Distinguished Invited University Professor


Sumio Iijima

Education

1963 University of Electro-communications, Tokyo, Bachelor of Engineering
1965 Tohoku University, Sendai, Majoring in Physics; M.S.
1968 Tohoku University, Sendai, Majoring in Physics; Ph.D.

Appointments

1968-1974 Research Associate, Research Institute for Scientific Measurements, Tohoku University, Sendai
1970-1977 Research Associate, Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
1977-1982 Senior Research Associate, Center for Solid State Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
1979.3-1979.9 Visiting Senior Scientist, Department of Metallurgy and Materials Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
1982-1987 Group Leader, ERATO Program, Research Development Corporation of Japan, Nagoya
1987- Senior Research Fellow, NEC Corporation, Tsukuba
1998-2002 Research Director, JST/ICORP "Nanotubulites" Project Tsukuba and Nagoya
1998- Professor, Meijo University, Nagoya
2001- Director, Nanotube Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba
2002-2006 Project Reader, NEDO "Advanced Nanocarbon Application Project"
2003-2008 Research Director, JST/SORST Iijima Team
2005- Dean, Sungkyunkwan University Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT)
2006- Project Reader, NEDO "Carbon Nanotube Capacitor Development Project"

Awards and Honors
1976 Bertram Eugene Warren Diffraction Physics Award, The American Crystallography Society
1985 Nishina Memorial Prize
1996 Asahi Prize
2002 J.C.McGroddy Prize for New Materials, American Physical Society
2002 Agilent Europhysics Prize, European Physical Society
2002 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, The Franklin Institute
2002 Japan Academy Prize and Imperial Prize
2003 Person of Cultural Merit
2007 Gregori Aminoff Prize in crystallography 2007, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
2007 Fujiwara Award, The Fujihara Foundation of Science
2007 Foreign Associate, The National Academy of Sciences
2007 2007 Balzan Prize for Nanoscience, International Balzan Prize Foundation
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