Toshikatsu Tanaka

Toshikatsu Tanaka received his PhD in materials science from Osaka University, Japan, in 1968. He is a research fellow at the IPS Research Center of Waseda University, Japan, and chair of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ) Committee on Nanocomposites. He was professor at Waseda University from 2002 to 2009; chair of the International Council on Large Electric Systems Working Group on Nanocomposites for six years from 2006; vice president at the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry from 1993 to 2002, where he worked for 38 years starting in 1964; visiting professor at Kyushu (National) University, Japan, from 1993 to 1997; visiting associate professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, from 1975 to 1976; and visiting lecturer at Salford University, UK, from 1970 to 1972. Dr. Tanaka is a recipient of the Japanese Ministry of Science and Technology Prize (2000), IEEJ Technology Progress Award (1988), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Whitehead Memorial Lecture Award (2001), IEEJ Inuishi Award (2001), and IEEE Dakin Award (2002). He is also an IEEE fellow and an IEEJ life fellow.