Prof. Dr. Hideyuki Kanematsu

Dr. Hideyuki Kanematsu, FASM (a Fellow of ASM International), FIMF (a Fellow of IMF) is a specially appointed professor in the Joint Research Promotion Center at the National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Suzuka College (NIT (KOSEN), Suzuka College), Japan, an Affiliated Professor of Nagoya University, and also the Unit Leader (Director) of the KOSEN GEAR Project (KOSEN Research Center of Materials Science) 5.0. In addition to having had many administration positions in the college (Dean of Dept. MS & E, 2010-2014, Deputy President, 2014-2018, etc.), he is also a researcher in Materials Surface Science and Engineering and the research advisor of the college. He holds a BEng (1981), an MEng (1983), and a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering (1989), all from Nagoya University. He is a member of NASF, TMS, ASM International ECS, ACS (USA), JIM, ISIJ, SFSJ, ECSJ, MRS-J, JSHT, JTSS (Japan), etc. For all of these, he is very active as a member and also as a board member. He has received numerous prestigious awards. Among them, it is especially noteworthy that he received the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award in 2021 for his outstanding achievements in education and research for many years, and he was elected as a Fellow of ASM International, a leading materials science society mainly in the United States, at the end of March 2022. These awards are great honors for him.