Birth Date & Place, and Nationality:
1943. 02. 16, Yamaguchi City, Japanese

Education:
1949.4-1955.3 Yamagata Fifth Elementary School.
1955.4-1958.3 Yamagata sixth Junior High School.
1958.4-1961.3 Yamagata East High School, with Honor.
1961.4-1965.3 Dept. of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tohoku Univ, B.Sc. with Honor.
1965.4-1967.3 Master of Science (M.Sc.) on magnetism, Dept of Physics, Tohoku Univ.

Titles:
Doctor of Science (D. Sc.), Tohoku University, 28th April. 1982.

Occupation:
1967.04-1994.06 Assistant Prof, Dept of Physics, Faculty of Science, Tohoku Univ.
1989.04- Head of the Microstructure Phys , Dept. of Phys, Tohoku Univ.
1994.06-2002.03 Associate Prof, Tohoku Univ.
1995.04-2001.03 Research Director, CREST, JST, Japan
2002.03-2003.03 Prof, Dept. Physics, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University.
2003.04-2010.02 Prof, Head of Structural Chemistry, Arrhenius Lab., Stockholm Univ.
2010.03-2016.12 Part-time Prof (Dept Materials/Environmental Chem), Stockholm Univ. 2017.01- Emeritus Prof, Stockholm Univ.
2009.09-2013.08 Invited Guest Prof. World-Class Univ (WCU), KAIST, Korea
2013.09-2019.02 Invited Guest Prof. Brain-Korea 21st Century(BK21)+, KAIST, Korea
2014.01-2017.12 Visiting Professor, Dept of Chem., Univ of California, Berkeley, USA
2015.05-2017.04 Distinguished Adjunct Professor (DAP), School of Physical Science &
Technology (SPST), ShanghaiTech Univ, China.
2017.05-2022.04 Director, Prof. Centre for High-resolution Electron Microscopy (CℏEM), SPST, ShanghaiTech Univ.
2022.05- DAP, CℏEM, SPST, ShanghaiTech Univ.

Research Unit Physics of Plasticity, Dept Phys, Tohoku Univ (From 1966 to 1989)
1. Prof Denjiro Watanabe, 1966 – 1989 (Retired)
2. Assoc. Prof 1968-1989, Then, he moved to a Research Institute, Tohoku Univ
3. Assist. Prof 1967-1989, Then, he moved to another Univ.
4. Assist. Prof Osamu Terasaki 1967-1989, Then Head of Microstructure Phys. Promoted to Assoc and Full Prof , 1994 & 2002. Selected as CREST Research Director 1995.

Guest Researcher / Professor:
1982.09 -1984.03 Guest Research Fellow of the Royal Society (UK). Univ of Cambridge.
1988.03 -09 Guest Prof of NFR, Inorganic Chemistry II, Univ of Lund, Sweden.
1998.09- 11 Invited Research Fellow, Central Research Centre, ExxonMobil,
Annandale, USA
1996 - 2008- Guest Prof - Honorary Prof, Jilin Univ, P.R. China.
2005 - Guest Prof, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, P.R. China.
2008.04- 2009.03 Guest Prof, Waseda Univ, Japan.
2009- 2019 Adjunct Prof, World Premium Institute (WPI), Tohoku Univ, Japan
2019- 2021 Adjunct Prof, Adv Inst for Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku Univ

Scientific Awards:
1964: Y.S. Kuno Prize, Honor Prize of Tohoku University.
1982: First Place, International Metallographic Exhibit in the Electron Microscopy.
1993: Seto Award, Award of Japanese Society of Electron Microscopy.
1996: Daiwa Adrian Prize, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London.
2001: The Best Paper Award, Japanese Society of Electron Microscopy.
2007: The Donald W Breck Award, International Zeolite Association
2008: Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2010: Honorary Member of Scandinavian Electron Microscopy Society
2014: Honorary Member of Japan Association of Zeolite
2018: Foreign Expert Recruitment, State Administration of FEs Affairs, P.R. China.
2019:　 The Donald W Breck Award, International Zeolite Association
2020:　　Foreign Member of Academia Europaea
2024: IMMA Lifetime Achievement Award

State Award:
2003: Friendship Award, State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, P.R. China.

