Teruo Fujii
Teruo Fujii | |
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藤井 輝夫 | |
| 31st President of the University of Tokyo | |
| Assumed office April 2021–present | |
| Preceded by | Makoto Gonokami |
| Director General of the Institute of Industrial Science | |
| In office 2015–2018 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 5, 1964 Zürich, Switzerland |
| Nationality |  Japanese |
| Residence | Tokyo, Japan |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
| Occupation | University professor Researcher |
Teruo Fujii (藤井 輝夫, Fujii Teruo, born 5 April 1964) is a Japanese professor of Engineering and Applied Microfluidic Systems in University of Tokyo, and since 2007 as a professor at the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) of the university (Director General of the institute from 2015 to 2018 ) has been conducting research on Microfluidics.[a] He received his Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Tokyo (1993). Fujii was also Co-director of LIMMS-CNRS/IIS, a joint research lab between CNRS, France, and IIS, from 2007 to 2014.He served as the President of The Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society(CBMS).
Since April 2021, Fujii has been 31th president of the University of Tokyo, after succeeding Makoto Gonokami who retired in 2021, and about six months after taking office, he will formulate an action policy for running the University of Tokyo during his term in the 2020s (tentative name "To the Sea of Dialogue and Creation").[1]
When Fujii took office as President of the UTokyo, he set "Diversity & Inclusion" as one of the pillars to formulate new action guidelines, and made an epoch-making personnel affairs in which the composition of directors of the new executive department (including the president) is a majority of women.[2]
Fujii has served as an executive member of the Cabinet Office's Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (CSTI) since 2021.[3]
His hobbies during his school days are music performance (especially fusion music, AOR[disambiguation needed]) and swimming.[4]
Notes[]
a. ^ Fujii says that his motivation for Microfluidic Devices research was that when he was a senior research scientist at RIKEN in the late 1990s, his boss encouraged him to find a new research field.[4]
References[]
- ^ "List of University Presidents". www.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
- ^ "Board of Directors". www.u-tokyo.ac.jp. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
- ^ "Members of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation". Cabinet Office Home Page. Retrieved 2021-06-20. However, when I accessed the website on June 20, 2021, it was still the version of October. 1st, 2020 (Provisional Translation), and the subsequent revisions had not yet been made. The Japanese version of the website was revised as of April 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Questions and Answers with New President Fujii". ja:学内広報. #1545: 4. 2021-04-22. Retrieved 2021-06-20.
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