Members

Prof. Dr. Hitoshi Washizu

Secretary: Ukiko Nomura

Research Lecturer: Dr. Le Van Sang

PD fellow: Dr. Natsuko Sugimura (@Tokyo City Univ.)

Doctor Course 2nd Grade: Naoki Yashiro (NTN Corp.)

Co-researcher: Ryota Ashizawa (Hitachi, Ltd.)

Co-researcher: Eiji Tomiyama (RIST)

Master Course 2nd Grade: Hirotoshi Akiyama

Master Course 2nd Grade: Masakazu Konishi

Master Course 1st Grade: Soma Usui

Master Course 1st Grade: Taiki Kawade

Master Course 1st Grade: Kohei Nishikawa

Research student: Yuko Teramae

2016 OB: Tatsuya Maeda (MS) , Ryo Okawa (MS, Yasuda Lab.)

Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. Hitoshi Washizu

Graduate School of Simulation Studies, University of Hyogo

Positions

• 2015- Professor, Graduate School of Simulation Studies, University of Hyogo
• 2012-2015 Senior Researcher, Leader, Washizu Research Group, Frontier Research Center, Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc.
• 2001-2012 Researcher, Tribology Lab., Toyota Central RD Labs., Inc.
• 2001 Editor, Baifukan Co., Ltd. (Publisher of Science & Technologies)

Academic Degrees

• 2001 Ph. D. in Polymer Physicalchemistry, Kazuo Kikuchi Laboratory, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo
• 1998 MS in Polymer Physicalchemistry, Kikuchi Laboratory, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo
• 1996 BS in Biophysics, Yoshimi Tsuchiya Laboratory, School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology
• 1989 Chigusa High School, Aichi Prefecture

Project Researcher at MEXT (with Grants)

• 2015- Research Center Professor at Element Strategy for Catalysis and Battery (ESICB), Kyoto Univ.
• 2012- Project Researcher of the Elements Strategy Initiative for Catalysts and Batteries (ESICB) at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
• 2007-2011 Co-researcher at the Next-generation Supercomputer System Project, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan
• 2003-2006 Co-researcher at the National Research Grid Initiative (NAREGI) Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan

Part-time Lecturer etc

• 2006- Part-time Lecturer of Micro-nano System Engineering at Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University
• 2016 Part-time Lecturer of Mehanical Engineering at Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo
• 2014 Special Lecture at Graduate School of Engineering, Keio University
• 2004-2011 Special Lecture at Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo City University
• 1996 Teaching Assistant, School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo

Academic Societies

• American Chemical Society Referee of J. Am. Chem. Soc.
• Royal Society of Chemistry Referee of Chem. Sci.
• Materials Research Society Invited lecture at MRS 2008
• The Molecular Simulation Society of Japan
  2014- Board member
• The Society of Polymer Science, Japan
  2016- Board member of Research Group on Computational Polymer Science (RGCPS)
• Japanese Society of Tribologists
  Technical Committee (The 3d category) Molecular Simulations for Tribology 2005- Organizer, 2016- Chair
  2017- Associate editor of Tribology Online
  2012-2014 Editorial Committee member, 2013 Secretary Editor
  2013 Information Comittee member
  2015-2016 Comittee member
  2017- Education Comittee member
  2017- International Comittee member
  Local Organizing Comittee member of Tribology conferences 2008 Autumn, 2012 Spring, 2013 Spring
  World Tribology Congress 2009, Session Organizer, Associate Solicitor
  International Tribology Congress 2015, Session Organizer
• The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
  JSME-IIP/ASME-ISPS Joint Conference on Micromechatronics for Information and Precision Equipment (MIPE 2009, 2015), Session Organizer
  2013-2014 Session Organizer of Softmatter Inovation at Anual meetings
  2012- Organizer at Micro-Nano Engineering Simposium
• The Surface Science Society of Japan
  Member of the branch of the Science of Friction, Lecturer at the civil lecture in Chubu
• Society of Computer Chemistry, Japan

Awards

• 2004 Young Researcher Award, Japanese Scociety of Tribologists
• 2015 Paper award of TROL, Japanese Society of Tribologists
• 2016 Student award, Japanese Society of Tribologists (Mr. Tatsuya Maeda)

Teaching

• Elements of Computational Science (Master Course)
• Simulations for Practical Materials (Master Course)
• Fundamentals for Material Simulation (Doctor Course)


• Simulation and modeling of Natural and Social Phenomena (Bachelor Course, Department of Sicences, University of Hyogo)
• Special Lecture in Mechanical Engineering (Master Course, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)
• Special Lecture in Micro-Nano System Engineering (Master Course, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University)

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