tohoku University as associate professor. He joined Institute for Materials Research and attempted to establish alloy deign of hydrogen-resistant steels. In addition, he has developed crack-specific microstructure characterization methodologies towards mechanics-metallurgy-based understanding of hydrogen-assisted damage evolution
NIMS Talk S1-5
Dr. Akinobu Shibata
(Distinguished Group Leader, Steel Research Group, Research Center for Structural Materials)
Dr. Akinobu Shibata is Distinguished Group Leader in Research Center for Structural Materials, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan and Professor in Subprogram in Materials Science, Graduate School of Science and Technology, University of Tsukuba, Japan. He received his Ph.D from Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Kyoto University in 2007. He worked at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Assistant Professor (2007-2010)), Kyoto University (Assistant Professor (2010-2014) and Associate Professor (2014-2020), and then joined Research Center for Structural Materials at National Institute for Materials Science since 2020. He also stayed at Mines ParisTech (France) as visiting researcher (2017-2018). His main research topics are microstructure evolution through phase transformation, correlation between fracture behavior and microstructure, etc., in metallic materials, and he currently focuses the study on hydrogen-related fracture of high strength steels.
Session 2: High-temperature Materials
Invited Talk S2-1
Prof. Eiichi Sato
(Professor, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science,Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency(JAXA))
After graduating the University of Tokyo in 1985, Eiichi SATO has been working for ISAS/JAXA, specializing high temperature deformation and superplasticity, in addition to structural materials and reliability for space engineering. He is now serving Program Director of ISAS space science projects.
Invited Talk S2-2
Prof. Yuichiro Koizumi
(Professor, Division of Materials Science and Engineering, Osaka Univ.)
Prof. Yuichiro Koizumi earned his Ph.D. in 1999 from the Department of Materials Science at Osaka University. He subsequently joined the Department of Adaptive Machine Systems at Osaka University as an Assistant Professor. Later, he spent a year as a visiting scientist in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 2010, he became an Associate Professor at the Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. By 2018, he was appointed as a professor in the Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science, Graduate School of Engineering at Osaka University, where he oversees research in Materials Design and Processing. To date, he has published approximately 200 papers.
Invited Talk S2-3
Associate Prof. Yuhki Tsukada
(Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering Materials Design
Innovation Engineering 1, Nagoya University)
Yuhki Tsukada is an associate professor at Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan. He received Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Engineering from Nagoya University, Japan in 2007, 2009 and 2011, respectively. He joined Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan as an assistant professor in 2011. He moved to Nagoya University, Japan as an assistant professor in 2015, and was promoted to an associate professor in 2016. His main research area is the phase-field modeling of microstructure evolution during solid-state phase transformations. He is also interested in data assimilation methods that combine experimental data with a microstructure simulation model. He is serving as a subject editor of Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, and an associate editor of Science and Technology of Advanced Materials: Methods.
NIMS Talk S2-4
Dr. Toshio Osada
(Principal Researcher, High Temperature Materials Group,
Materials Manufacturing Field, Research Center for Structural Materials)
Dr. Toshio Osada is a principal researcher at High Temperature Materials Group in National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan. He received his Ph.D. from Yokohama National University, Japan, in 2009. From 2009 to 2012, he was a postdoctoral researcher at High Temperature Materials Center in NIMS. From 2012-2013, he worked as specially appointed assistant professor in Yokohama National University. From 2013-present, he worked in NIMS. From 2016-2018, he also worked as a guest researcher at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Further, from 2022-present, he also worked as Professor at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, and Ocean Engineering, Yokohama National University. His research interests include superalloys, self-healing ceramics, strength prediction, and gas turbine materials.
NIMS Talk S2-5
Dr. Taisuke Sasaki
(Group Leader, Nanostructure Analysis Group, Research Center for
Magnetic and Spintronic Materials)
Dr. Taisuke Sasaki is a group leader of the Nanostructure Analysis Group in the Research Center for Magnetic and Spintronic Materials at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan. He received his Ph.D. degree in engineering from the University of Tsukuba, Japan, in 2008. His research interests include understanding the structure-property relationship in various metallic materials using scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmission electron microscope (TEM), and three-dimensional atom probe (3DAP). Taisuke Sasaki can be reached by e-mail at Sasaki.Taisuke@nims.go.jp