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Creation of New Methods for Measurement and Their Applications

Posted: Sep. 11, 2014

Award Recipient: Dr. Hideaki Koizumi Dr. Sc. Fellow (Corporate Officer), Hitachi, Ltd.

Hideaki Koizumi, the recipient of the 2013 Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) Award, has strived to address environmental problems, healthcare, welfare and education from the perspectives of chemistry, physics and analytical chemistry for Human Security and Well-being. He has created various measurement methods that are essential for accurately and objectively obtaining facts to tackle the challenge of measuring important information that used to be impossible to measure. He created a new principle and, harnessing cutting-edge technologies, established it as a new measurement methodology. Furthermore, he and his collaborators have conducted actual applications for the new measurement equipment in various fields such as environment, healthcare, biotechnology and brain- and neuroscience. Through his work on brain function measurement, for example, he developed new measurement equipment and extended applications to learning and education. Dr. Koizumi has consistently dedicated his research of more than 30 years to the creation of a new transdisciplinary field.
As a member of an industry, Dr. Koizumi engaged in the commercialization of his products, helping to release new products worldwide while exploring new engineering fields. He not only led intra-company development projects but also large-scale national projects as area director and project director of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), an independently administered corporation.