Dr. Hajime Okumura
"Innovation of Power Electronics by Novel Semiconductor Devices  
-- From Crystal Growth to Electric Power Converter --"

Position

Director, Advanced Power Electronics Research Center National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Academic Career

March, 1979
Bachelor degree of Kyoto University, Faculty of Science
March, 1981
Master degree of Kyoto University, Faculty of Science, Chemical Department
June, 1990
Doctor degree of Osaka University, Faculty of Engineering (by thesis submission)

Professional Career

April, 1981
Entrance to Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Materials Division
April, 2001
Team Leader, Device & Process Team 2,
Power Electronics Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
(re-organization of National Institutes)
July, 2002
Deputy Director, Power Electronics Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
April, 2008
Director, Energy Semiconductor Electronics Research Laboratory, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
April, 2010
Director, Advance Power Electronics Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Concurrent Professional Career

January, 1991 -- January, 1992
visiting researcher of Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique, University of Grenoble, France under the scholarship of French Government
April, 1992 -- March, 1993
technical staff of Industrial Science and Technology Program Office, Agency of Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI)
April, 2000 -- May, 2001
dispatched to R&D Association for Future Electron Devices General Manager of R&D Department
Director, Planning Office (from January, 2001)
April, 2000 --
Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering Science University of Tokyo
September, 2005 -- March, 2009
Chief Research Officer, ESICAT-Japan, LLP
April, 2006 -- March, 2013
Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering
Saitama University
April, 2013 --
Professor, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Science Tsukuba University (Power Electronics Course)

Speciality

Materials Science
Compound Semiconductors
Crystal Growth and device application of widegap semiconductors