Dr. KOIZUMI Hideaki
Fellow, Hitachi, Ltd.
Director, Brain-Science & Society Division, RISTEX-JST
Auditor, National Institute of Environmental Studies
Advanced Research Laboratory
Hitachi, Ltd.
2520 Akanuma,
Hatoyama-machi, Hiki-gun, Saitama 350-0395,
JAPAN
Tel: +81-(0)49-296-6111
Fax: +81-(0)49-296-6005
E-mail: hideaki.koizumi (please add ".kd@hitachi.com" to complete the address)
Date & Place of Birth: October 1946 (Tokyo, Japan)
Employment:
| 2006.04 - present | Visiting Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo |
| 2004.04 - present | Fellow, Hitachi, Ltd. |
| 2003.10 - 2004.04 | Senior Chief Scientist - Corporate Technology, Hitachi, Ltd. |
| 2003.04 - 2003.10 | Senior Chief Scientist, Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd. |
| 2001.04 - 2003.04 | Senior Chief Scientist, Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd. |
| 1999.08 - 2001.04 | General Manager, Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd. |
| 2002.10 - 2003.03 | Visiting Lecturer, Ochanomizu University |
| 1998.04 - 2003.03 | Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, University of Tokyo |
| 1996.10 - 1997.03 | Visiting Lecturer, School of Engineering Science, Osaka University |
| 1996.03 - 1997.03 | Visiting Lecturer, School of Medicine, Hokkaido University |
| 1995.08 - 1998.03 | Visiting Researcher, Center of Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance, University of Tsukuba |
| 1995.04 - 1997.03 | Visiting Professor, Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University |
| 1995.04 - 1996.03 | Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University |
| 1995.04 - present | Visiting Researcher, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience |
| 1992.08 - 1999.08 | Chief Scientist, Medical Electronics Research Department, Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd. |
| 1983.02 - 1992.08 | Senior Engineer, Dept. of Optical Instruments, Naka Works, Hitachi, Ltd. |
| 1979.09 - 1983.02 | Engineer, Dept. of Optical Instruments, Naka Works, Hitachi, Ltd. |
| 1977.09 - 1978.10 | Guest Research Physicist (faculty), Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL), University of California |
| 1977.04 - 1977.05 | Visiting Researcher, Waterways Experiment Station, Engineer Research and Development Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
| 1976.09 - 1977.03 | Visiting Scientist (Guest Worker), National Bureau of Standards (NBS), US Department of Commerce |
| 1973.09 - | Transferred to Hitachi, Ltd. (Naka Works) |
| 1971.07 - 1973.09 | Joined Nissei Sangyo Co., Ltd. (current, Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation) |
Current Government-related Positions:
| 2005.04 - present | Auditor, National Institute of Environmental Studies |
| 2004.04 - present | Director, Brain-Science & Society Division, RISTEX-JST |
| 2004.04 - present | Director, Japan Children's Study (JCS), RISTEX-JST |
| 2004.04 - present | Supervisor, Brain-Science & Education Program (I) & (II), RISTEX-JST |
| 2004.04 - present | Member, Curriculum Committee, Subdivision on Elementary and Lower Secondary Education, Central Council for Education, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT) |
| 2003.04 - present | Adviser, "Elucidation of a Learning Mechanism Based on the Knowledge of the Development of Brain Functions," Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) |
| 2002.05 - present | Committee Member, Super Science High School Program, MEXT |
| 2002.04 - present | Committee Member, Council for Brain-Science & Education Research Initiatives, and Executive Director, Working Group of the Council for Brain-Science & Education Research Initiatives, MEXT |
| 2002.01 - present | Member, International Advisory Committee on OECD-CERI project on Learning Science and Brain Research (CERI: OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation) |
| 2001.09 - present | Member, Science and Technology for Society Forum, Japan Science & Technology Corporation, MEXT (present, Japan Science and Technology Agency) |
| 2001.04 - present | Member, Specialist Committee, Japan Atomic Energy Commission |
Current Professional Affiliations & Activities:
| 2005.04 - present | Director, The Global Association for the Welfare of Children |
| 2005.04 - present | 2006 President-Elect, The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry (JSAC) |
| 2005.04 - present | Board Director, The Japan Neuroscience Society |
| 2004.10 - present | Founding Member, Board of Directors, International Mind, Brain and Education Society (IMBES) |
| 2004.04 - present | Board Director, Working Group on Learning Therapy, Kumon Institute of Education Co., Ltd. |
| 2004.04 - present | Director, The Institute of Seizon and Life Sciences |
| 2004.04 - present | Member, Committee on Science & Technology for the Future Society, Institute of Policy Sciences |
| 2004.04 - present | Chairman, Preschool Education Program for Children, Sony Foundation for Education |
| 2003.08 - present | Member, Governing Committee, Aprica Kassai, Inc. |
