Hiroshi Komiyama

Hiroshi Komiyama is a Japanese scientist. He was the president of University of Tokyo from April 2005 to March 2009. He is also the chairman of Mitsubishi Research Institute. His major research fields are Chemical engineering, Environmental engineering, functional material science and CVD reaction engineering. He is member of the Scientific Board. When he was an undergraduate, he belonged to the American football club at University of Tokyo.

Biography

On December 15, 1944, he was born in Tochigi Prefecture.
In 1963, he graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan Toyama High School in Tokyo.
In 1967, he graduated the Chemical Engineering course of Engineering department, University of Tokyo.
In 1972, he got Ph.D. the School of Chemical Engineering, University of Tokyo
In December 1972, he was hired by University of Tokyo
In 1977, he became a lecturer at University of Tokyo
In 1981, he became Assistant Professor at University of Tokyo
In July 1988, he became a Professor at University of Tokyo
In April 2000, he became the head of Engineering Department at University of Tokyo
In 2002, he became the president of Society for Chemical Engineers of Japan.
In 2003, he became a vice president of University of Tokyo.
In 2005, he became the 28th president of University of Tokyo.
In 2013, he became a judge for the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.

Vision 2050: Roadmap for a Sustainable Earth, published by Springer Science+Business Media, 2008..
Structuring the Knowledge, published by Ōpun-narezzi, December 2004..
Technology to Sustain the Earth, published by Iwanami Shoten Publishing, December 1999..
Answering to the Issues of Global Warming, published by University of Tokyo Press, December 1999..