March 1969 | Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Ph.D., Engineering |
April 1988 | Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo |
April 1995 | Director General, the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), the University of Tokyo |
April 1997 | Director General, the National Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) |
April 2001 | President, the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) |
July 2003 - September 2005 | Vice President, the Science Council of Japan |
July 2009 | Advisor, the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) |
October 2013 | President, Innovative Structural Materials Association (ISMA) |
September 2015 - March 2020 | Science and Technology Advisor to the Minister for Foreign Affairs |
March 2019 | Fellow, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo |
August 2019 | President Emeritus, the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) |
Materials science (especially fracture mechanics and nondestructive testing of metal, ceramics and composite materials.)
President of the Japan Federation of Engineering Societies (2007), Officier de l'Ordre National du Merite, France (2004), Honda Memorial Award, Honda Foundation (2006), Barkhausen Award, Dresden, Germany (2007), Carl-von-Bach-Medal Award, Germany (2009), etc.