■Name

Sumio Iijima Ph.D
(Research fields:Nano Science, Materials Science, Electron Microscopy, Crystallography, Solid-state Physics)

■Affiliation

Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Meijo University
 <another post>Director, AIST/Nanotube Research Center
 <another post>Distinguished Invited University Professor, Nagoya University
 <another post>Senior Research Fellow, NEC Corporation

■Academy

Foreign Associates, National Academy of Sciences
Foreign Member, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Member, The Japan Academy
Foreing Member, The Chinese Academy of Sciences

■Job history

1968-1974: Research Associate, Research Institute for Scientific Measurements, Tohoku University
1970-1982: Senior Research Associate, Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
(1979): Visiting Senior Scientist, Department of Metallurgy and Materials
1982-1987: Group Leader, ERATO Program, Research Development Corporation of Japan
1987-present: Senior Research Fellow, NEC Corporation
1998-present: Professor, Meijo University, Nagoya
2001-present: Director, AIST/Nanotube Research Center, Tsukuba
2005-present: Dean, Sungkyunkwan University Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT)
2007-present: Distinguished Invited University Professor, Nagoya University

■Honorary post

<Foreign>
2000:Fellow, The American Physical Society
2001:Honorary Fellowship, Royal Microscopy Society
2002:Honorary Doctor, The University of Antwerp
2003:Honorary Doctor, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
2005:Honorary Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong University
2005:Honorary Professor, Peking University
2009:Fellow, Microscopy Society of America
2009:Honorary Professor, Tsinghua University
2010:Honorary Professor, Zhejiang University
2010:Honorary Professor, Southeast University

<Japan>
2002:Honorary Member, The Crystallographic Society of Japan
2004:Honorary Member, The Japanese Society of Microscopy
2007:Fellow, The Japan Society of Applied Physics
2009:Honorary Member, The Chemical Society of Japan
2009:Distinguished Professor, The University of Electro-Communications
etc.