Members

Professor Dr. Hitoshi Washizu
Secretary: Ukiko Nomura
Asocciate Professor Dr. Daisuke Namekata(@Riken R-CCS, Cross Appointment)
Specially Appointed Lecturer: Dr. Le Van Sang
Specially Appointed Lecturer: Dr. Yoshiki Ishii
Researcher: Dr. Natsuko Sugimura (@Tokyo City Univ.)
Visiting Professor: Dr. Ryohei Seto (@Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Visiting Researcher: Dr. Go Uchida (@Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.)
Doctor Course 3d Grade: Naoki Yashiro (NTN Corp.)
Doctor Course 3d Grade: Eiji Tomiyama (RIST)
Doctor Course 3d Grade: Takashi Noda (NSK Corp.)
Doctor Course 2nd Grade: Yohei Shimizu (JTEKT Corp.)
Doctor Course 1st Grade: Hirotoshi Akiyama (NIPPON GREASE Co.,Ltd.)
Doctor Course 1st Grade: Le Nhu Minh Tue (MEXT scholarship student)
Doctor Course 1st Grade: Yuko Teramae
Master Course 2nd Grade: Mutsuki Honma
Master Course 2nd Grade: Ryoichi Katsukawa
Master Course 2nd Grade: Ryo Matsuoka
Master Course 1st Grade: Yosuke Hamano
Master Course 1st Grade: Kyosuke Kawakita
Master Course 1st Grade: Gentaro Sawai
GSC-ROOT Student Kana Nakatsuka (Josei Gakuen Senior High School)

2019 OB: Yuki Iike (MS), Yuko Teramae (MS), Rio Nakae (MS), Dr. Masaki Okoshi (Researcher, @RIST, ESICB Kyoto Univ.), Dr. Deboprasad Talukdar, Dr. Patrick A. Bonnaud (Researcher, @Tohoku Univ.), Dr. Manabu Yagi (Researcher, @RIKEN)
2018 OB: Soma Usui (MS), Taiki Kawate (MS), Kohei Nishikawa (MS), Gentaro Sawai (Kure National College of Technology), Taiyo Taniuchi (GSC-ROOT, The High School of University of Hyogo)
2017 OB: Hirotoshi Akiyama (MS), Masakazu Konishi (MS), Ryota Ashizawa (Hitachi, Ltd.)
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 R&D 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, Kazuo 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 (the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan) (with Grants)

2015- Research Center Professor at the Elements Strategy Initiative for Catalysts and Batteries (ESICB), Kyoto University.
2012-2015 Project Researcher, the Elements Strategy Initiative for Catalysts and Batteries (ESICB), 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
2017 Part-time Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering at Graduate School of Engineering, Tottori University
2016 Part-time Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering at Graduate School of Engineering, The 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
MMM2018 The 9th Multiscale Materials Modeling (MMM) conference, Symposium Organizer.
The Molecular Simulation Society of Japan
2014-2017, 2019- Board member
The Society of Polymer Science, Japan
2016- Board member of Research Group on Computational Polymer Science (RGCPS)
Japanese Society of Tribologists (JAST)
2019- Board Member
Technical Committee (Proposed by Member) Molecular Simulations for Tribology 2005- Organizer, 2016- Chair
Technical Committee (Proposed by Society) Applying AI to Tribology, 2020- Chair
2017- Associate editor of Tribology Online
2012-2014 Editorial Committee member, 2013 Secretary Editor
2013 Information Committee member
2015-2016 Award Committee member
2017-2018 Education Committee member
2017- Journal Committee member (Chair, Editor in chief)
2017- International Committee member (Vice-Chair)
Local Organizing Committee member of Tribology conferences 2008 Autumn, 2012 Spring, 2013 Spring
World Tribology Congress 2009, Session Organizer, Associate Solicitor
International Tribology Congress 2015, 2019, Session Organizer
The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
JSME-IIP/ASME-ISPS Joint Conference on Micromechatronics for Information and Precision Equipment (MIPE 2009, 2015, 2018), Session Organizer
2013-2014, 2016- Session Organizer of 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
Hyogo Prefectural Institute of Technology : Technology Advisor
GSC-Hyogo Kobe consortium comittee member (2019-)
New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, Japan (NEDO): Technology Committee member (2018-)

Awards

2004 Young Researcher Award, Japanese Society of Tribologists
2015 Paper award of TROL, Japanese Society of Tribologists
2016 Student award, Japanese Society of Tribologists (Mr. Tatsuya Maeda)
2017 The Best Poster Award, in 5th Malaysia-Japan Tribology Symposium (MJTS2017) (Mr. Masakazu Konishi)
2017 "The Best Poster Award" in 6th World Tribology Congress (WTC2017). (Mr. Hirotoshi Akiyama)
2017 "The Best Poster Award" in 6th World Tribology Congress (WTC2017). (Mr. Masakazu Konishi)
2018 The Best Poster Award, in Kansai Lubrication Round-Table Conference. (Mr. Kohei Nishikawa)
2018 The Best Poster Award, in 9th Autumn school of Tribology. (Mr. Kohei Nishikawa)
2018 Information, Intelligence and Precision Equipment Division, Certificate of Merit for Best Presentation, The Japan Scociety of Mechanical Engineers. (Mr. Kohei Nishikawa)
2018 Student award, Japanese Society of Tribologists (Mr. Kohei Nishikawa)
2019 The Best Poster Award, in 10th Autumn school of Tribology. (Mr. Mutsuki Honma)
2019 The Best Student Presentation Award, in 33d Meeting of Molecular Simulation Society of Japan. (Mr. Yohei Shimizu)
2019 Student award, Japanese Society of Tribologists (Mr. Yuki Iike)

Teaching

Elements of Computational Physics (Master Course, 2018-)
Elements of Computational Science (Master Course, 2016-2017)
Simulations for Practical Materials (Master Course, 2015-)
Fundamentals for Material Simulation (Doctor Course, 2016-)

Simulation and modeling of Natural and Social Phenomena (Bachelor Course, Department of Sicences, University of Hyogo, 2016-)
Micro Technology (Bachelor Course, Department of Engineering, University of Hyogo, 2017-)
Special Lecture in Mechanical Engineering (Master Course, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 2016)
Special Lecture in Mechanical Engineering (Master Course, Graduate School of Engineering, Tottori University, 2017)
Special Lecture in Micro-Nano System Engineering (Master Course, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, 2006-)