Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan;
Masahiro YOSHIMURA was graduated for B.S. at 1965, M.S. at 1967 and D. Sc. in Engineering at 1970 from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Then 1970, Research Assoc.,1978 Assoc. Prof. ,1985 Full Prof. in Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology. During those periods, 1973-1975 Post Doc. in 3 CNRS Labs.(Odeillo, Orleans and Paris) in France, and 1975-1977 in Mass. Inst. Tech., USA. His researches started High-Temp. Mater. like Zirconia, Rare Earth Oxides, then moved Solution Processes including Hydrothermal/Solvothermal areas. After retired at 2008, Professor Emeritus, Visiting/Guest Profs. In Tohoku Univ., Japan, Univ. Limerick, Ireland, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Inst. Metal. Res., CAS, China, . then National Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan since Feb. 2010 as a Visiting Distinguished Chair Prof.,as the Director of PCGMR,Hi-Gem member and NCKU90 and Beyond project. He received ,Academic Award (1993) from The Ceramic Soc. Japan, 10th Fulrath Pacific Award(1987) Fellow(1995),Distinguished Life Award(2017) from The Amer. Ceram. Soc., and Honorary Fellow(2017) from European Ceramic Soc., He has been nominated from Thomson-Reuter as ISI Highly-Cited Researcher(2001).Now he has >730 peer-reviewed Papers, 84 Reviews,7 Books (49 Book Chapters) & 30 Patents, and >25,000 International. Citations with h-index >77 by Scopus, >38,000 with >92 by Google, #1 in Solution Processing, #5 in Ceramics in the World Ranking. He has organized 25 Internl Confs.: IUMRS-ICA,Chiba,1997, IUMRS-ICAM,Yokohama,2003, and , 6th ISHA,2016, Tainan,Taiwan. etc. >50 Plenary/Keynote & >250 invited Lectures in Intnl Meetings. He is Founding President(2006-2008) of ISHA, President of the Advisory Board (2010-2014) in The World Academy of Ceramics (WAC), A Advisory Officer of IUMRS(Audit Elect 2007,Former President of MRS-Japan). Advisory Board CIMTEC,2022,Italy, Editor-in-Chief of Handbook of Advanced Ceramics, Elsevier.2023. He has committed to about 60 Ph. D Grdutes.