Prof. Dr. Seiji Kojima

Seiji Kojima received B.S. and Sc.D. degrees in the Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1974 and 1979, respectively. He joined the Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, as a JSPS PD Fellow in 1979. In 1980, he joined the Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tsukuba, as a Research Associate. From 2002, he was a full professor in the Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba. From 2011 to 2015, he was the Chair of the Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba. Since 2017, he has been a professor emeritus, University of Tsukuba. His major fields of study are materials science and advanced broadband spectroscopy. He was the Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the 8th Russia/CIS/Baltic/Japan Symposium on Ferroelectricity (RCBJSF) in 2006, the Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Tsukuba International Conference on Materials Science (TICMS) in 2013, and the Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the 35th Ultrasonic Electronics Symposium (USE) in 2014. He was the delegate of the 10th field in the Physical Society of Japan from 2007 to 2008. He received the JJAP Editorial Contribution Award from the Japan Society of Applied Physics in 2008. He has been an editorial board member of the journal “Ferroelectrics” since 2006 and the journal “Materials” since 2021.