Biography

Hiroshi Asanuma received doctorate in engineering from The University of Tokyo. After being a research associate at Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo and an associate professor at Chiba University, he became a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chiba University. He served as a chair of M&P Division of JSME. He started active material systems technical section of the division. He has been organizing sessions on smart materials and structural systems for MECJ (Mechanical Engineering Congress, Japan) as a chief organizer jointly with M&P (Materials & Processing), M&M (Materials & Mechanics), DMC (Dynamics, Measurement and Control) and Space Engineering Divisions of JSME. He also served as SPIE conference chair, co-chair, etc. and chairs/organizers of many other symposia and workshops on smart materials and structures. Recently, he proposed disaster mitigation and sustainable engineering and started systems for disaster mitigation and sustainability technical section of the division. He has been organizing related sessions, forums and workshops. He has published over 70 journal papers, 90 conference papers, several books and patents, and has been in collaboration with over 30 universities/institutes/companies around the world. He has delivered keynote and invited presentations about 50 times. He is a JSME Fellow and an IOP Fellow

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Research Interest

Smart materials