Akira FUJIWARA | Senior Distinguished Researcher, NTT Basic Research Laboratories
Akira Fujiwara is a senior distinguished scientist at NTT Basic Research Laboratories (BRL). He received his B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in applied physics from The University of Tokyo, Japan in 1989, 1991, and 1994, respectively. He joined NTT LSI Laboratories in 1994 and moved to NTT BRL in 1996. He has been engaged in research on silicon nanostructures and their application to single-electron devices. He was a guest researcher at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA in 2003-2004. He was a group leader of nanodevcies research group and a senior manager of physical science laboratory at NTT BRL for 2006-2020 and 2012-2020, respectively. He was awarded Prizes for Science and Technology in 2017 from the Minister of MEXT, Japan. He was supported by the funding program for Next Generation World-Leading Researchers (NEXT), JSPS in 2011-2014 and serve as a PI of JSPS KAKENHI S (Quantum Standards and Ultimate Precision Measurements Based on Single Electrons) in 2018-2022. He is a member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics, a member of Science Council of Japan, and a Fellow of the IEEE.
Hiroshi MIZUTA | Distinguished Professor and Vice President (Special Missions)
Hiroshi Mizuta CPhys FInstP FJSAP, received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Osaka Univ. He was the Laboratory Manager at the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, UK, Associate Prof. at Tokyo Inst. of Technology and Prof. of Nanoelectronics at Southampton Univ. He is currently Distinguished Professor and Vice President at Japan Advanced Inst. of Science and Technology (JAIST). He has a strong track record on Si and graphene nanoelectronics and NEMS has led large projects including UK EPSRC project SISSQIT on electron spins in Si quantum dots, UK-Japan project NOVTLOS on Si-based NEMS nonvolatile switch, and Japan MEXT project, ‘Graphene NEMS hybrid functional devices for autonomous and ultrasensitive integrated sensors’.
He published over 610 peer-reviewed papers, 18 books & chapters and filed 55 patents. He is Fellow of the Japan Society of Applied Physics, Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP) and member of the Physical Society of Japan and the IEEE Electron Device Society. He was awarded for 2018 Commendation for MEXT, Japan on ‘Hybrid Electro-Mechanical Functional Devices at Nanoscale’. He served as a member of the International Advisory Board of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, New Zealand.
José MORAN-MIRABAL | Professor and University Scholar in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Dr. Jose Moran-Mirabal is Professor and University Scholar in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at McMaster University, and the Founding Director of McMaster’s Centre for Advanced Light Microscopy. Jose’s research designs and studies materials at the micrometer to nanometer scale by combining strengths in micro- and nanofabrication, 3D bioprinting, interfacial chemistry of biomaterials, and high-resolution fluorescence microscopy. His work has been recognized by the Province of Ontario with an Early Researcher Award and the Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Micro- and Nanostructured Materials. Jose is the Vice President of the Microscopy Society of Canada and editor in the journals of Frontiers Bioengineering and Biotechnology and Industrial Biotechnology. He has trained >100 HQP, has authored 101 peer-reviewed publications, and has four granted patents.