| 2003.05 - present | Member, Board of Directors, Sony Foundation for Education |
| 2003.04 - present | Member, Selection Committee of The Yamazaki-Teiichi Foundation for Promotion of Material Science and Technology of Japan |
| 2002.11 - present | Member, Brain Century Promotion Conference |
| 2002.04 - present | Member, Awards Committee, Nakayama Science Promotion Foundation |
| 2002.04 - present | Member, Board of Trustees, The Takemi Memorial Foundation for Seizon and Life Sciences |
| 2001.04 - present | Founding Vice President, The Japanese Society of Baby Science |
Education:
| 1976.10 | D.Sc. | University of Tokyo, Faculty of Science (Discovery of the principle of polarized Zeeman atomic absorption (PZAA)) |
| 1971.06 | B.Sc. | University of Tokyo, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Pure and Applied Sciences |
Awards & Recognitions:
| 2004.06 | National Commendation for Invention: Patent Promotion for the 21st Century Prize (Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation (JIII)) |
| 2004.04 | Nikkei BP Technology Awards - Grand Prize: Development of Optical Topography and its practical applications for the measurement of brain functions (Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.) |
| 2004.03 | 50th Okochi Memorial Grand Technology Prize: Development of optical topography and its practical applications (Okochi Memorial Foundation) |
| 2002.10 | Local Commendation for Invention of Kanto: The Invention Encouragement Prize of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Sonic spray ionization mass spectrometry (JIII) |
| 2002.10 | R&D 100 Award: The Optical Topography® System, ETG-100 (R&D Magazine) |
| 2000.05 | JSMBE Awards - Kagaku Shinbun Prize (New Technology Development):Optical Topography® method and applications (Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering (JSMBE)) |
| 2000.03 | 46th Okochi Memorial Technology Prize: Development of the sonic spray ionization mass spectrometry and its practical applications (Okochi Memorial Foundation) |
| 1999.04 | 58th Noteworthy Invention Prize: Mass spectrometry and ion source (Science and Technology Agency) |
| 1998.07 | SICE Technology Prize: Development of non-invasive brain function imaging technique using near infra-red light (The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japan (SICE)) |
| 1995.07 | JAMIT MIT Paper Award: Human brain function imaging during imagined movement using high-speed MRI (Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology (JAMIT)) |
| 1995.05 | JSMBE Awards - Kagaku Shinbun Prize (New Technology Development):Imaging of the human somato-sensory area using high-speed MRI (Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering (JSMBE)) |
| 1994.07 | 12th JAMIT Encouragement Prize: IHuman brain function imaging with high-speed MRI (JAMIT) |
| 1992.07 | SICE Technology Prize: Development of super-conducting magnet type magnetic resonance imaging system (SICE) |
| 1991.10 | MITI Good Design Awards - The Grand Prize in Medicine and Welfare: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Equipment (MRH-500) (Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Japan (MITI)) |
| 1990.01 | 20th Machine Design Awards - Minister of International Trade and Industry Prize: Hitachi superconducting magnetic resonance imaging system (MRH-500) (The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Ltd.) |
| 1988.12 | 1988.12 Certificate of Merit, The Radiological Society of North America |
| 1988.05 | JSMBE Awards - Kagaku Shinbun Prize (New Technology Development):MR Imaging Equipment (Hitachi G-50) (JSMBE) |
| 1985.04 | Fifty Best patents of Japan, Centennial Anniversary of the Patent System, Ministry of International Trade and Industry: Double beam atomic absorption spectrophotometer: Patent 1030510 |
| 1983.06 | National Invention Awards - The Prize of the Minister of State for Science & Technology: Polarized Zeeman Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (PZAA) and its instrumentation(JIII) |
| 1982.10 | Regional Invention Awards (Kanto Area) - The MITI Director General's Prize: Polarized Zeeman Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (PZAA) and its instrumentation (JIII) |
| 1981.09 | Promotion Prize of the Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry (JSAC) |
| 1977.10 | IR-100 Award: Development of the polarized Zeeman atomic absorption spectrometer (Industrial Research Magazine) |
| 1977.03 | 23rd Okochi Memorial Technology Prize for the development of the polarized Zeeman atomic absorption spectrometry. |
| 1976.04 | Commendation by the Minister of State for Science & Technology - Person of scientific and technological research merit: Research on atomic absorption spectrometry using the Zeeman effect (Science & Technology Agency, Japan (STA)) |
Patents & Papers:
Dr. Koizumi's work has contributed
to over 413 patent applications of which to date, 163 have resulted in
patents (74 in Japan and 89 overseas). He has published over 150 papers,
and has authored/co-authored/edited over 20 books.
