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
