Yuichiro Koizumi is a professor at the Division of Materials and Manufacturing Science at Osaka University. He has been working there since January 2018. His current project is 'Microstructure control of metals by additive manufacturing'. He has expertise in alloys and microstructure. He received his Ph.D. from Osaka University in the field of fatigue of Ti-Al alloy in September 1999. He is an assistant professor in the department of Adaptive Machine Systems at Osaka University. He was a visiting scientist at MIT in the 2007 Japanese academic year. He was affiliated with the Institute for Materials Research of Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, as an associate professor from April 2010 to December 2017.