Experiences with Foreign groups / scientists

1967 Prof Sten Andersson sent me a set of original data with notes for my question letter on his Ti5O9 paper.

1968 Prof Bruce Hyde came to Tohoku Univ from West Australian Univ , worked together and published an EM paper on “Slightly reduced TiO2”.

1969 I was invited to International Conf on “The chemistry of extended defects in non-metallic solids " organised by Prof LeRoy Eyring and Michael O’Keeffe at Arizona State with a round-trip air ticket. There, I met leading scholars in the field, including Profs John Cowley, Sten Andersson and Mike O'Keeffe.

1980 Prof Ryoji Uyeda (Nagoya Univ) sent me to “Australian EM Society Meeting” and suggested to present my research on “EM study of Au-based incommensurate alloys” by sending a Check to cover all the cost. I had collaborated with Prof Uyeda through his PhD student on critical-voltage-effect. I stayed at John Sanders' home (Melbourne) for a month. He was the world expert on zeolites, and I got acquainted with Alex Moody, a world-famous theoretician on electron scattering.

1981 Prof Watanabe gave a Plenary Lecture at IUCr Conf at Canada on my research “EM study of Au-based incommensurate alloys”. I presented a Poster in more details. Dr David Jefferson, Phys Chem, Cambridge Univ, presented his poster next to me, and we showed big interests each other.

1981 I received an invitation letter from Prof John Thomas for a postdoc in his group. I replied I would be happy and come after obtaining DSc in a few months and sent a list of my publications. Then, Prof Thomas resent me another invitation letter to work with him under the scheme of the Guest Research Fellow of the Royal Society with enough financial support for me to travel and stay with my whole family (wife and three school children) at Cambridge.

1982 Obtain Doctor of Science (April 28th), Start working with John Thomas at Cambridge Univ (the same Inst as J W Menter & J V Sanders worked) from Sept 1982 and Member of The High Table, King’s-College, worked on EM study on zeolite fine structures for 18 months (until 1984 April).

1987 External Examiner for PhD Defence, Turk Univ., Finland,

1987 Faculty Opponent for PhD Defence, Lund Univ., Sweden

1990 External Examiner for PhD Defence, Lund Univ., Sweden

1994 Faculty Opponent for PhD Defence, Lund Univ., Sweden

1995-2001 Selected as one of the 1st PIs, CREST Project orginised by JST on “New Arrayed Clusters in Microporous Materials: Syntheses, Structures and Physical Properties”, through heavy competition.

2001.02 Apply for international recruitment, Prof., Head of Structural Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University.

2002.02 Interview at Stockholm Univ, I was selected unanimously out of five last interviewees (from total 20 applicants) by the International Committee followed with all decisions at different levels in the Univ.
However, one of the candidates challenged the all decisions within the Stockholm Univ successively. Finally, The Higher Education Committee, Authority under Ministry of Education, rejected the appeal. It took almost one year to reach the final decision. All processes including name of applicants, evaluations and decisions of various levels are public information.

2003.04 - 2010.03 - 2016.12 - Head of Structural Chem - Part time Prof (4 months/year) - Emeritus, Stockholm.

2008.01 - 2012.12 Humboldt Guest Research Fellow, Max Planck Inst Mulheim, Worked with Prof Ferdi Schüth,

2008.12 - 2014.03 - 2019.02 Invited Guest Prof., WCU program - Brain Korea 21+, KAIST, Korea

2014.01 - 2017.12 Visiting Guest Prof, Dept Chem (Host: Prof Omar Yaghi), UC Berkeley, USA

2015.05 - 2018.05 - 2022.05 - Distinguished Adjunct Prof (DAP) - Prof., The Director, Centre for High-resolution Electron Microscopy - DAP